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Shanghai drops to 52-week low before Olympics
Banks, shipping shares down sharply; Toyota up along with Japan exporters
By V. Phani Kumar, MarketWatch
Last Update: 8/8/2008 6:28:00 AM
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Chinese stocks in Shanghai and Shenzhen slumped
Friday, finding little support ahead of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, as
concerns about a slowing economy weighed down property developers and [...]

Olympics unfurl with massive ceremony
By MarketWatch
Last Update: 8/8/2008 8:47:00 AM
LONDON (MarketWatch) — The 29th Olympic Games opened in Beijing Friday with an
elaborate ceremony punctuated by a dramatic fireworks display and a cast of
thousands of performers.
The ceremony began at 8:08 p.m., on the eighth day of the eighth month in the
year 2008 - tying into the [...]

By EDWARD WONG
Published: August 5, 2008
KASHGAR, China — Old men on donkey carts drove through this ancient city’s warren of sand-colored alleys, foreign backpackers haggled with salesmen over wool carpets, and shops and markets were open for business. A few policemen wandered around, and the faithful flocked to mosques.
This frontier town 2,500 miles west of [...]

BEIJING — It is becoming increasingly clear which nation global corporations will be rooting for at this summer’s Olympics: China.
Or at least that’s what it looks like from advertisements here. McDonald’s is running a “Cheer for China” television ad. Nike ads feature China’s star hurdler, Liu Xiang, and other Chinese athletes besting foreign competitors. Earlier [...]

Slowdown may be par for the course
Commentary: Visa crackdown isn’t the only reason fairways are empty
By Craig Stephen
Last Update: 6:08 PM ET May 4, 2008
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Hong Kong is a bustling, cramped city, which makes an
escape over the border to China’s world-class golf courses extremely popular.
It was a surprise therefore that with May [...]

BEIJING (AP) — China’s surging inflation and rapid economic growth have eased slightly amid government efforts to end food shortages and cool an investment boom, according to data reported Wednesday.
Consumer prices rose 8.3 percent in March compared with the same month last year, down slightly from February’s 8.7 percent rate, the highest in nearly 12 [...]