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...Additional reporting by Wang Xueqiao in Shanghai...
...Hui Ka Yan, the founder and chair of Evergrande, who was formerly China’s richest man, has seen his personal wealth come under intense scrutiny from investors amid the developer’s ongoing restructuring....
...The sport’s top authority this week banned 10 UK-based Chinese players including leading talents Liang Wenbo and Yan Bingtao for their involvement in a match-fixing scandal....
...Reporting by Sherry Fei Ju in Beijing, Sun Yu in Shanghai, Primrose Riordan and Thomas Hale in Hong Kong and Edward White in Seoul...
...Golden Age by Wang Xiaobo, translated by Yan Yan, Penguin Classics £18.99, 272 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...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....
...Evergrande revealed last week that Ding Yumei, the wife of founder Hui Ka Yan, had bought $3m of the company’s investment products in a show of support....
...Among the new blood is the Beijing-trained Shanshan Wang, a self-styled one-woman band whose gallery in St James’s presents a show of her speciality, Korean ceramics....
...Additional reporting by Wang Xueqiao in Shanghai and Sherry Fei Ju and Sun Yu in Beijing...
...Jin Dong-yan, a virologist at the University of Hong Kong, said that to tackle the coming “tsunami” of cases, “China should have an accelerated mechanism for approval to change vaccines based on the circulating...
...Additional reporting by Wang Xueqiao and Thomas Hale in Shanghai and Gloria Li in Hong Kong...
...We hear the comedian “Fei Fei”, Lydia Tin Ha Sum, coming from a mile off, cackling at the sight of Michelle’s ridiculous hands....
...Additional reporting by Xueqiao Wang in Shanghai, Edward White in Seoul and Ryan McMorrow in Beijing...
...“The story is always about expanding in China, but in the end, it is a very competitive market,” said Jonathan Yan, a principal at consultancy Roland Berger....
...Additional reporting by Xueqiao Wang and Cheng Leng tom.mitchell@ft.com...
...The candidate was not named in court documents, but descriptions appeared to match those of Xiong Yan, who has announced his candidacy for a US House of Representatives seat representing a district in Long...
...Additional reporting by Wang Xueqiao in Shanghai and Sherry Fei Ju in Beijing...
...Additional reporting by Xueqiao Wang in Shanghai, Maiqi Ding and Nian Liu in Beijing...
...Additional reporting by Wang Xueqiao...
...The People’s Bank of China reiterated its criticism of Hui Ka Yan for Evergrande’s woes again in October and early December....
...Additional reporting by Sherry Fei Ju in Beijing...
...By Edward White in Seoul, Tom Mitchell in Singapore, Sun Yu, Christian Shepherd, Ryan McMorrow, Sherry Fei Ju, Nian Liu in Beijing and Wang Xueqiao in Shanghai...
...Wang Hesheng, vice minister of the National Health Commission, said last week that Hong Kong’s high death rate among older residents demonstrated more effort was required to inoculate the elderly....
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