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    Jack Ma’s Ant forced into arms of banks he once dubbed ‘pawnshops’

    Fintech will have to rely on state-owned behemoths under online lending reforms

  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
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    TikTok rival Kuaishou hits $160bn valuation as shares surge after IPO

    Chinese video app’s market debut is biggest in tech sector since Uber offering in 2019

  • Wednesday, 3 February, 2021
    ByteDance
    ByteDance files lawsuit against Tencent in tit-for-tat battle

    Suit alleging abuse of market dominance immediately elicited a promise of retaliation

  • Wednesday, 3 February, 2021
    Ant Group
    Ant Group strikes deal with Chinese regulators over restructuring

    Jack Ma’s payments group will put all its businesses inside financial holding company

  • Tuesday, 2 February, 2021
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    Revenues boosted by acquisition of Sun Art supermarket chain

  • Tuesday, 2 February, 2021
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    US threatens Myanmar, Robinhood raises cash, Kuaishou’s IPO

    Joe Biden has threatened to impose sanctions on Myanmar after a military coup

  • Monday, 1 February, 2021
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    Kuaishou IPO boosts biggest rival to China’s TikTok

    Video sharing app is pivoting business model to advertising and ecommerce

  • Tuesday, 26 January, 2021
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    Beijing turns the screws on China’s property sector

    Real estate stoked Covid recovery but ever-increasing prices are ‘politically not acceptable’

  • Monday, 25 January, 2021
    Beijing Kuaishou Technology Co Ltd
    TikTok rival Kuaishou to raise up to $6.3bn in Hong Kong IPO

    Deal a measure of investor demand for Chinese tech groups as Beijing cracks down on sector

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    Coronavirus drives retreat of Chinese VCs to safer deals

    Investors lavish funds on known companies in favoured sectors at expense of tech start-ups

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
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    Jack Ma makes first public appearance since Ant’s cancelled IPO

    Alibaba shares rise after Chinese billionaire resurfaces on video after three-month absence

  • Sunday, 17 January, 2021
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    Allen Wu is fighting accusations of conflicts of interest at Chinese joint venture

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
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    Shares in China’s Xiaomi tumble after US investment ban

    Washington order means US shareholders in smartphone group could be forced to divest

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
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    Chinese tech groups set to boost country’s listless CDR market

    Lenovo and Megvii to sell shares via system launched by Beijing to fanfare three years ago

  • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
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    WhatsApp fights back, Chinese workers, Microsoft Teams

    Facebook-owned messaging app says people have misinterpreted changes to its privacy policies

  • Tuesday, 12 January, 2021
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    Chinese courier sets fire to himself in protest over unpaid Alibaba wages

    Images of driver go viral on social media renewing concerns over tech sector’s working practices

  • Tuesday, 12 January, 2021
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    Jack Ma vs Xi Jinping: the future of private business in China

    The crackdown on Alibaba and Ant Group amounts to an unprecedented squeeze on a ubiquitous ecommerce empire

  • Monday, 11 January, 2021
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    Ex-employee claims staff are exploited at China’s fastest growing ecommerce company

  • Monday, 11 January, 2021
    Electric vehicles
    Baidu teams up with Geely to make smart electric vehicles

    China’s leading search group and top carmaker to roll out new EVs brand

  • Thursday, 7 January, 2021
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    Alibaba and Tencent shares drop on US investor blacklist report

    Trump administration block on US investments into Chinese tech groups could inflame tensions

  • Wednesday, 6 January, 2021
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    Deal comes at delicate time for group but could be one of biggest for Chinese corporate debt market

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  • Friday, 1 January, 2021
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