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Alibaba founder Jack Ma seen in China after long absence
The Free Press Journal
|March 28, 2023
Alibaba founder Jack Ma, who has rarely been seen in public in the past three years, has resurfaced at a school in China's Hangzhou, media reports said.
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The 58-year-old has kept a low profile since criticising China's financial regulators in 2020.
Ma was the most high-profile Chinese billionaire to have disappeared amid a crackdown on tech entrepreneurs, the BBC reported.
He recently returned to China after more than a year overseas, according to the South China Morning Post.
This story is from the March 28, 2023 edition of The Free Press Journal.
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