Here are some news links for your pleasure:
"Shanghai considers allowing multinationals to list"
-- Coke, HSBC and Siemens as potential companies to be listed in Shanghai. New competition for Hong Kong Stock Exchange?
"Chinese Small Cap Speculators Wiped Out"
-- Speculators in small cap Chinese stocks are finally getting "smashed" after stocks bubbled up in September. Familiar stocks corrected themselves.
"Rumor: China's "Facebook" Completing 2nd Round Of Investment"
-- Zhanzuo.com completed second round of fundraising at US $7.2 million in November. Rumor that Facebook will acquire Zhanzuo.com.
"Just fancy that!"
-- Hong Kong newspapers are ambivalent over whether local district council polls were successful or not.
"Asean Steps Up China Free-Trade Talks as Deal With India Stalls"
-- Chinese trade with ASEAN countries is about 7x that of India's. Group believes trade concessions with China is more important than that with India, Japan and Australia.
-- China may consider widening the yuan's floating band, one of many tools the country is considering to make the currency more flexible, said central bank governor.
"Seeking truth from facts"
-- How poor and small is China? An economist believes that China's economy is 40% smaller than current estimates, and 300 million people live below the poverty line.
"China TV Strikes Gold In Olympic-Ad Auction"
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