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...Bao’s connections to China’s tech sector were formed in the late 1990s when he met the founders of the country’s “tech trinity” — Alibaba’s Jack Ma, Tencent’s Pony Ma and Baidu’s Robin Li....
...Ant also completed a regulatory process in December that removed Ma’s control of the fintech....
...Company Accounting Oversight Board, the US accounting regulator, will travel to Hong Kong in mid-September to examine the audit working files of several Chinese companies listed in New York, including Jack Ma...
...Additional reporting by Hudson Lockett in Hong Kong...
...Letter in response to this column: Time Lords and Terminators / From Marc Hudson, Stone, Staffordshire, UK...
...Additional reporting by Cheng Leng, Gloria Li and Hudson Lockett in Hong Kong...
...Alibaba’s shares have lost more than 70 per cent of their value since Ma made a 2020 speech criticising China’s financial watchdog and banks....
...Shares in Chinese tech groups had already received a boost this week after Alibaba founder Jack Ma on Monday appeared publicly in mainland China for the first time in a year, as Beijing seeks to boost investor...
...The WHO said in a statement that its director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had spoken with Ma Xiaowei, head of China’s National Health Commission, about the country’s Covid situation and was analysing...
...In her Hudson Institute speech last week, she observed that Ukraine was divided on what kind of relationship with Russia the country should pursue....
...The sector has been subject to a crackdown since regulators pulled the $37bn initial public offering of Jack Ma’s Ant Group at the last minute in November....
...Tsai, whose final term ends next year, will on Thursday receive the Hudson Institute’s Global Leadership Award, previously given to leaders including US president Ronald Reagan and Japanese prime minister...
...Beijing also imposed unspecified measures against the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, where Tsai spoke on Thursday, and the Hudson Institute think-tank in New York, where she received an award on a stopover...
...Ant Group has appointed the Hong Kong stock exchange chair as a director as the fintech group affiliated to Jack Ma’s Alibaba seeks to boost its governance....
...Ravi Menon, managing director of the MAS, said in a speech at Singapore’s fintech festival last week that the city-state did not want to be a hub for trading and speculating in the asset class....
...People familiar with the situation confirmed Jack Ma was not the person referred to in the report....
...People familiar with the situation said Jack Ma was not the person referred to in the report....
...Irene Cheung, senior Asia strategist at ANZ, said Singapore’s currency had done well “first because of the very aggressive policy stance of the MAS and second the revival we’re seeing in tourism and the...
...The MAS announced the move as core inflation, which excludes accommodation and private transport, hit 2.3 per cent year on year in January-February, up from 1.7 per cent in the final three months of last...
...first big IPO intervention came in November 2020, when regulators scrapped what would have been the record $37bn listing of Ant, the fast-growing fintech group owned by billionaire Alibaba founder Jack Ma...
...Chinese tech stocks are turning higher, a year after Beijing kicked off a crackdown on the sector by blocking the record $37bn initial public offering of Jack Ma’s Ant Group....
...Additional reporting by Tabby Kinder, Cheng Leng and Hudson Lockett in Hong Kong...
...Alibaba, which reports quarterly earnings later today, was founded more than two decades ago by Chinese entrepreneur Jack Ma....
...Among those to benefit are Zhong Shanshan, head of bottled water empire Nongfu Spring, who overtook Jack Ma and Pony Ma as the richest person in China last year....
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