TribLIVE’s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. What a year. Thankfully one of the weirdest and wildest in modern history is drawing to a close, bringing a new sense of optimism about the coming year. Or so I […]
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Yang Huaiding was an unknown 40-year-old warehouse keeper at a Shanghai steel factory earning 51 yuan (US$7.80) a month in 1990. Today, he is fondly known as “Millionaire Yang” in the folklore of China’s stock market. The Shanghai native made his first million from dabbling in the initial batch of […]
JIANHE, China — Yang Asha smiled serenely down at the craggy emerald landscape, her hand outstretched in welcome. She appeared unmoved by the fierce condemnation her presence has ignited in China — she is, after all, made of gleaming stainless steel and bigger than the Statue of Liberty. To officials […]