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...“So, the main newcomers in Dali are these two types [tang ping and lüju]. Their primary need is economic stability . . ....
...News round-up Credit Suisse shares hit new low as chair’s claims come under scrutiny (FT) McKinsey to cut up to 2,000 jobs in back-office restructuring (FT) HSBC boosts dividend to counter Ping An break-up...
...The phrase Neng uses for such rule-pushing is ca bian qiu, outlined by Dr Marstine as originating from a move in ping-pong when you land a ball so close to the table’s edge that the other player can’t return...
...An editorial writer for Apple Daily who uses the pen name Li Ping was arrested under the law on Wednesday....
...Although the big state-owned insurers China Life, Ping An and Pacific dominate the market for critical illness insurance, they face the challenge of the country’s big technology firms, which see a model...
...Assets held in Yu’e Bao reached a peak of about $250bn in 2018, illustrating the power of Ant’s technology to drive investor inflows....
...Liu Gen Ping, a partner at Vertex Ventures, said the attraction of south-east Asia and India was due to the lag behind China....
...China Merchants Bank has Mo’jie, its own service, as does insurance company Ping An. There are also several independent players such as CreditEase. The market remains small, however....
...LimeBike has suggested using its ability to track customers’ smartphones via GPS to “ping” them to move a scooter that might be causing a hazard....
...When Alipay, an affiliate of Chinese ecommerce group Alibaba, launched its Yu’E Bao online money market fund in 2013, it attracted 30m accounts and more than Rmb100bn ($14.7bn) within six months....
...Alibaba’s Yu’e Bao became the world’s largest money market fund in March when its assets under management hit $165bn, a testament to how non-financial companies have enjoyed the same trust as banks....
...Coming out of a ping pong bar in Bangkok (what else?), the Captain and his companion immediately run into a cinema playing The Hamlet....
...Ant Financial controls the leading third-party online payment service, Alipay, and the country’s biggest money-market fund, Yu’E Bao, which is marketed online....
...Mr Niu called for the outright prohibition of Alibaba’s Yu’e Bao fund....
...In recent weeks, numerous banks including the big banks (ICBC, BOC) and joint stock banks (CMB, MSB, Ping An Bank) have started to launch their own internet T+0 redemption MMFs (Figure 9)....
...Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Ping An Bank and others have started offering such funds in recent weeks....
...Lian Ping, chief economist at Bank of Communications, has forecast 8.3 per cent, while Luo Yi of China Merchants Securities expects 9.4 per cent growth....
...The idea of popping a filling in the middle catches on, and the name baozi is coined – bao means “to wrap”....
...Even a method like stir-frying has many variations, such as basic stir-frying (chao), fast stir-frying over a high flame (bao), and stir-frying in a dry wok (gan bian)....
...The bank has a 17 per cent stake in Ping An, the country’s number two insurer....
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