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...Additional reporting by Wang Xueqiao in Shanghai...
...Also on Friday, the Department of Justice unsealed charges against two Los Angeles residents for bribery and participating in a state-directed scheme targeting US-based practitioners of Falun Gong, the religious...
...Wang Dan and Wang Juntao were not so lucky. Although Li had his freedom, he was a wanted man....
...Last month, the city’s mayor Gong Zheng told reporters that foreign investment last year reached a record $23.5bn, which he argued “shows Shanghai is still one of the most attractive places for foreign investment...
...He was an untitled 16-year-old in the 2009 Chinese championship, was half a point behind the leader Wang Hao at the start of the final round, and faced the experienced master Zhou Jianchao....
...This has helped pave the way for Xi to further consolidate power by appointing longtime ally Wang Xiaohong as public security minister in June....
...Additional reporting by Xueqiao Wang in Shanghai and Eleanor Olcott in Hong Kong...
...Jiang is survived by his wife, Wang Yeping, and two sons, Jiang Mianheng and Jiang Miankang....
...As Qualcomm becomes more focused on pushing its 5G chips, that gives Unisoc some chance to continue to grow in 4G,” Brady Wang, an analyst with Counterpoint, told Nikkei Asia....
...Wang Pi-sheng was sent to TSMC’s Hsinchu headquarters on Monday after the chipmaker reported three confirmed cases to Taipei, sources told Nikkei Asia....
...Sheng, head of investment banking at China International Capital Corporation....
...All five notices from China received this year were requests from the MPS to take down content related to Falun Gong, a religious group that has been harshly repressed in China....
...Chinese works, including an 11th-century letter by scholar Zeng Gong for $32m in 2016....
...Sheng Hong, former head of a think-tank that was forced to close for repeatedly criticising Mr Xi’s economic policies, said the only thing private companies should be forced to do is pay their taxes....
...A senior CBIRC regulator, Luo Sheng, was put in charge of the process despite having limited overseas experience to deal with complicated transactions such as the legal dispute with Mirae....
...The Weibo accounts of two non-financial popular bloggers, including Wang Zhian, a former state broadcast commentator who wrote about social issues, were also blocked....
...Elsewhere, Natalie Portman wore a Dior cape embroidered with the names of female directors; Lorene Scafaria (Hustlers) Greta Gerwig (Little Women) Lulu Wang (The Farewell), all of whom were snubbed for Best...
...Additional reporting by Wang Xueqiao...
...Fengrui was at the centre of a network of lawyers who took on cases deemed sensitive by the ruling Communist party, defending dissident scholars, members of the banned religious group Falun Gong and activists...
...Additional reporting by Wang Xueqiao and Sherry Ju...
...The third-party vendor model is “apparently designed to circumvent the ban on online sale of prescription drugs”, said James Gong, a lawyer at British firm Herbert Smith Freehills....
...Gong Yu, chief executive of online streaming service iQiyi, estimates that about half of cinemas in China are losing money....
...Paul Gong, China car analyst from UBS, said that restrictions on foreign companies participating in China’s map and communication industry “have no effect on traditional automakers”, as they specialise in...
...State security officials have in the past travelled to the US to harass practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual group....
...Ms Wang adds that swaps “will carry additional costs — but not as much as the 10 per cent tariff”....
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