China bought a 14.99% shareholding in Rio's London-listed company, which equates to an interest of around 11% in the whole group which includes the Australian listed firm.

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Fosun International also owns stakes in U.S.-listed Chindex, a hospital management company focused on China, and Focus Media, an outdoor advertising company.

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Unicom's edge is that it is the only listed integrated telecommunication company in China, with wireless, paging, domestic long distance and Internet divisions.

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Perhaps the most revealing aspect of this adventure in high-altitude advertising is that Communist China's latest assault on Everest is being paid for by a New York-listed company.

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At a time when U.S.-listed small-cap companies from China have been getting hammered on transparency issues, one company is taunting its expansion with a plant event.

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The U.S.-listed New Oriental is such an entity and its VIE, or the operation company in China, was originally owned by the CEO Yu Minhong and ten other shareholders.

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