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Pre-nuptial agreements seem like a cynical way to start a marriage: determining in advance who will be entitled to what in the event of divorce. But if a marriage does break down, the pre-nup can at least remove the additional stress of having to ...
One of the reasons given by Hugo Barra – who now heads Facebook’s virtual reality division Oculus – for leaving smartphone maker Xiaomi was that living in Beijing “has taken a huge toll on my life and started affecting my ...
Panicky headlines that vast areas of Australian farmland were going under the hammer to Chinese buyers turned out to be wide of the mark last year when a government study revealed that just 0.38% of agricultural land was under Chinese ...
Before China’s economic reforms began in 1978, Shenzhen was a small village bordering the much larger metropolis of British-governed Hong Kong. According to Chen Bingan, the author of The Great Exodus to Hong Kong, millions of Chinese crossed ...
Looking back on last year, Chinese developers will be celebrating a dramatic change of fortune. Because of various homebuying curbs, many began the year struggling financially. Then policymakers started to stimulate the market, leading home ...
China has experienced – and survived – its fair share of housing booms and busts. Jim Chanos, a famous shortseller, once described the 2010 bubble as “Dubai times 1,000 – or worse”. The current fervour has caught even some local ...
Alice Poon spent nearly two decades in Hong Kong’s real estate industry, including a long spell as personal assistant to the founder of its biggest developer, Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP). That made her something of an insider and in 2005, ...
In November 2013, Guangzhou Evergrande became the first Chinese football club to win the Asian Champions League. Right after popping the champagne, its players and the head coach – Marcello Lippi – were ushered to a press conference to launch ...
One widely circulated joke on China’s internet goes like this: a man says to his girlfriend, “Once home prices fall, I will buy a house and marry you.” Instantly, her heart breaks because she knows they will never be together. With home ...
Before becoming a real estate developer, Sunac China’s chairman Sun Hongbin began his career at Liu Chuanzhi’s computer firm Lenovo (then known as Legend). Sun joined in the same year as Yang Yuanqing, now chairman of Lenovo, but back then ...