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New lockdowns hit sentiment despite Ant excitement
Business, Published on 31/10/2020
» Recap: A fresh wave of coronavirus-driven lockdowns in Germany and France and jitters ahead of the US presidential election sent most Asian stock markets into the red despite the excitement over the Ant Group IPO, which attracted US$3 trillion in orders from individual investors for its dual listing in Hong Kong and Shanghai.
China's super rich get $1.5 trillion richer during pandemic
Business, Published on 21/10/2020
» BEIJING: China's super wealthy have earned a record $1.5 trillion in 2020, more than the past five years combined, as e-commerce and gaming boomed during pandemic lockdowns.
China's rich seek bodyguards schooled in digital dark arts
AFP, Published on 20/09/2020
» TIANJIN, China: At the "Genghis Security Academy", which bills itself as China's only dedicated bodyguard school, students learn that the threats to the country's newly-rich in the tech age are more likely to emerge from a hacker than a gunman.
Alibaba shares leap after Ant Group IPO filing
AFP, Published on 26/08/2020
» HONG KONG: Shares in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba jumped to a new record Wednesday morning, a day after the group's financial arm filed paperwork for a joint Shanghai and Hong Kong listing.
"AZI Institute aims to design lives that build world-class businesses"
Published on 24/06/2020
» AZI, the Actualizentral Institute, is a model driving concepts to create an ecosystem of life and business in a new world that is full of challenges and transitions to which people must adapt at an accelerating pace in terms of life, business, society and spirit, including technology, problems of the old world, and challenging issues in the new world such as uncertainty, confusion and complexity in all aspects.
Jack Ma's Fintech Giant Ant to Drop 'Financial' From Its Name
Business, Published on 24/06/2020
» China's largest financial-technology company is rebranding itself to emphasize the tech rather than the finance, after earlier drawing scrutiny from regulators.
China's street stall revival
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 22/06/2020
» Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has been calling for the revival of the "street-stall economy", emphasising the role street vendors play in providing employment opportunities and as a source of affordable goods, especially food, for many people, while giving the country's economy a welcome shot in the arm as it starts to recover from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
China hones new plan to overtake the US in tech
Bloomberg News, Published on 21/05/2020
» Beijing is accelerating its bid for global leadership in key technologies, planning to pump more than a trillion dollars into the economy through the rollout of everything from wireless networks to artificial intelligence.
SoftBank Group reports record losses on virus, WeWork woes
AFP, Published on 18/05/2020
» TOKYO - Struggling Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group on Monday reported record losses, as the coronavirus pandemic compounded woes caused by its investment in troubled office-sharing start-up WeWork.
Fighting Covid-19 together
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 06/04/2020
» Economic forecasts for this year were gloomy enough before Covid-19 started to spread around the world. The outbreak has only increased global turbulence as countries impose lockdowns in an attempt to combat the spread of the disease.