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How JD.com founder Richard Liu rebounded from a Minneapolis sex scandal to achieve a hat-trick of IPOs in Hong Kong Minghe Hu minghe.hu@scmp.com JD.com founder Richard Liu attends a business forum in Hong Kong in this file photo dated June 9, 2017. Photo: Reuters
Richard Liu Qiangdong, the billionaire founder of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com, has emerged as one of the biggest winners in China s tech sector, with two successful public listings in Hong Kong and another in the pipeline, in what analysts are calling an impressive comeback after being mired in a sex scandal two and a half years ago.
In Norway, China s Winter Olympics gold-medal factory hoped to put young athletes on the podium msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Tall order for Paul Chan’s budget: help Hong Kong’s needy, save stricken businesses, revive economy amid Covid-19 pandemic Denise Tsang and Cannix Yau denise.tsang@scmp.com, cannix.yau@scmp.com Hong Kong finance chief Paul Chan has already dropped hints that his hands will be tied by the city’s record budget deficit and shrinking reserves. Illustration: Ka-kuen Lau
In his 70 sq ft cubicle in Cheung Sha Wan, renovation worker Xu Guiquan, 62, struggles with feelings of desperation as he has been mostly out of work since the Covid-19 pandemic hit Hong Kong early last year.
Kam Tin in the New Territories is a domestic tourist destination – no thanks to official initiatives A child interacts with a mural in Kam Tin. Photo: SCMP / Winson Wong
With outbound travel from Hong Kong all but dead due to pandemic restrictions, recent months have seen domestic visitors throng to formerly ignored, out-of-the-way spots. One that has seen a tremendous weekend spike in local tourists - astonishingly, perhaps, to anyone who once knew the place - is Kam Tin.
Now easily accessible by MTR, the journey from Hong Kong s urban areas was in the past a considerable trek, which involved several changes of public transport. At least half a day would be taken up with the return journey over Tai Mo Shan and a desultory look around - and for what, more than a few visitors querulously asked themselves, when they eventually got back to Kowloon.