China Construction America Ordered to Pay US$1.6 Billion and Conflict of Political Interests Behind

A New York court has ordered China Construction America Inc. (CCA), a subsidiary of Chinese state-owned China State Construction Engineering, to pay US$1.6 billion to BML Properties, the original owner of the Baha Mar casino resort in the Bahamas, after the contractor was found to have committed “many acts of fraud” during its takeover of […]

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Chinese Gov’t Asks Top Banks to Provide Over US$84 billion to Rescue Real Estate Sector

China’s financial regulators have asked its six largest banks to provide 600 billion yuan (US$84.32 billion) of financial support in any form including mortgages, loans to developers, and purchases of their bonds, to help recover the real estate sector. Bloomberg News reported on 30 September that this is the latest scheme after a series of […]

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