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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....
...Low salaries add to pressure on doctors, said Jin Dong-yan, a virologist at the University of Hong Kong....
...People waved glowing plastic hearts on sticks, a common prop in South Korean K-pop. “Jay” was written on the hearts in Roman script alongside Chinese characters....
...The group’s chair Hui Ka Yan has resisted pressure to raise cash through rapid sales of the heavily indebted developer’s best assets, including land, urban redevelopment projects in the Pearl River Delta...
...Ding Yumei, the wife of Hui Ka Yan, Evergrande chair and formerly China’s richest man, paid Rmb20m ($3m) for the company’s high-yield investment products on July 8, according to a purchase document that...
...Reporting by Sherry Fei Ju in Beijing, Sun Yu in Shanghai, Primrose Riordan and Thomas Hale in Hong Kong and Edward White in Seoul...
...Yan’s lack of agency is mirrored by that of ghostly Bai Yu but she attempts to meet the challenge he sets her. Yu, who is Chinese-born, offers vivid descriptions of contemporary Beijing....
...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....
...Yu was optimistic that the inhalation delivery method would appeal to some vaccine refuseniks....
...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...
...“We expect the fundamental indicators of the real estate industry in 2023 to be steady overall,” said Zhang Yu and Li Hao from CICC....
...Additional reporting by Wang Xueqiao in Shanghai and Sherry Fei Ju and Sun Yu in Beijing...
...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 Hong Kong university, said mainland China took a different approach from places such as the US or Hong Kong, where people who died after contracting Covid-19 were included in...
...Meanwhile, there are signs Evergrande’s billionaire chair Hui Ka Yan has come under pressure to draw on his own resources to support the company....
...There is no sign that China will halt climate collaboration with other countries, including the EU, Yu told me....
...When the Russian invasion of Ukraine started two weeks ago, Jane Yan, a senior executive at a machine parts maker in eastern China, said she was not too worried about the impact....
...For years, South Korean beauty groups led by AmorePacific and LG Household & Health Care benefited from the massive popularity of K-pop and Korean dramas....
...Original shareholders including Hui Ka Yan will be wiped out. “This is how Beijing has managed highly indebted companies over the past three to four years,” Chen added....
...One can only imagine what Li Yu would have made of the tinned bamboo shoots sold in western Chinatowns....
...Chair Hui Ka Yan was summoned by Chinese government officials last Friday after the property developer warned it might not be able to meet its financial obligations....
...The coupon payments due on Monday and guarantees referred to on Friday, worth a combined $343m, are equivalent to the value of shares sold late last month by Evergrande chair Hui Ka Yan — a transaction that...
...Ding Yumei, wife of Evergrande founder and chair Hui Ka Yan, paid Rmb20m for group investment products in July....
...Can Hui Ka Yan’s billions spare him from the Evergrande crisis? Evergrande boss Hui Ka Yan, once China’s richest man, used to be a symbol of success....
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