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...Additional reporting by Chan Ho-him in Hong Kong and Yuan Yang in London...
...Yang Kai, a friend of Gao’s, is from Maotai township, the town where China’s famous liquor is made. His family are also distillers, but Yang said he does not want to start his own distillery....
...“His efforts to co-operate with the KMT turned me off, so now I’ll still vote for the DPP,” Yang said. The KMT’s warnings that a DPP victory could provoke war do not seem credible to Yang....
...Its share price fell to a record low on Friday, hitting the fortune of chair Yang Huiyan, formerly Asia’s richest woman....
...“The transportation of gas is safer to go through Russia, through land transport, compared with [the] faraway Middle East,” said Lin Boqiang, the head of the China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy,...
...Yang Jianwen, an economist at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, said property and consumption were the “two biggest issues” China needed to solve....
...Additional reporting by Yuan Yang in London...
...None of which offers any comfort to Yang, who said he suffered a stroke in November 2017 — two months after he stopped working at the BYD plant....
...“China always believes that if you put in enough money and the right expertise you can make it work, but mRNA takes a lot of accumulated knowledge,” Yang said....
...“Cellular agriculture uses significantly fewer resources and emits less carbon,” said Ziliang Yang, co-founder and chief executive of CellX....
...Yang, a protégé of Lenovo founder Liu Chuanzhi, has always been ambitious....
...After earning just Rmb41 ($6.34) for the work, Wang Lin, the bureau’s deputy head of labour relations, was filmed sitting on a kerb describing the experience....
...Chen Lin, assistant professor of marketing at China-Europe International Business School, noted that the antitrust case had been “settled through money without really changing its monopolistic position”....
Chinese company aims to corner global market through writing industry’s standards
...Yang Jiechi, China’s top foreign policy official, ended the first, acrimonious meeting with Biden administration officials in March by declaring that the US no longer spoke to China “from a position of strength...
...“Those who are really impacted are people like us, the ‘Shenzhen floaters’, who rent their apartments, and whose family are back in their hometowns,” added Ms Lin....
...In May 1967, under attack from a radical faction denouncing her stage routine as bourgeois and decadent, she pulled strings to have a loud hailer blare out on stage that Lin Biao, the minister of defence...
...Li Yang, a 35-year-old office worker, said his rent had more than tripled over the past four years while he waited for a flat he bought in 2016 to be completed....
...The company has nurtured much talent — from Yin Qi, the founder of facial recognition giant Megvii, to Lin Bin, co-founder of mobile phone maker Xiaomi....
Platforms including WeChat and YY succumbed to pressure from Beijing, say researchers
Efforts to track cases have been haphazard but technology companies face pressure to hand over information
...Mr Lin’s firm had previously filed an antitrust case against Apple on behalf of a group of Chinese app developers, which is being reviewed by regulators....
Activist Xu Zhiyong disappears and access to online information blocked
...Additional reporting Yuan Yang and Sue-Lin Wong in Shenzhen...
...Four hours later, Ms Yang’s mother died. Two days later, her grandfather died too. Ms Yang’s mother and grandfather are two of more than 800 people to have died from coronavirus....
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