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The group of employees have allegedly been fired because they publicly shared screenshots of an employee's post on sexual harassment, Bloomberg reported.Read More

The logo of Alibaba Group is seen at its office in Beijing, China January 5, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas Peter Aug 30 (Reuters) - Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (9988.HK) dismissed 10 employees for publicizing a female colleague's account of sexual assault allegations against a former manager, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing…

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The forerunners of China’s internet industry have long held up their superior work cultures and corporate values as key to becoming the behemoth businesses they are today. In these companies, there are no courtesy titles. The lowest-level employees can address the founders as if they are a colleague in the…

CIW / Retail & E-commerce / JD.com highlights in Q2 2021; annual customers grew 27% to 532 million August 24, 2021 By CIW Team Jingdong (JD.com) annual activee-commerce customer accounts increased by 27.4% to 531.9 million in the 12 months ended  June 30, 2021, from from 417.4 million a year…

Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee Secretary Zhou Jiangyong, 53, has been placed under investigation for serious violations of party discipline and state law Topics China | Alibaba | Ant Group China is investigating Hangzhou’s top government official for serious disciplinary violations, casting a spotlight on the city that is home to Jack Ma’s Ant Group…

(THR) Disney and Pixar’s Luca, the first Hollywood movie to release in China in 10 weeks, opened to just $5.1 million over the weekend, coming in a distant second place behind holdover Chinese hit Raging Fire, which has been in cinemas since late July.Directed by the late Benny Chan and starring…

HONG KONG—China’s anticorruption watchdog is investigating top government officials in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, where Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Ant Group Co. are based, raising questions about close ties between local top-level Communist Party officials and the private sector. On Monday, China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection…

Last week, China’s market regulator announced a draft of new regulations on big tech companies in its latest effort to tighten control of the tech sector. The draft, released by the State Administration for Market Regulation, would give more power to the agency’s local branches to investigate inappropriate activity by…

(Image credit: Nice Tuan) Alibaba-backed online grocer Nice Tuan is reportedly downsizing its operations, according to an internal letter (in Chinese) made public on Saturday and in various Chinese media reports.  Why it matters: Nice Tuan is the latest grocery startup to scale back its operations amid consolidation in China’s…