Royal Bank of Scotland said its chairman and chief executive in China, Sherry Liu, resigned from her post.
"Starting from last year, Chinese corporate bonds, which were mostly sold to emerging-market bond funds in the past, have become much more appealing to U.S.-based bond investors, " said Fang Fang, vice chairman of Asia investment banking and chief executive of China investment banking at J.
Apple expects China to overtake the US as its biggest sales market, the company's chief executive has told China's state news agency.
"Our investments in China are generating strong results and China makes an important contribution" to regional earnings, said Andrew Au, chief executive officer for Citigroup in China.
"China has 10, 000 hotels but less than 200 with any sort of national brand, " says Super 8's China chief executive, Mitchell Presnick.
Sales "are currently up 17 percent quarter on quarter, so we think we'll do a little bit better than the market (average) this year, " said Kevin Wale, GM China chief executive officer.
"In the next ten years I won't be able to export, " says Philip Murtaugh, chief executive of GM's China Group.
Another big market, said 3Com Chief Executive Bruce Claflin , is China, owing to Cisco's lawsuit against Huawei charging copyright and patent infringements.
Even if he were, some Democrats admit, he might flounder, since voters accept that the chief executive should be someone whom China can do business with.
Henry Paulson , Goldman's outbound chief executive, was also a China expert, having visited the country dozens of times in the last few years to meet with government and industry leaders.
Mr Liang is chief executive of Ctrip, one of China's most successful travel companies.
And the chief executive revealed that Chelsea have offered the China national football team the use of their facilities ahead of the 2008 games.
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In October the Nvidia chief executive got his proof when scientists at China's National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin unveiled the Tianhe-1A, the fastest computer on earth.
Now William Rose, formerly McDonald's station chief of a region between India and China, has been dispatched to become the new chief executive for Donatos.
After Tung Chee-hwa became chief executive following Hong Kong's return to China in July last year, he outlined a more activist development strategy stressing high-tech and value-added industries.
Ni Runfeng, the chief executive, was being hailed as a hero in China.
Mr. Dhanin's CP Group is planning to expand Siam Makro throughout Southeast Asia, and even into Pakistan and China, said Korsak Chairasmisak, chief executive of CP ALL at a briefing Tuesday.
Warwick managing director and chief executive Bob Ellis said: "We see China as a great opportunity for our company both in terms of sourcing speciality chemicals for our European distribution businesses and as an emerging market for our detergent additives manufactured in Wales".
The surge has attracted the attention of Apple chief executive Tim Cook, who met with the chairman of China Mobile last week.
"This exploration joint venture is the latest chapter in the rich history of partnerships between Rio Tinto and China, " said Rio's chief executive Tom Albanese.
In Hong Kong, leader CY Leung Chun-ying will face a corruption investigation over the chief executive election last year, the Ming Pao and South China Morning Post report.
"The high-growth Indian market, the third largest in Asia after China and Japan, was a noticeable gap in our network, " says Gavin Darby, Vodafone's chief executive for the U.S., Africa, China and India, who now sits on Bharti's board.
He's chief executive of the eurozone bailout fund and he recently went to China to ask for cash assistance.
Edward Shugrue, chief executive of CMBS investor and servicer Talmage, said Bank of China is one of the large sovereign entities looking for significant U.S. real-estate holdings.
"We are hopeful we can reach a positive conclusion soon and launch a new service that complements our already substantial operations in China, " James Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of Hong-Kong based Star said.
Yet Hong Kong's leaders and legislators had to be chosen somehow, and China stated in the Joint Declaration that the chief executive would be appointed by the central government after elections or consultations held locally.
Chief Executive Charles Li is refocusing HKEx to take advantage of expectations that China will become a net exporter of capital as currency restrictions are relaxed, with growing commodities and fixed-income products to diversify away from low-margin cash equities.
"The best way to achieve the results we desire is through engagement and communication, and the SED is an important tool to further the U.S.-China economic relationship, " says Donald Evans, chief executive officer of the Financial Services Forum, a group whose members include Citibank, Bank of America, HSBC and Paulson's alma mater, Goldman Sachs.
Other China attendees at Davos include Shi Zhengrong, chairman and chief executive of solar panel market Wuxi Suntech Power Co.
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"Accepting this kind of practice in China is condemning China to remain an underdeveloped country, " fumes Nissan Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn.
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