Follow the Money December 13th, 2011 Gerry O’Kane The cleantech business must be worrying what the news of Haitong Securities pulling its USD1.7 billion Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) on the grounds of poor market conditions, will do to their prospects.Guodian Technology and Environment Group, a maker of wind equipment, will price its...
CleanBiz.Asia, November 11, 2011 By: Gerry O’Kane There has been a flurry of announcements from the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) market, indicating a renewed interest in a “sustainable” goldmine that was worth about USD48.8 billion last year for China alone. One of the developments has been a new database from British researchers. Last week...
Follow the Money Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 By: Gerry O’Kane One simply cannot ignore the Burma/China debate over the Myitsone hydropower plant project, which the Burmese president Thein Sein cancelled unexpectedly earlier this month. The story has the cynics guffawing in the aisles. On the one hand you have a Chinese state administration spluttering...
Follow the Money CleanBiz Asia, Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 It seems not even the prestige of winning, not one, but two high-profile contracts to provide fleets of electric buses to Singapore and Frankfurt could help Chinese rechargeable battery and auto maker BYD Company raise what it expected from the Shenzhen markets. As CleanBiz.Asia pointed...
