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Alibaba (9988): China's Anti-Graft Agency Has Direct Role in Jack Ma’s Ant Probe
China’s biggest graft-busting body was involved in the probe of Ant Group: The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), which oversees corruption probes into top Party officials, was one of the agencies named in a recent investigation into links between state-owned Chinese firms and Ant — the fintech offshoot of Alibaba.
Ant’s planned IPO was canceled after Alibaba founder Jack Ma (马云 Mǎ Yún) criticized China’s financial regulators in 2020. Chinese prosecutors this week charged former Hangzhou Party chief Zhōu Jiāngyǒng 周江勇 with accepting “huge” bribes, but did not mention rumored connections to Ant.
新鲜早科技丨PayPal CFO将离职转任沃尔玛CFO；唯捷创芯科创板破发大跌36%；知乎或将回归港股IPO - 21财经
Douyin is doing drinks: Douyin, ByteDance’s short-video app, confirmed today the company will sell beverages on the Douyin platform via live broadcasts and short videos.
‘Always on and watching’: A former Xinjiang prisoner describes life inside China’s detention camps
A former detainee recalls a Xinjiang detention camp: Read a rare, firsthand account with Ovalbek Turdakun — a Christian, a Chinese passport holder, and an ethnic Kyrgyz — who was imprisoned in one of China’s detention camps.
Turdakun told his story after U.S. immigration authorities granted him and his family advanced parole, a temporary immigration status that lets them enter the United States. This article was published by TechCrunch, a website that usually covers Silicon Valley, and it says that Turdakun’s knowledge will “provide vital evidence regarding the use of technology provided by Chinese companies such as Hikvision to facilitate gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.”
Six of Hong Kong’s biggest banks to reopen all branches as Covid-19 eases
Hong Kong’s biggest banks to reopen all branches: Branch operations are to be fully restored next week as the city prepares to relax some of its social-distancing rules.
Twitter users are exposing pro-Russian sentiment in China, and Beijing is not happy | CNN
Twitter users are exposing nationalists and pro-Russia talk in China by translating content from popular social media platforms under the hashtag “The Great Translation Movement,” which Beijing has rebuked as “cherry picked content.” Meanwhile, inside China, social media users expressed frustration with a once popular nationalist blogger’s patriotic clickbait.
iPhone maker Pegatron halts Shanghai production due to Covid lockdown
iPhone factories closed: Taiwanese iPhone maker Pegatron halted operations because of pandemic restrictions at two subsidiaries in Shanghai and Kunshan, raising global supply chain fears.
Shanghai lockdown stokes global supply chains anxiety
Electronic manufacturers halt production after restrictions extended beyond China’s biggest city
U.S., Australia Pressure Solomon Islands on China Military Pact
Australia urged the Solomon Islands to “consider not signing” the draft of a new security deal with China, after Australian Minister for the Pacific Zed Seselja visited the islands amid growing pressure among Western nations to ditch the controversial pact.
机构：TikTok今年广告收入或激增至逾110亿美元 超推特与Snapchat之和
TikTok’s ad revenue could top $11 billion this year, according to one forecast, which is more than Twitter and Snapchat combined. TikTok and its Chinese counterpart Douyin, both products of Beijing-based ByteDance, together surpassed 63 million downloads in March 2022, ranking first in the list of global mobile non-game application downloads.
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Huawei is doing payments! After obtaining a license in March, Huawei has entered an industry 90% controlled by Alipay and WeChat Pay with its Huawei Wallet app. Huawei’s biggest competitive advantage is probably the use of the company’s own product ecosystem.
China censors gay storyline in new Fantastic Beasts franchise movie
China has nixed another gay movie storyline, this time from the Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. Warner Bros caved to demands from the Chinese government to censor references to a queer relationship from dialogue.
Premier Li flags ‘sense of urgency’ in fresh warnings to provincial leaders
Economic crisis meeting in Beijing: With economic challenges mounting, Lǐ Kèqiáng 李克强 implored local-level authorities to do their part.
China Sets Aside Push to Spread Wealth in Pivotal Year for Xi
China has put the “common prosperity” push on the backburner in this “pivotal year” for Xí Jìnpíng 习近平, whose “rhetoric about redistributing wealth was aimed partly at drumming up public support,” but which “unnerved entrepreneurs and posed a drag on growth,” says the New York Times.
U.S. fines 6 companies linked to Chinese metals tycoon $1.8bn
Six companies linked to Chinese metals tycoon Liú Zhōngtián 劉忠田 have been fined $1.83 billion “by a U.S. federal judge in Los Angeles in relation to a conspiracy to evade customs duties and inflate the revenues of Hong Kong-listed China Zhongwang Holdings.”
Exclusive: Former Shenzhen Head of China Construction Bank Taken Away by Graft Busters
Wáng Yè 王业, “a former president of the Shenzhen branch of China Construction Bank Corp. (CCB), has been taken away by anti-corruption authorities,” reports Caixin.
