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Carson’s Control Issues

Another one of Carson Yeung’s companies released their results to the HK stock exchange today. SMI Publishing, which is 13.26% owned by Carson Yeung (via his “Billion Wealth” investment vehicle) announced unaudited losses for their third financial quarter of HK$7.51mil (about £600k).

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Posted in Birmingham City, Finances in Football | 29 Comments »

Yang Yuezhou update

There was a question on here last week about Yang Yuezhou – who you may know as the bloke who lent BIHL £12million last year – and what’s he doing recently. As it’s something that’s doing the rounds, I thought I’d write something quick up about it and to kill some misconceptions.

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Posted in Birmingham City, Chinese Media | 5 Comments »

Accounts Delayed… Again

News has broken in the last hour that the already overdue accounts for Birmingham International Holdings are to be delayed once again – for another three months until April 30th.

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Posted in Birmingham City, Finances in Football | 36 Comments »

What’s Going On – an OP Editorial

I’ve been asked by a few people via the comments on articles here and by email what my thoughts are on the developments with regards to Hong Kong – to wit the resignation of two executive directors and the news that money has come into the club from the parent company. I’ve had some time to think about it now, and this is what I think. Please note unless I where I point out otherwise this is going to be speculation on my part and shouldn’t be treated as gospel truth.

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Posted in Birmingham City, Editorials, General Ramblings | 21 Comments »

Enter the Dragon

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As many of you will know, today is Chinese New Year – the year of the Dragon. With an eye on Birmingham City’s owners, I thought it might be interesting to look and see what the astrologers and knowledgeable people thought the year ahead might bring.

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Posted in Birmingham City, Talking Points | 11 Comments »

More Directorial Changes at BIHL

A second executive director in ten days has resigned from the board of BIHL this morning.

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Posted in Birmingham City, Chinese Media | 18 Comments »

HKSE gets tough with BIH

BIHL have published an announcement with regards to the resumption of trading of shares in the company.

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Posted in Birmingham City, Finances in Football | 24 Comments »

Mudanjiang and Vico

Regular readers will know that one thing I have striven to do with this website is to keep track of what is happening in China with BIHL. Whilst looking for information on what is happening with Birmingham City’s parent company I came across this article concerning erstwhile Chairman of BCFC and Chief Executive of BIHL, Vico Hui.

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Posted in Birmingham City, Chinese Media | 3 Comments »

What Now?

Yesterday’s news that Carson will not stand trial until the end of November 2012 hasn’t gone down well with many Blues fans – which is understandable. Reading through the comments left on here the big question on many fan’s lips is what happens now. Here’s my take on the situation.

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Posted in Birmingham City, Finances in Football, General Ramblings | 19 Comments »

Carson Trial Date Set

The first news has broken when Carson’s trial on charges of money laundering will be heard, and for Bluenoses hoping for a quick resolution it’s bad news. The Sun (Hong Kong, not the red top here) have published that the trial will start November 28 2012, and will last for fifteen days. Until the Carson […]

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Posted in Birmingham City, Carsongate, Chinese Media | 18 Comments »

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