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...With additional reporting from Nian Liu in Beijing and Eleanor Olcott in Hong Kong...
...Vietnam’s dong strengthened against the dollar after news last week the country’s central bank was intervening in currency markets....
...Soon after it was founded, Qian asked an employee, Jiangtao Ren, to become the legal representative for three years, Ren told a Tianjin court in 2018....
...State-owned ChemChina bought Syngenta in a $44bn deal in 2017, then the largest-ever outbound takeover by a Chinese company, that was part of an overseas dealmaking spree led by ChemChina’s then-chair Ren...
...Unlike his predecessor, Dong is not subject to US sanctions....
...“[Ant’s] corporate governance is [now] more balanced and optimised,” said Dong Ximiao, a senior researcher at Merchants Union Consumer Finance....
...Meanwhile, parts of many of the world’s leading cities — including Hong Kong, Sydney, San Francisco, New York and London — are in danger of becoming child-free zones because young families simply cannot...
...Liqian Ren, who manages China investments at WisdomTree Asset Management, a US-based fund, said that many China-focused investors had concentrated on macro trends in housing and consumption, and had taken...
...It said the 3tn dong ($122mn) facility can manufacture about 200,000 20-foot equivalent units a year. It will eventually be able to produce 500,000 TEUs a year, Hoa Phat said....
...In September, popular economist Ren Zeping called for the Chinese government to suspend the activities of quant funds because of their impact on retail traders and the wider market....
...shown here is Kim Daum’s four-channel video “Blind Land”, which explores private and public space as different narrators reflect on their experience in living in the densely populated cities of Seoul, Hong...
...Hong Kong’s Hang Seng China Enterprises index has shed 2 per cent this week....
...Net losses at VinFast in the first quarter were 14.1tn dong ($588mn) against 9.7tn dong in the same quarter the previous year....
...Low salaries add to pressure on doctors, said Jin Dong-yan, a virologist at the University of Hong Kong....
...Seoul has also recognised the importance of satellite communications, said Brigadier General Kim Hong-chul of South Korea’s Joint Forces Military University, citing the example of the war in Ukraine....
...Xi has long asserted that the US is in decline, repeating the slogan “dong sheng, xi jiang” — the “east rises, the west falls”....
...The Vietnamese dong is down 3.4 per cent, while Singapore’s dollar and Indonesia’s rupiah have held up relatively well, slipping 2.1 per cent and 0.7 per cent, respectively....
...Additional reporting by Gloria Li in Hong Kong and Edward White in Hong Kong...
...Dong Ximiao, chief researcher of Shenzhen-based Merchants Union Consumer Finance, said retaining Yi at least temporarily would help ensure the stability of the central bank’s monetary policy....
...Ren Zhiqiang, former chair of property developer Huayuan Real Estate Group, went missing the same year, marking pressure on property groups....
...“Several employees quit the company to set up their own and leaked the technologies to China via a Chinese broker,” said Lee Dong-hwan, who served as a state investigator on the SEMES case and is now working...
...He hopped on his private jet and flew to Hong Kong to meet Sinochem’s new chair and try to persuade him to sell down his company’s 37 per cent stake to about 10 per cent....
...Additional reporting by Andy Lin in Hong Kong...
...Additional reporting by Bobby Nugroho in Jakarta, Kim Dung Tong in Ho Chi Minh City and Cissy Zhou in Hong Kong....
...But Dong’s clinic had yet to receive the necessary drugs and antigen testing kits to deal with coronavirus patients....
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