It was a "bloody Monday" for Chinese stock markets as shares once again nosedived in the sharpest decline since 2007.
Currently Jack Ma owns 7.6 per cent of Alibaba and Joe Tsai owns 3.1 per cent.
The explosions took place as rescuers began cleaning hundreds of tonnes of cyanide at the blast site, most of which was unaffected raising fears of the possibility for contaminating air and water sources.
The death toll in twin explosions in this Chinese port city of Tianjin on Saturday rose to 85 amid protests from frustrated relatives of the missing fire fighters demanding answers on their loved ones' fates as specialised anti-chemical warfare soldiers recovered one survivor.
Fires are still burning at the site of the two massive explosions some 36 hours after the blasts as another 6,200 people were evacuated to prevent further casualties.
The office building housing Chinese supercomputer Tianhe-1, one of the world's fastest supercomputers, suffered damage.
Faced with sluggish economic growth and dwindling exports, China on Wednesday devalued its currency for the second consecutive day.
The onshore yuan trading band is tightly controlled.
Nine persons were killed and three others missing as Super Typhoon Soudelor left behind a trail of destruction in eastern China, uprooting trees, hitting power supply and causing the heaviest rains in a century, state media reported on Sunday.
The NDB will have an initial authorised capital of $100 billion.
A Chinese firm said the unmanned aircraft was not sold to any government.
The opening ceremony was held in China's financial capital.
In an embarrassing disclosure for Pakistan, Chinese official media reported that the "spy" drone Pakistani army shot down along the Line of Control, claiming it belonged to Indian security forces, was made in China.
Delhi businessman Rajiv Mohan Kulshrestha was held for watching terror-related videos
A feature of this year's BRICS summit was economic cooperation.
"We need to have further discussion and conversation so that we can have better understanding and can work closely on it. We are ready to do that," said a Chinese official.
Swamy said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should convene a conference of "insiders" to draw up a new policy especially after the recent Lakhvi episode.
China has made the world's first electric passenger aircraft that could be used in pilot training, tourism, meteorology and rescue operations.
Mount Everest moved three centimetres during the recent devastating earthquakes in Nepal but contrary to earlier reports the height of world's tallest mountain has not been affected, Chinese official monitoring agency said.
Some experts argue that India's new growth figures are due to the revised calculation of GDP, which was launched in January
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