Shenzhen Informer

Shenzhen stock exchange building: inside China's 'miniskirt' Just 35 years ago, Shenzhen in southern China was a small fishing village. Then everything changed: in 1979, it was designated the unlikely site of the nation's first Special Economic Zone. After years of quiet subsistence, the village was turned into … Read more on The Guardian (blog)

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China's Shenzhen Sets June 17 as Start of Carbon Emissions Trading China's Shenzhen, a Special Economic Zone, will start its carbon emissions trading on June 17, its Mayor Qin Xu said in an interview with a local newspaper. View Full Image. REUTERS Australia has launched over the weekend its first clean coal carbon … Read [...]

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China's premier electronics design show IIC-China opens today in Shenzhen … SHENZHEN, China, Feb. 28, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ — Global Sources (NASDAQ: GSOL) announced that the 18th International IC-China Conference & Exhibition (IIC-China) opens today at the Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center in Shenzhen, China's … Read more on The Herald | HeraldOnline.com

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China's Essence Financial Building ditches traditional form for better function Dutch architectural firm OMA recently won a design competition for the Essence Financial Building in Shenzhen, China, with a concept that abandons western conventions for more contemporary ideas. Among other attributes, the plans call for shifting the … Read more on Gizmag

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China's Li Na cruises to Shenzhen quarters AFP – Chinese tennis star Li Na cruised through to the quarter-finals of the Shenzhen Open on Wednesday with a straight sets victory over American Julia Cohen. The 2011 French Open singles winner and top seed took one hour and 34 minutes to defeat … Read more on [...]

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Xi Jingping's Weekend Getaway May Have Been China's Trip Of The Decade Xi Jinping, head of China's Communist Party and set to become president in March, took just made a jaunt down to Shenzhen, a medium-sized city just outside Hong Kong in the southern part of China. It may prove the most important weekend getaway [...]

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China's Shenzhen Hepalink takes 10% stake in ProMetic; signs research deal ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (TSX:PLI) is moving to expand its presence in Asia through strategic agreements that will see China's Shenzhen Hepalink Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. take a 10 per cent interest in the company. Quebec-based ProMetic said Tuesday … Read more on CanadianBusiness.com

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China's best golfers to take on rest of Asia-Pacific China's best golfers will take on a rest of the Asia-Pacific team in the second edition of the Dongfeng Nissan Cup under the OneAsia umbrella in Shenzhen next month. The Ryder Cup-style event was held for the first time last year when the Asia-Pacific … Read [...]

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China's TCL May Acquire Stake in Taiwan's Chunghwa Picture Tubes A delegation led by executives of Shenzhen China Star is said to visit Chunghwa Picture Tubes in the coming days to begin talks with the latter's chairman and president on the stake-buying issue. If coming true with official approval, the deal will … Read more [...]

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China's oil painting village feels global shift Dafen oil painting village is one of the Shenzhen's key attractions, well known to mainland and foreign visitors. It built its reputation on the ability of its estimated 5,000 artists to paint cheap, well-executed copies of famous Western paintings … Read more on BBC News

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Labour groups booted out of China's tech boom town The Special Economic Zone of Shenzhen is home to one of China's biggest technology manufacturing hubs, but workers' rights are often forgotten and employment regulations violated in the rush to produce greater and greater quantities at lower cost … Read more on Register

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GIE Opens an Online Store on China's Biggest E-commerce Platform Taobao.com In 2010, the Company moved its headquarters from Vancouver, Canada to Shenzhen, China, where it continued to focus on research and development of its technology platforms and service solutions. As a research and development company, ANVS … Read more on Sacramento Bee

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GIE Opens An Online Store On China's Biggest E-commerce Platform Taobao.com SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — GIE opened an online store on Taobao.com, China's biggest e-commerce platform, in August 2012 in an effort to make shopping comfortable. Click on the online shop's link at … Read more on Daily Markets

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China's Former Ghetto, Shenzhen and Qianhai, Now Booming Into Metropolises Shenzhen, a city in the most southern part of China–and about an hour north of Hong Kong–is fast shredding its image as a crime-ridden, ghetto town and becoming a booming metropolis. Long known as the city to go to for shady "massages", bootleg … Read [...]

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Shenzhen Passes China's First Anti-Gender Discrimination Law Aug. 23 –The Standing Committee of the Fifth People's Congress of Shenzhen Municipality passed the “Regulation of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone on the Promotion of Gender Equity (Announcement [2012] No.89, hereinafter referred to as 'Regulation')” … Read more on China Briefing

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