Stormy weather for Hong Kong's CDC

09.08.2006

Before its name change from Chinadotcom to CDC Corporation, the company

was focused on being an Internet portal. By successfully capitalizing on

its URL name, China.com, and riding the Internet wave of the late 1990s,

the company completed an IPO on the Nasdaq in 1999 that raised US$86

million. Not satisfied, the company went back to the equity markets the