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Overseas bank profits up

Profit growth at Citigroup Inc, ABN Amro Holding NV and other foreign banks in China tripled this year after they were allowed to offer local-currency services, a central bank report said.

Overseas banks earned a combined 3.05 billion yuan in the first five months, up 43 percent from a year earlier, the People's Bank of China said in a research report published by China Securities Journal. Profit growth accelerated from an average 14 percent over the past five years.

Report delayed

Focus Media Holding Ltd, China's biggest publicly traded advertising company, delayed filing its 2006 report with the US Securities and Exchange Commission pending an internal probe ...

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