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SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT Tina Wee OUR STORY about video app Douyin’s
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR-CONTENT Justin Doebele hold on Chinese youth (“Bytedance to
EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS Eugene Wong, Aarin Chan,
Janelle Kuah, James Sundram the Music,” June, p. 14) prompted this
SALES DIRECTORS Lindsay Williams, Michelle Ong analysis from @Edourdoo: “As people
DIRECTOR, CIRCULATION Eunice Soo spend more time on Douyin, their
DEPUTY DIRECTOR, EVENTS & COMMUNICATIONS attention is being diverted away from
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DEPUTY DIRECTOR, CONFERENCES Jolynn Chua WeChat—hurting Tencent’s goal of
DEPUTY DIRECTOR, CIRCULATION Pavan Kumar keeping users for longer periods there

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CORRECTIONS: In “Crazy for Crypto”,
ASSISTANT MANAGER, MARKETING & RESEARCH

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Angelia Ang, Sharon Joseph, Sabrina Cheung two years. Our caption for Kim Jung-Ju neglected to say that his ownership of
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Taynmoli Karuppiah Sannassy, Jennifer Yim Korbit is through his holding company, NXC. And Nexon is not investing in cryp-
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