Latest China Headlines
All the headlines from our China Topic Page, ordered by recency.
China Extends Airline Terrorism Coverage
Nov 26 2002 // The Chinese government announced on Monday that it was extending insurance coverage of war and terrorist risks for the country’s airlines for an additional month, until December 24, 2002. The coverage was first made...
China Party Congress May Ease Rules for Foreign Insurers
Nov 12 2002 // The Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, currently being held in Beijing, is expected to result in the retirement of many of the party’s present leaders, and the inauguration of a new generation, generally...
China Admits Three More Foreign Insurers
Nov 4 2002 // Chinese regulators have given the green light to three more foreign companies to set up operations in the country. Licenses have been approved for the U.S. Liberty Mutual, the U.K.’s Standard Life, and a company...
HSBC to Acquire 10% Stake in China’s Ping An Insurance
Oct 9 2002 // The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank (HSBC) has agreed to take a 10 percent stake in Ping An Insurance, China’s second largest insurer for $600 million. U.S. investment banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley already have...
EU, China Plan to End Airline Insurance Next Month
Sep 24 2002 // The European Union plans to to end the emergency coverage it has granted to the community’s airline’s for terrorist liability by the end of October, while China’s government announced that it would extend...
CIGNA Receives Chinese Insurance License
Sep 18 2002 // CIGNA Corporation announced that it has received formal approval to enter the Chinese life insurance market from the China Insurance Regulatory Commission, the first new license issued to a foreign insurer by the Chinese...
Heavy Rains Raise Flood Fears in Southern China
Aug 20 2002 // Torrential rains, which have already been responsible for flash floods and landslides that have killed an estimated 250 people, are continuing in China’s heavily populated Hunan Province, raising threats of a...
Report Notes “Factory Fires” Rise in Taiwan and China
Jun 25 2002 // A report from the Associated Press highlights the significant rise in the number of fires that have struck factories on Taiwan and mainland China, many of which have been of suspicious origin. The article discusses the...
China Opening Doors to Insurance Contacts
Jun 24 2002 // Some recent events indicate that the Chinese insurance market is becoming more open to foreign insurers. U.S. and Chinese regulators recently concluded an agreement to begin sharing information; AIG opened an office in the...
China Opening Doors to Insurance Contacts
Jun 24 2002 // Some recent events indicate that the Chinese insurance market is becoming more open to foreign insurers. U.S. and Chinese regulators recently concluded an agreement to begin sharing information; AIG opened an office in the...
China May Limit AIG’s Subsidiary Ownership
Jun 13 2002 // According to several news reports, an official of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) told reporters at a news conference on June 11 that American International Group wouldn’t receive any more licenses...
AIG Sees 20-25% Growth in China
Jun 7 2002 // American International Group’s CEO, Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, speaking at a news conference in the Chinese capital, Beijing, indicated that the company expects to see revenues from insurance premiums in...
ACE to Buy 22% Stake in Chinese P/C Insurer for $150 Million
May 29 2002 // Bermuda’s ACE Ltd. announced that it has entered into a strategic business partnership with Huatai Insurance Company, China’s fourth largest property/casualty insurer, and “will acquire 22% of...
China Airlines Fully Insured for 747 Crash Claims
May 27 2002 // As rescuers attempt to locate the flight recorders, and continue the grim task of trying to recover the remains of the 225 people aboard a China Airlines 747 that apparently disintegrated on a flight from Taipei to Hong...
NAIC, Chinese Regulators to Cooperate as Insurance Ties with China Expand
May 24 2002 // Recent moves have confirmed the reality of the expanding Chinese insurance market. They include an agreement between U.S. and Chinese regulators to share information; an announcement that AIG has been granted a first ever...
Allianz Report Upbeat on Business in China
May 2 2002 // Germany’s Allianz posted an article on its web site that sounds an upbeat note about doing business in China, and singles out Shanghai as the best place for banks and insurance companies to locate. The report notes...
China Sends Insurance Team to Korea to Arrange Air Crash Claims Payments
Apr 17 2002 // According to reports from China’s Xinhua News Agency, the Beijing Insurers Association has taken the lead in establishing a special team of investigators and dispatching them to South Korea to examine and expedite...
HSBC to Increase Presence in Chinese Market
Mar 20 2002 // The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corp. (HSBC), which despite its name is actually based in London, announced plans to to tap the growing insurance market in mainland China by opening branches of HSBC Insurance in Beijing,...
Chinese Insurance Sector Reports 32.2% Growth
Feb 5 2002 // Judging from a report by Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, the insurance market in the People’s Republic is thriving with total income for 2001 of 210.94 billion yuan ($25.5 billion), a 32.2 percent increase...
Report AIG to Receive 4 New Licenses in China, Then 100% Ownership To End
Dec 10 2001 // Following up on earlier reports (See IJ Website, Dec.7), the Wall Street Journal has indicated that Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji and American International Group’s CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg have...
