HK suspends UBS sponsor license for IPO ...
Hong Kong's securities regulator banned UBS from leading initial public offerings (IPOs) in the city for a year, while fining it and rivals including Morgan Stanley a combined 100 million U.S. dollar
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HK suspends UBS sponsor license for IPO ...
Hong Kong's securities regulator banned UBS from leading initial public offerings (IPOs) in the city for a year, while fining it and rivals including Morgan Stanley a combined 100 million U.S. dollar
UN, partners launch 296 mln USD aid plan...
UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations and its humanitarian aid partners on Wednesday launched a 296 million U.S. dollar appeal to aid 2.3 million people in need of humanitarian aid i
Zimbabwe gov't releases 100 mln USD for ...
HARARE, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The Zimbabwe government has so far released 100 million U.S. dollars to assist victims of Cyclone Idai which hit the country in mid-March. The government initially disbur
Chinese medical facilities see improveme...
BEIJING, March 27 (Xinhua) -- The anesthesia-related mortality rate in China has decreased to 12 per 1 million people, close to that in developed countries, which is 10 per million, China Central Tel
Sources: Y Combinator’s growth fun...
Just 5 months after announcing £85 million in Series E funding, Monzo is already gearing up to raise additional funding, which would almost double its valuation.As reported in the Sunday Times yesterd
China toughens restrictions on court ord...
Nearly 12.9 million people had been placed on a credit blacklist for defaulting on their court orders by the end of 2018, according to a white paper released by the Supreme People's Court (SPC). Def
China to be world's biggest 5G market wi...
China will become the world's largest 5G market, with 460 million users of the next-generation superfast network by 2025, China daily reported Thursday, citing a report given by the Global System fo
UN: Millions of Afghans face starvation ...
UNITED NATIONS, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Some 13.5 million people in Afghanistan are severely food insecure, with 3.6 million of them facing emergency levels of hunger, just one step from famine, as the
Romantic film "More than Blue" leads Chi...
Romantic film "More than Blue" directed by Gavin Lin remained the highest grossing film on the Chinese mainland in the week ending March 24, China Film News reported Tuesday. The film, which has gro
"Bumblebee" continues to lead Chinese bo...
Paramount's "Bumblebee" has continued to lead the Chinese mainland box office, for the second straight week, China Film News said Tuesday. The science fiction action film has raked in around 708 mill
Alibaba creates over 40 mln jobs in 2018
HANGZHOU, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba created about 40.82 million jobs last year via its expansive retail ecosystem, up 10.9 percent year on year, a recent report showed. The
Ukraine receives 602-mln-USD loan under ...
KIEV, March 1 (Xinhua) -- Ukraine has raised a loan worth 529 million euro (about 602 million U.S. dollars) through Deutsche Bank under the guarantees provided by the International Bank for Reconstru
China busts oil-smuggling network, detai...
NANJING, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Customs authorities in east China's Jiangsu Province have busted a major network involved in smuggling about 46,000 tonnes of oil worth 232 million yuan (34.5 million U.
Iran's non-oil trade with Africa down by...
TEHRAN, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Iran traded 1.86 million tons of non-oil commodities worth 672.26 million U.S. dollars with the African countries during the first 10 months of the current Iranian fiscal
11 prosecuted over fish swim bladder smu...
GUANGZHOU, March 7 (Xinhua) -- A total of 11 people have been prosecuted in south China's Guangdong Province for smuggling fish swim bladders worth more than 800 million yuan (119 million U.S. dollar
Indian official says new health scheme w...
MUMBAI, March 11 (Xinhua) -- India's new health scheme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year will make healthcare financing more equitable, the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Natio
Australian authorities stub out illegal ...
SYDNEY, March 15 (Xinhua) -- A 48-year-old man in Western Australia has faced court on Friday, charged with allegedly smuggling over 810,000 illegal cigarettes, a ton of molasses tobacco and other pr
Chinese telescope collects more than 11 ...
BEIJING, March 29 (Xinhua) -- China has released 11.25 million spectra of celestial objects acquired by the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) to astronomers worldwide
Vietnam's motorbike import rises 41.5 pc...
HANOI, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam spent 114 million U.S. dollars importing motorbikes, components and spare parts in the first two months of this year, surging 41.5 percent against the same period l
Report: NBA releases salary cap for next...
The NBA informed its 30 teams of the salary cap and the luxury tax line for the next two seasons: respectively 109 million U.S. dollars and 132 million for the 2019-20 season; 116 million U.S. dollar