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It's Going to Get Easier to Use China's Apps
Hi all, it’s Zheping in Hong Kong. My life as a Chinese app super user is finally getting easier, but first…
China’s Secondhand Business Is Booming
Used goods, from apparel to appliances, have finally lost their stigma. It’s a big market.
Xi Jinping Aims to Rein In Chinese Capitalism, Hew to Mao’s Socialist Vision
Going well beyond curbing tech giants, he wants the Communist party to steer flows of money and set tighter limits on profit making, his speeches show and officials say. More turbulence for foreign businesses is likely.
Xi’s Celebrity Fight No Match for Universal Studios in China
As President Xi Jinping’s government looks to tame China’s celebrities, the popularity of a new Universal Studios theme park in Beijing shows Hollywood’s enduring soft power among the nation’s 1.4 billion people.
China Tells Internet Companies to Stop Blocking Links From Rivals
Tencent, Alibaba, ByteDance and other technology companies were called to a meeting with Chinese officials last week, as Beijing seeks to end a practice that has become common in the past few years.
How Alibaba intends to use its ‘common prosperity’ fund
The plan consists of 10 initiatives including promoting investments in technology, supporting small businesses and fostering development in rural areas.
Tencent-Backed Tech Giant Sea Taps Investors for $6 Billion
Southeast Asia’s most valuable listed company, Sea, is capitalizing on investor enthusiasm for the region’s fast-growing technology industry.
The Industry Walmart Invented in China May Now Leave It Behind
In the months before the delta variant upended domestic travel in China, Walmart Inc. would regularly have employees fly to cities like Shanghai to observe and take photos of what its competitors were up to, according to people familiar with company’s practices. At times, they got caught and were asked to leave.
Alibaba Sex Crime Suspect’s Release Shows China #MeToo Woes
A decision by Chinese prosecutors to drop charges against a former Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. manager accused of rape underscores the raft of challenges facing women who seek to navigate China’s justice system.
China Tech Stocks Meituan, Alibaba Jump After Tencent Share Buyback
Chinese technology stocks rallied to their highest level in more than a month after a new round of share buybacks by Tencent Holdings Ltd boosted market sentiment.
Chinese Firms Adopt More Rigorous Sexual-Harassment Policies After Alibaba Scandal
The sexual-assault scandal at Alibaba Group that spurred an online backlash about workplace culture is driving other Chinese companies to confront, or create, their own policies on sexual harassment.
China Finance Regulators Pledge to Tighten Supervision
Chinese officials pledged to tighten supervision in the financial services industry, suggesting a recent regulatory onslaught on the private sector that sent shock waves globally is not over yet.
Shanghai Suspends Key Approval on Route to Offshore Listings
Officials in China’s financial capital of Shanghai are closing a route used for decades by companies operating in the technology sector to draw foreign investment.
China’s Alibaba to invest billions by 2025 for ‘common prosperity’
Move comes on back of Beijing encouraging firms to share wealth as part of a drive to ease inequality
Alibaba earmarks US$15.5 billion to help China close nation’s wealth gap
The move follows a call last month by Chinese President Xi Jinping for companies to “adjust” high income levels, in a prod for wealthy individuals and companies to “give back to society”.
China's Wants Control of Companies' Data, Not Just Access to It
Beijing is taking steps that will give the government not only access to, but purported ownership of, the vast amounts of information that companies collect.
China Orders Ride-Hailing Firms Meituan, Didi to Fix Misconduct
Chinese regulators ordered car-hailing services run by Didi Global Inc., Meituan and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to rectify instances of what the government considers misconduct by December, amping up scrutiny over an industry that employs millions of people.
After Proudly Celebrating Women, Alibaba Faces Reckoning Over Harassment
A rape accusation at the Chinese e-commerce giant has shed light on a work culture that some former employees say is humiliating and toxic.
Didi Creates Union, Setting Precedent for Xi’s Worker Agenda
Didi Global Inc. is helping workers establish their first union, a groundbreaking decision its fellow tech giants may soon follow as China imposes rules to curb excessive work and protect millions of blue-collar workers from exploitation.