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...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....
...“I’m ready to clear my mortgage and sell the house, then buy a bigger flat for my family and apply for loans at a lower rate,” said Shanghai-based Bella Jiang....
...At the time, Ma turned over shares in the group’s controlling shareholder Hangzhou Yunbo to top lieutenants including then chief executive Simon Hu, chair Eric Jing and Jiang Fang, an Alibaba co-founder...
...Deng’s successor as leader, Jiang Zemin, formally invited private sector businessmen and women to join the party....
...At some point, people started using the liquid strained from fermenting soyabeans as a seasoning in its own right: this was soy sauce, which first appeared in Chinese literature by its modern name, jiang...
...Former chief executive Hank Paulson flew to China in 1992 to meet Jiang Zemin a year before he became president and subsequently made dozens of visits to the country....
...Jiang Min-Yan, a researcher from the Taipei-based Economic Democracy Union think-tank, said that “without being able to secure permanent residence or citizenship, it is impossible for Hong Kongers to feel...
...Some residents left messages asking Wuhan diarist Fang Fang to share their posts, according to anticensorship platform China Digital Times....
...The same applies to Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary,” he added, referring to the Wuhan-based novelist’s account of Covid-19’s emergence in the city last year that pillories government officials for their initial...
...Yes probably, says Yan Xiao in this podcast with Rui Ma of Tech Buzz China. Scott Kennedy at CSIS, a Washington-based think-tank, has an interesting overview of China’s new energy vehicle sector....
...During Fang Liu’s second term heading ICAO, Taiwan was not invited to the aviation body’s 2016 general assembly....
...Mr Xi’s predecessors, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao lacked the strength to take on the PLA....
...The Fangs (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix Google) certainly dominate the tech landscape in Silicon Valley....
...If Mao had killed Jiang, the Nationalists would have invaded Yan’an and probably wiped them out....
...Many big budget US movies now feature Chinese stars, often in supporting roles: Jiang Wen and Hong Kong’s Donnie Yen both starred in Rogue One, the recent Star Wars prequel, while Chinese actress Jing Tian...
...Fang is also the titular chairman of Goldman Sachs’ joint venture in China....
...It also fined two Chinese executives, Gao Yan and Liang Zezhong, a total of Rmb1.8m and issued them suspended prison sentences....
...In an email seen by the Financial Times, Fang Fang — then the chief executive of JPMorgan China — wrote to a colleague in 2008 describing Mr Gao’s lobbying....
...Jiang Zemin was the first Chinese president to visit Switzerland in March 1999. Mr Xi’s predecessor, Hu Jintao, stopped over in the country in April 2003....
...Mr Zeng was the son of Zeng Qinghong, a top official during the presidencies of Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao who remained in power till 2007; Mr Xiao was owner of several of the shells....
...— will feature securities regulator Fang Xinghai, real estate magnate Zhang Xin and Jiang Jianqing, chair of China’s (and the world’s) biggest bank, ICBC. 3....
...He then contrasts Mr Xi favourably with his more recent predecessors: “When Jiang Zemin was president, Deng had the final say. When Hu Jintao was president, Jiang had the final say....
...Additional reporting by Zhang Yan...
...As thunder and lightning ripped the skies, tens of thousands of people started chanting in Cantonese “Tin Nou Yan Yun, Tin Nou Yan Yun” – a saying that translates roughly as “Man is being blamed because...
...And no one is predicting that students will stop fleeing the Chinese educational system anytime soon. ——————————————- Additional reporting by Zhang Yan...
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