Aviation companies have flocked to Shanghai this week for the Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition as they look toward Chinese businesses and wealthy individuals to offset slumping demand for private jets in the...
China celebrated the start of the Year of the Dragon with the customary televisual extravaganza and barrage of fireworks, as well as a less traditional burst of record-breaking microblog traffic. 481,207 messages were posted to...
The much-discussed dinner for Chinese millionaires hosted by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett happened last night in a chateau on the outskirts of Beijing. From Today Online: Mr Buffett and Mr Gates, who have already persuaded 40...
Reuters reports on the dinner for China’s millionaires hosted by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet: Bill Gates and Warren Buffett will host a dinner for a select band of Chinese billionaires on Wednesday to promote giving,...
The Wall Street Journal reports that 1989 student leader-cum-hedge fund manager Li Lu is a candidate to succeed Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway: Twenty-one years ago, Li Lu was a student leader of the Tiananmen Square...
Fortune Magazine has a lengthy article about Chinese electric car maker BYD and the decision by Warren Buffett to violate his own rules of investing and buy a 10% stake in it: Last fall Berkshire Hathaway bought 10% of BYD for...
Warren Buffett, who recently has made headlines in the U.S. for his investment in a beleaguered Goldman Sachs, is also showing his faith in Chinese innovation and renewable energy by investing in a Chinese electric car...
On his “How the World Works” blog, Andrew Leonard connects the dots between Darfur, PetroChina and Warren Buffett: So let’s put this all together. The price of oil hits a record high. A Chinese oil company may soon become the largest corporation on the planet. And violence directed against Chinese oil companies in Africa is […]
Mia Farrow has written another op-ed in the Wall Street Journal (with Nobel Prize winner Jody Williams), this time holding Warren Buffett and PetroChina responsible for the violence in Darfur: Mr. Buffett points out that only PetroChina’s parent company, China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), operates in Sudan. Since subsidiaries generally do not have control over […]
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