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...Qin’s wife Lin Yan accompanied him to the US, where he was posted in 2021 as ambassador. He left the post this year after being appointed foreign minister....
...Back then its founder, Hui Ka Yan, still seemed hopeful he could save the world’s most indebted developer....
...Evergrande on Thursday said its chair, Hui Ka Yan, had been placed under “mandatory measures” on suspicion of involvement in “illegal crimes”, a sign of escalating government pressure on the Chinese developer...
...Hui Ka Yan, its chair, has been placed under “mandatory measures” on suspicion of “illegal crimes”, authorities have said....
...In the same month, founder and chair Hui Ka Yan, formerly China’s richest man, was placed under what the company described as “mandatory measures” by authorities, without clarifying further....
...This month Chinese writer and Nobel laureate Mo Yan was attacked by nationalists on Weibo and accused of smearing China in his books....
...For years I’ve wanted to see a “strange stone banquet” (qishi yan), and now one stands before me....
...fiction lies at the core of the prolific Chinese novelist’s ambitious latest offering, which takes the temperature of tensions between material reality and spiritual life in the People’s Republic under Xi...
...Its woes were captured this week by news that authorities suspected tycoon Hui Ka Yan, of the heavily indebted Evergrande conglomerate, of being involved in criminal conduct....
...Low salaries add to pressure on doctors, said Jin Dong-yan, a virologist at the University of Hong Kong....
...But for Beijing, CBAM is an example of green protectionism, says Yan Qin, a carbon analyst at London Stock Exchange Group....
...Bishop Stephen Chow Sau-yan, the top Catholic cleric in Hong Kong, will be the first senior church official from the Chinese territory to visit Beijing since 1994....
...Lest there were any doubts about his intended direction of travel, on Thursday he led Li Qiang and the other five members of the party’s most powerful body on a tour of Yan’an....
...Yan said the rare disclosure of the loan details by Chinese commercial banks indicated authorities want to shore up confidence....
...Evergrande’s Hong Kong headquarters in Wan Chai was seized in September by lenders led by China Citic Bank International, the Hong Kong subsidiary of the state-owned bank....
...“This is in line with [Chinese president] Xi Jinping’s recent travels,” the person said, referring to Xi’s visit to Saudi Arabia in December....
...Shein founder Chris Xu was a notable newcomer, with a fortune estimated at $10bn, while Hui Ka Yan, chair of struggling property group Evergrande and once one of the country’s richest people, dropped off...
...Also on his list are the Lei Garden restaurants across China and Singapore and Tim Ho Wan in Hong Kong for “the best pork buns in the world”....
...Hui Ka Yan, the founder of Evergrande, has been seeking buyers for jets, luxury yachts and mansions since last year to help with fund debt repayment to creditors....
...here in Guangzhou to see whether it works . . . whether even if they do less mass testing and don’t execute the really stringent lockdowns, whether Covid could still be put under control,” said Jin Dong-yan...
...Jin Dong-yan, a virologist at the University of Hong Kong, said Chinese hospitals could be overwhelmed by an influx of unvaccinated elderly patients if there was a mass outbreak, replicating a crisis in...
...in an effort to showcase their allegiance to the party in the wake of crackdowns on technology and property entrepreneurs such as Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba and Ant, and China Evergrande chair Hui Ka Yan...
...Jin Dong-Yan, a virologist at the University of Hong Kong, said CanSino’s approval was “a step in the right direction” because data indicate that the technology behind its adenovirus vector vaccine provides...
...Wan Li, a vice-premier, gave a speech in 1986 arguing: “We should remove the ban on free expression and encourage the free airing of views.”...
...Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan in 2012 built one of the world’s largest residential football academies in Qingyuan in southern China’s Guangdong province with the help of coaches from Spanish club Real Madrid...
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