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...Arabic channel's broadcasts will emphasize factual reporting on issues like political reform. Hamad bin Thamer told TIME that the board is studying a report by Ernst & Young on how to become more financially competitive, with a view toward privatizing al-Jazeera. No date has been set for an IPO, but the chairman suggests that when it happens, a majority stake could be reserved for Qatari citizens, with the remaining shares open to all international investors...
...initial public offering (IPO) of Sinopec stock on global exchanges in October 2000, the company weathered criticism from human rights activists over its small stake in a Sudanese oil exploration block. Sinopec sold the Sudanese holding to CNPC before the IPO, company officials said at the time...
...Stronger Signal Investors gobbled up shares in Premiere, the once-struggling German pay-TV broadcaster. An initial public offering raised up to €1.18 billion, the biggest German IPO so far this year...
When China Power International launched its Hong Kong IPO in mid-October, the local press treated CEO Li, 43, like a movie star. She got more space in the South China Morning Post than did Elton John, who had performed in Hong Kong that week. That's because in Asia, Li is almost royalty. Not only is she the first female boss of a foreign-listed, state-owned Chinese company, but her father is former Chinese Premier Li Peng, a controversial figure who became the public face of the Communist Party's hard line against democracy protesters...
...received from lovelorn Chinese girls. "I don't want to attract too much attention," he says. That's hard to avoid these days. Ma is the founder and CEO of Tencent Holdings, which operates China's largest instant-messaging service, with 355 million users. In June, Tencent made an IPO in Hong Kong. While many recent China issues have flopped, Tencent shares are up 58%. Ma quit his job at a paging company in 1998 and, with four friends and total combined savings of $120,000, started the company. Ma did just about everything himself, from designing websites to mopping...