Archive for August, 2006

China Top 10 Companies & China Top 20 Brands

China Top 10 Companies

Rank 2005

Rank 2006

Company

Revenue(US$ Bil)

Market Value (US$ Bil)

1

1

China Petroleum & Chemical

98.98

50.05

2

2

Petro China

68.40

146.48

3

3

China Mobil (HK)

30.10

93.80

4

4

China Telekom

20.97

29.72

11

5

Baoshan Iron & Stell

15.68

8.94

*

6

China Construction Bank

14.44

78.17

25

7

Lenovo Group

13.25

3.36

6

8

China Life Insurance

12.16

23.62

7

9

China Netcom Group (HK)

10.80

10.66

5

10

China United Telecommunications

9.43

7.35

(Source: Fortune Magazine) (Business Time(30/8/06)

Those Chinese companies in the petroleum and telecommunication, financial services industries are farely pretty well.
Some interesting notes:

China Petroleum and Chemical retained its [...]

August 30, 2006   Posted in: ASIA PACIFIC REGION, Branding  No Comments

Vietnam: An Investment Opportunity

Reported in The Business Time (28/08/06), Vietnam’s ambassador to Malaysia, Nguyen Quoc Dung and former bank governor Cao Si Kiem and others recently gave a talk in KL pertaining to the viability of Vietnam to the potential Malaysian investors.

Append below some noteworthy facts that might be of  interest to some of the Malaysian [...]

August 28, 2006   Posted in: ASIA PACIFIC REGION, Vietnam  No Comments

Common Currency Basket For East Asia Proposed

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At the  Network of East Asian Think-Tanks (Neat)’s  meeting chairman Datuk Seri Mohamed Jawhar Hassan advised that a  COMMON currency basket, similar to that used in the European Union (EU), has been proposed for East Asian countries.
 The common currency basket is one of the [...]

August 23, 2006   Posted in: Forex Management  No Comments

Comparison of No of REITS in Singapore and Malaysia.

I have been following up with REITs development in Malaysia in this blog.
Interestingly, many Malaysian companies are now on the bands wagon of establishing REIT as part of their corporate strategy. (Refer to the reasons in my earlier article)

Compared to Singapore, as at 22/8/06, the below statistic showed Singapore has 13 Reits compared to Malaysia [...]

August 23, 2006   Posted in: Activity-Based Costing  No Comments

351 Chinese Mainland Companies Listed On HKEx

An interesting fact on the latest update of Chinese mainland companies listed on the Hong Kong Exchange:
 
Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing Limited (HKEx) said that:

by the end of July, 2006, a total of 351 Chinese mainland enterprises had been listed on the HKEx;
Out of the 351 mainland companies, 272 are listed on the main board [...]

August 14, 2006   Posted in: ASIA PACIFIC REGION  No Comments

Updates on KPJ Healthcare’s REIT- AL-‘Aqar KPJ REIT

KPJ Healthcare Bhd, the healthcare subsidiary of Johor Corp (JCorp) which has Malaysia’s first Islamic Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) called Al-’Aqar KPJ REIT has listed it on 10th August 2006.
KPJ Healthcare manages 19 specialist hospitals locally and abroad, and a private nursing college. Its overseas operations include three specialist hospitals in Indonesia and one [...]

August 13, 2006   Posted in: Activity-Based Costing  No Comments

Government Owned Amanah Raya Plans REIT Listing

AMANAH Raya Bhd (ARB) expects to list its real estate investment trust (REIT) – the first by a government-owned company on Bursa Malaysia in October this year.
Chief executive officer Datuk Ahmad Rodzi Pawanteh

Securities Commission has given approval to inject eight properties with an estimated value of RM300 million to RM350 million into the REIT and
Called [...]

August 10, 2006   Posted in: Activity-Based Costing  No Comments


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