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ALIBABA

Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 9, 2021
ByteDance hires thousands in bid to challenge e-commerce king Alibaba
A burgeoning e-commerce business could help the firm surpass its $250 billion valuation when it goes public.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Apr 26, 2021
With digital yuan trials, Beijing looks to claw back data from Alipay and WeChat
'Big data is wealth. Whoever owns data thrives,' said a banking official tasked with promoting the digital yuan.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 19, 2021
Trust me, you don’t want to be China's biggest billionaire
Conspicuous wealth attracts unwanted scrutiny. Beijing is wary of rich developers because they often load up on debt, thereby putting corporate China's financial health at risk.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Apr 12, 2021
Record fine for Alibaba, gem of China's tech sector, likely to chill growth
The discord began after Jack Ma infamously rebuked 'pawn shop” Chinese lenders, regulators who don't get the internet and the 'old men” of the global banking community.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 10, 2021
China fines Alibaba Group $2.8 billion in monopoly probe
The penalty is equivalent to 4% of Alibaba's domestic sales in 2019, China's State Administration for Market Regulation said in a statement on Saturday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Perspectives
Apr 4, 2021
China sets sights on a digital currency to challenge the U.S. dollar
China has taken the lead in becoming a cashless society.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 31, 2021
I wrote a book on Chinese history. It was stolen by pirates on Alibaba
The scale of counterfeiting in China is so vast that tackling it is an epic undertaking even for the supposedly uber-capable Chinese state
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 22, 2021
China’s regulatory war on Ant Group
Once the powerful central bank publicly turned against Ant, bureaucrats who had endorsed the group fell silent and other departments began to jump on the bandwagon.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 16, 2021
Xi warns against tech excess in sign crackdown will widen
China’s top leader warned that Beijing will go after so-called "platform” companies that have amassed data and market power, a sign that the monthslong crackdown on the country’s internet sector is only just beginning.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2021
Alibaba and Pinduoduo join fight against looming China food crisis
The battle to supply 1.4 billion people with fresh fruit and vegetables is taking China's e-commerce companies into the country's hinterlands.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 17, 2021
Why is China cracking down on Alibaba?
Given the Chinese government's huge regulatory power, investors are rightly anxious about Alibaba's prospects.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 29, 2021
Alibaba investors still uneasy after crackdown on Jack Ma’s empire
The Chinese giant is projected to unveil its slowest pace of third-quarter sales growth in five years on Tuesday, while confronting potentially the biggest crisis of its two-decade existence.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 10, 2021
Xi’s push against Jack Ma sparks new threat for China tech
Chinese tech companies did a pretty good job convincing global investors that they operated independently from the Communist Party. Now, Jack Ma has become a case study for the firms’ biggest skeptics.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 6, 2021
Trump targets Ant’s Alipay, WeChat Pay and others in latest round of bans
The outgoing president's order bans U.S. transactions with eight Chinese software apps in 45 days, when he'll no longer be in office.
BUSINESS
Jan 4, 2021
Jack Ma skips cherished TV show after Beijing tightens screws
Billionaire Ant Group Co. co-founder Jack Ma skipped a recent taping of an African TV program he created, spurring speculation online about his whereabouts and the outcome of an investigation into his internet empire.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 24, 2020
China targets Jack Ma’s Alibaba empire in monopoly probe
China has begun an investigation into alleged monopolistic practices at Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and summoned affiliate Ant Group Co. to a high-level meeting over financial regulations.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Dec 22, 2020
Beijing’s strong sense of crisis in Ant IPO postponement
Amid the rapid growth of the nation's digital economy, Jack Ma's dream was very different from China's.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 17, 2020
As China tracked Muslims, Alibaba showed customers how they could, too
The discovery could thrust one of the world's most valuable internet companies into the storm of international condemnation surrounding China's treatment of its Muslim minorities.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 3, 2020
China punctuates greater market freedoms with tough crackdowns
Last month alone, Beijing canned Ant Group's share sale, issued rules to root out monopolies in the internet sector and began scrutinizing investments in new energy vehicles.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

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