GMI, based in New York and recently merged with the Corporate Library, a governance research firm, rates the practices of more than 4, 100 companies by examining pertinent public data, including regulatory filings, company websites and news services, to see how well they follow securities regulations, stock exchange listing requirements and various corporate governance codes and principles.

FORBES: Beyond The Balance Sheet

It was packed with Canadian companies in search of capital either through a direct listing (difficult, given profitability requirements at the Hong Kong stock exchange) or a partial investment by a cash-laden, resource-hungry Chinese firm.

ECONOMIST: Boom time for miners in a resource-hungry region