There is a great article today by Sky Canaves (great name, also) in the Wall Street Journal looking at the rise and rise of Ping An Insurance from a humble bicycle insurer in Shenzhen in 1988 to the leading light in China's effort to develop financial conglomerates to rival the world's biggest.As the government breaks down silos between banking, insu...

Energy was in the headlines this week as the draft of China's first energy law continued its slow progress through government. The law was supposed to be finalized by the end of last year and it can’t come soon enough.The lack of progress mirrors the lack of progress China has made on a disparate raft of new energy regulations and targets introduce...