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The one-time billionaire who came to personify the boom and bust of China’s property ?market was sentenced to life in prison last week by a Chinese court. But ?the ?collapse of the sector, entering its sixth year, remains a drag on the world’s second-biggest economy, a pain point for millions of households and a force for export-reliant growth and trade friction for China. Analysts say there is no clear end in sight. Many angry homeowners and creditors — in comments that went initially uncensored on Chinese social ?media — asked why Hui Ka Yan, once Asia’s richest person and the…
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