Having failed in his bid for a massive development project around a new hockey arena, New York Islanders owner Charles Wang is throwing down the gauntlet to local taxpayers: you want the Islanders to say, float us the money.

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Last year, Amazon's head of operations in China, Wang Hanhua, stepped down after seven years with the company.

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The message is filtering down, according to Ann Wang, a young entrepreneur in China who is on the board of the China Youth Climate Action Network.

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