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...Ma remains mostly out of public view and spends some of his time in Japan, while Bao has not been seen since February....
...Microsoft is betting on AI to help it develop new “productivity” software alongside its Office applications, as well as improve its Bing search engine....
...Helen Chen, greater China managing partner at LEK Consulting in Shanghai, noted that the “government’s vaccination push has waned as resources shifted to manage outbreaks”....
...Migo’s investors include Singaporean state investment fund Temasek and YouTube co-founder Steve Chen....
...“Liu He is so powerful,” said Chen Long at Plenum, a Beijing-based consultancy. “I don’t think any single person will inherit all of his portfolios.”...
...“There are different lines of thought within the regulators,” Mr Chen says. “Until Jack Ma’s speech the pro-growth people had the upper hand....
...But most banks have mainly dealt in mortgages and business loans, situations in which borrowers have collateral, said Chen Long, a Beijing-based partner at Plenum, a consultancy....
...“The owners here are very brave,” says Stephen Chen, 50, a history teacher buying a copy of Stefan Zweig’s Encounters and Destinies: A Farewell to Europe....
...“Valuations are a lot more reasonable now,” said Zhao Chen, managing partner at start-up accelerator Plug and Play China. “It's a good time to find strong teams who can power through this period.”...
...When Chen Zhe’s mother-in-law was diagnosed with late-stage colorectal cancer, he sought out Li Jin, a Shanghai doctor recommended by another medical professional....
...Among the artists he has collected are Richard Lin, Hong Kong’s Lee Kit, Haegue Yang from Korea and Cai Guo-Qiang, Xu Bing, Chen Zhen and Gu Wenda from China — “but everything is so expensive now,” he says...
...“The cash cow is not growing, the ones that are growing are not making a lot of money, and some parts are only burning money,” said Martin Bao of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, who estimates non-GAAP...
...It won’t happen all at once,” said Bao Jun, analyst at market research firm iResearch....
...In Sichuan, the sauces clinging to your pork ribs and Gong Bao chicken may be seasoned with sugar, but you’ll probably finish dinner with soup, rice and pickles, and perhaps some sliced pear....
...But Xiang Bing, its dean, stresses his international focus is more tightly concentrated on the “Confucian economic sphere”, including Japan, Korea, Vietnam and greater China....
...Xiang Bing, dean of the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in Beijing, stresses that his institution, by contrast, is “faculty managed” and embraces values including social responsibility for the next...
...He wasn’t reflecting his own personal guilt but acting in the interests of history,” said Bao Tong, the highest official imprisoned following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, who has known Chen since...
...UBS analyst Zhao Bing said the announcement showed that the current regulatory system would survive Mr Bi’s downfall....
...In another video, Xu Bing filmed pigs copulating in a front of a gawping gallery audience....
...The same generation as Ai Weiwei and Xu Bing, Chen left China like them in the 1980s, but settled not in the United States but in Paris, where he lived until his death in 2000 from cancer....
...Chen Bing, deputy head of the Chengdu Investment Promotion Commission, an agency that grants perks to businesses that want to invest, says wages average two-thirds to half of those paid in coastal Chinese...
...“I hope my son remembers who I am,” says Chen Bing, a ZTO courier who hails from neighbouring Hebei province....
...Zhang Bing, another of the speakers, taps into this striving spirit. “You want your children to think like a rich person....
...“As far as I know this is the first time that someone widely believed to be responsible for the massacre has expressed regret for those events,” said Bao Pu, the Hong Kong-based publisher of the book....
...“As far as I know this is the first time that someone widely believed to be responsible for the massacre has expressed regret for those events,” says Bao Pu, publisher of the new book and the son of Bao...
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