Written by: Zoey Ye Zhang, Asia Briefing, Dezan Shira & Associates The 2019 editions of China’s National and FTZ Negative Lists and FI Encouraged Catalogue are important supplements to the upcoming Foreign Investment Law. China Briefing explains the new changes and identifies the industries where China restricts or encourages foreign investments. On June 30, 2019, …
AustCham, in partnership with Takungpao.com, invites you to attend the “2019 Newcastle International Half Marathon”on 6th October, 2019. This event will feature a 21km run along the stunning coast of Newcastle-just north of Sydney-in New South Wales, Australia. 中国澳大利亚商会与大公网诚邀您参加“2019澳大利亚－纽卡斯尔国际半程马拉松”。本次活动将于2019年10月6日在澳大利亚新南威尔士州，纽卡斯尔市举行。参赛者将沿纽卡斯尔市风景秀丽的海岸线进行21公里的马拉松比赛。 Newcastle is a beautiful coastal city in north New South Wales. It is approximately two hours …
Through its daily Out-Law service, international law firm Pinsent Masons brings us the latest news and analysis on concerning Asia-Pacific matters, including infrastructure developments in the Phillipines and Indonesia, new energy expansions in Vietnam, and upcoming changes brought on by the G20 meeting. You can find these updates via our Member News section, or from …
Written by Out-Law, Pinsent MasonsVietnam is set for an expansion of its wind energy industry, with more than 1GW of capacity expected to be installed by 2021 according to a market intelligence report from the Global wind energy council (GWEC). The report ‘South-East Asia Market Update: Insights on Vietnam’ suggested that Vietnam has some of the …
Written by Out-Law, Pinsent Masons Japan’s international development agency, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), still has 900 billion yen ($8.32bn) remaining of the 1.3 trillion yen it has pledged to lend to support the development of the Philippine railway system. The Japanese government, through JICA, had previously allocated the funding to the Philippines to build more …
Written by Out-Law, Pinsent MasonsIndonesian president Joko Widodo has announced plans to spend $70 billion on toll roads connecting Indonesia to other countries. The plans involve building 5,400 kilometres of fee-charging highways by 2024 tripling the size of the current network, according to Bloomberg. The government has said that it wants to make it much easier …
Written by Out-Law, Pinsent Masons Five new digital bank licences are to be issued to firms in Singapore, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has announced. The five new digital bank licences include two types of bank licences, according to MAS. Two will be digital full bank licences and the remaining three, digital wholesale bank …
Written by: Out-Law, Pinsent Masons Finance leaders from G20 countries agreed new principles last week to make sure that infrastructure debt is sustainable to avoid the build-up of huge debt. According to Reuters the G20 finance leaders endorsed the G20 Principles for Quality Infrastructure Investment as their “common strategic direction and high aspiration” during a …
In today’s talking points, Ping An Technology believes AI is the key to advancing healthcare, and have developed a partnership with Everbright Bank to expand into ‘healthcare finance’. Poor rural areas in China can expect to gain access to basic healthcare, and WA is accelerating commercialisation of digital healthcare research. Ping An Technology CEO believes …
In today’s talking points, Australian woodchip prices are up and Qu Dongyu takes on the head of UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation. Demand from China drives Australian woodchip prices up Australian woodchip has enjoyed rising prices for the past few years, which has peaked at the current price for Tasmanian blue gum (woodchip) at US$182 …