Alibaba to Shutter Its Xiami Music App Next Month

Jessica Kiang A sport as quickfire as indoor volleyball deserves a nimbler workout than it gets in “Leap,” Peter Ho-Sun Chan’s lavish but curiously low-boil based-in-truth sports movie. Telling the decades-spanning tale of the Chinese Women’s Volleyball team and its star-player-turned-head-coach, Lang Ping, it’s essentially a rise-and-fall-and-rise-again story.

A Miss Ireland winner has been left ‘heartbroken’ after a group of hackers cloned her Instagram account in a bid to scam her nearly 8,000 followers.

Beleaguered Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, whose recent absence from the spotlight had sparked fervent speculation about his whereabouts, made hisfirst public appearance in nearly three months on Wednesday. The celebrity tech tycoon gave a live video address to a group of Chinese teachers who were receiving accolades during an educational event supported by his philanthropic group, the Jack Ma Foundation, Chinese state media reported.

Alibaba founder Jack Ma has made his first public appearance since October after questions swirled about his whereabouts.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefJack Ma, the iconic businessman and co-founder of Alibaba who had been reported by media as missing, made an appearance this week in public, Chinese state media reported on Wednesday.Ma met with 100 rural teachers via a video meeting, Tianmu News, a news portal that belongs to Zhejiang Online, a government-backed news website, reported.The news was also carried by state-owned tabloid, The Global Times.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefTencent Music Entertainment, which is already China’s biggest online music platform, is planning on getting bigger through the proposed acquisition of Lazy Audio.Among the current owners are financial investors, the company’s management and fellow Tencent group company China Literature.

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, famous for hislove of the spotlight, hasn't been seen in public in over two months following Beijing's aggressive crackdown on his Alibaba business empire. The celebrated entrepreneur was slated to appear as a star judge on the season finale of Africa's Business Heroes, a reality TV show created by his own philanthropic organization.

Questions are growing about the whereabouts of Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, after he failed to appear on the finale of an African business TV show he created.

Edinburgh Zoo could be on the verge of returning its famous giant pandas to China next year. The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs the zoo alongside the Highland Wildlife Park, says that it lost around £2m last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Cops are on the hunt for a maniac motorist who allegedly tried to mow a man down after mounting the pavement. The victim was left injured after becoming embroiled in the drama in Greenock this afternoon.