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...The investment banking division faces the largest cuts after its head Wang Lixing warned employees earlier this week that he was drawing up a list to “cut the fat”, one person said....
...Wang did not mention Bao by name but told employees that management had been in touch with the “backbone of our investment banking division”....
...Robin Li, head of search giant Baidu, William Lei Ding, founder of gaming group NetEase, and Wang Xiaochuan, head of internet portal Sogou, all stepped down as CPPCC delegates, as did China’s leading venture...
...Additional reporting by Wang Xueqiao in Shanghai...
...Wang’s travel freeze follows the months-long disappearance of tech sector dealmaker Bao, founder of investment group China Renaissance, and of Cong Lin, another of its former senior executives....
...Wang Chunru, a member of China’s top political advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, said he was using a Huawei device....
...He has been banned from leaving mainland China, a move connected to the investigation into tech dealmaker Bao Fan, said people familiar with the matter....
...Wang represented China at the Asean meeting in Jakarta last week, meeting Blinken on the sidelines....
...The disappearance of star Chinese banker Bao Fan merits a thought experiment....
...The shake-up marks the biggest irregular change among military leaders since Xu Caihou and Guo Boxiong, former deputy chairs of the Central Military Commission, were ousted more than a decade ago and prosecuted...
...The circumstances behind the ban remain murky, though it may be connected to a long-running probe into China’s top tech sector dealmaker Bao Fan, who disappeared in February....
...Recent headlines on the disappearance of China’s capable tech dealmaker Bao Fan and a raid on the Beijing offices of Mintz Group offer no comfort....
...Charles Wang Zhonghe is chair of investment banking for China at the Hong Kong arm of Japanese bank Nomura International. Read more on the ban and the reaction to it. 2....
...Under Guo and Yi, the PBoC had expanded its mandate to include digital payments and cryptocurrencies and other forms of credit such as property financing....
...dealmaker Bao Fan....
...Two former CMC vice-chairs, Xu Caihou and Guo Boxiong, faced prosecution for corruption in 2014....
...Additional reporting by Wang Xueqiao in Shanghai and Andy Lin in Hong Kong...
...Russia’s Kommersant newspaper reported earlier today that Wang Yi had arrived in the Russian capital....
...Founder Wang Chuanfu, who had just acquired a failing state-owned car business, cut short a discussion about American trade rules....
...Fosun bought Lanvin from Chinese newspaper magnate Shaw-Lan Wang and Ralph Bartel, who owned 75 per cent and 25 per cent of Arpège SAS, the holding company that owns the “Lanvin” name in 2018....
...Five vocal soloists — mezzo Huiling Zhu, tenor Kang Wang, bass Shenyang and the two indigenous singers, soprano Sen Guo and male vocalist Batubagen — were joined by the London Philharmonic Choir and London...
...China’s top tech dealmaker goes missing Bao Fan, the founder of China’s leading investment bank, has disappeared....
...Wang’s predecessors at the public security ministry, Zhao Kezhi and Guo Shengkun, were not considered to be particularly close to Xi....
...Guo and Yi were, in theory, young enough to remain Central Committee members....
...Additional reporting by Wang Xueqiao and Thomas Hale in Shanghai and Gloria Li in Hong Kong...
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