Alibaba freezes pay hikes for senior execs amid China's big-tech crackdown

Alibaba freezes pay hikes for senior execs amid China's big-tech crackdown

Alibaba, Tencent and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. each joined the ranks of Asia's top 10 companies by quarterly net profit. (Nikkei montage/Photos by Reuters

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding has frozen pay raises for senior executives in 2021 and is instead giving junior staff bigger salary increases, sources said, in an effort to preserve its workforce amid a regulatory clampdown.

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