New Zealand plans to modify the "golden visa" to attract wealthy immigrants, and the New Zealand government is planning to modify its so-called "golden visa" program to attract more wealthy immigrants to invest in New Zealand. The Active Investor Plus Visa has always attracted the rich to New Zealand, bringing an average of NZ $1 billion (US$ 580 million) to New Zealand every year, but it has been sluggish since the rules changed in 2022. According to the data of Immigration New Zealand, in the past two years, only 35 applications have been fully approved, equivalent to NZ $352 million in nominated investment funds. In an interview in Wellington on Thursday, Finance Minister Nicola Willis said, "We realized that the previous government changed these settings, and we saw a significant drop in the number of investors. You can expect to see our announcement in this regard in the next few weeks. "This year, the amount of M&A transactions involving listed companies in Hong Kong has reached 38 billion US dollars, which has triggered a rare bidding war. This year is expected to be the busiest year for M&A transactions involving listed companies in Hong Kong in the past decade, with industries ranging from skin care products to logistics real estate, and the bidding war has also warmed up. It is reported that China Mobile's bid for Hongkong Broadband may face competition from American private equity firm I Squared Capital. Bi Hua, chairman of Fenmei Packaging, is negotiating with Qihao Capital to jointly counter the privatization offer of Shandong Xinjufeng. The data shows that the scale of M&A transactions for listed companies in Hong Kong has reached $38 billion this year, the highest level since 2017, including the merger of Guotai Junan Securities and Haitong Securities, a smaller competitor, to become the largest brokerage firm in China.Kuwait set the price of crude oil sold to the Mediterranean region and northwest Europe in January at a discount of $4.90 per barrel.
An earthquake of magnitude 4.0 occurred in the waters near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. According to Japanese media reports, an earthquake of magnitude 4.0 occurred on the morning of the 12th local time in the eastern coastal area of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, with a focal depth of 50 kilometers. Fukushima Prefecture has a sense of earthquake in many places, including Urachi-CHO, Langjiang-CHO and Yuye-CHO, among which Urachi is the location of Units 1 to 4 of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (CCTV News)South Korea's ruling party has made it a unified position within the party to oppose the "special inspection law for civil strife" and "Jin Jianchit's inspection law". South Korea's ruling National Power Party said that it will make it a unified position within the party to oppose the "special inspection law for civil strife" and "Jin Jianchit's inspection law". (CCTV News)The 1800th train of "Yangtze River Train" started this year and completed the annual operation task 20 days ahead of schedule. On December 11th, on the first anniversary of normal operation, the 1799th and 1800th trains of "Yangtze River Train" started from Xianglushan Station in Wuhan and Chengxiang Station in Chengdu respectively, and completed the annual operation task 20 days ahead of schedule. "Yangtze River Train" is a hot-metal combined transport train in Sichuan to solve the "dam-breaking difficulty" of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River and improve the transportation capacity of the golden waterway of the Yangtze River. It was launched on December 10, 2023 and reached the first thousand-train target after eight months of operation. Luo Sheng, director of the transportation marketing department of Shudao Railway Operation Group and general manager of Shudao Banlie Branch, said that "Changjiang Banlie" is the fastest-growing train product in Sichuan with the shortest time for over 1,000 trains.
Employees demand to pay social security. Xia Yiping: The problems are all being solved. If you escape, you won't come. Some netizens posted a video showing that Xia Yiping, CEO of Ji Yue, was surrounded by employees in the company, and some employees shouted at Xia Yiping: "Take out your savings and pay social security to employees." Some employees at the scene said that if social security is broken, how many people will be affected, don't talk empty talk. Xia Yiping responded that knowing that everyone is very angry, everyone has followed us for so long, and I am very grateful. "These problems are being solved. Now I am communicating with you. If I escape, I will not come." Xia Yiping, CEO of Extreme Vietnam, issued an internal letter on the afternoon of the 11th, acknowledging that the company was encountering difficulties and needed immediate adjustment. (Sina Technology)CSRC: Optimize the supply of products in time and include the first batch of index funds in the catalogue of personal pension investment products. Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Finance, the State Administration of Taxation, the General Administration of Financial Supervision and the CSRC jointly issued the Notice on the Full Implementation of the Personal Pension System (hereinafter referred to as the Notice), and the personal pension system will be extended to the whole country on December 15. Personal pension is long-term, persistent and large-scale. By actively investing in the capital market, it is conducive to sharing the fruits of the development of the real economy and helping to maintain and increase value for a long time. As a representative of professional institutional investors in the capital market, Public Offering of Fund industry has been entrusted to manage all kinds of pension assets over 6 trillion yuan, creating good long-term income and accumulating rich management experience. According to the requirements of the Notice, the CSRC timely optimized the product supply and included the first batch of index funds in the catalogue of personal pension investment products. Subsequently, the CSRC will strengthen the supervision of personal pension investment in Public Offering of Fund, urge Public Offering of Fund managers to continuously improve their management and service capabilities, and better support the high-quality development of personal pensions. (CSRC)Guangxi: Expand the coverage of the "white list" project and include the corresponding projects of new housing development loans. According to the news of Guangxi News Network, the General Office of the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region recently issued a notice on printing and distributing the "Measures for Promoting the Stable and Healthy Development of the Real Estate Market in Guangxi". There are 20 measures, including six aspects: implementing financial support policies, optimizing housing accumulation fund policies, strictly controlling the increment of commercial housing, optimizing the stock of commercial housing, improving the quality of commercial housing and optimizing the business environment of the real estate market. Expand the coverage of the "white list" project of urban real estate financing coordination mechanism. In principle, the "white list" mechanism is the main financing channel for compliant housing development projects, and the corresponding projects of new housing development loans are all included in the "white list". Optimize the loan approval process of "white list" projects to improve the efficiency of loan issuance. On the premise of coordinating with the real estate project company, the commercial bank can pay all the loans in advance to the project fund supervision account opened by the real estate project company according to the plan provided by the real estate project company, and then entrust the payment from the supervision account to the fund-using object according to the actual application.
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