Richard Liu

JD.com lags behind competitors including Alibaba and PDD Holdings when it comes to attracting merchants and distributors that sell low-cost goods.

A University of Minnesota student who said she was raped last August by Richard Liu, the chief executive officer of China's e-commerce retailer JD.com Inc, filed a civil lawsuit against him in a Minneapolis court on Tuesday, nearly four months after prosecutors declined to press criminal charges.

Richard Liu, the founder of JD.com, has weighed in on an ongoing debate about the Chinese tech industry's gruelling overtime work culture.

Minnesota prosecutors will not charge the billionaire chief executive officer of China's JD.com, Richard Liu, after he was accused of rape by a University of Minnesota student during a recent US visit.

It was a Thursday evening in late August and a crowd had gathered at the Origami sushi restaurant in Minneapolis. One guest, a 21-year-old female Chinese undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, was initially expecting a dinner in honor of volunteers like herself.

With the Chinese billionaire Richard Liu at her Minneapolis area apartment, a 21-year-old University of Minnesota student sent a WeChat message to a friend in the middle of the night. She wrote that Liu had forced her to have sex with him.

Since returning to China, JD.com CEO Richard Liu has appeared at small signing events on behalf of the company but is yet to attend a high-profile public event.

New revelations Wednesday that Minnesota police had arrested Chinese billionaire Richard Qiangdong Liu on suspicion of rape rather than assault has put renewed scrutiny on the high-profile case as stocks in JD.com, one of China's largest online retailers, plummeted.

JD.com CEO Richard Liu's lawyer said that the Chinese businessman has denied any wrongdoing and that he did not expect his client to be charged.

JD.com has said that the accusation against Liu, 45, was unsubstantiated.

Tech billionaire and JD.com founder Richard Liu has returned to China, the company said today, following a brief arrest in the US over allegations of criminal sexual conduct.

JD.com is one of China's tech heavyweights, competing with larger rival Alibaba Group Holding.

Chinese e-commerce billionaire Liu Qiangdong -- also known as Richard Liu -- was briefly arrested in the midwestern US city of Minneapolis over allegations of criminal sexual conduct, authorities said.

"One day it will hurt the US economy too," said JD.com Chairman and Chief Executive Richard Liu , whose online retailer competes with bigger rival Alibaba.

China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd has taken sales of its low-price Honor brand of smartphones to 20 million from 1 million in just one year, hitting pay dirt with the disruptive online-only strategy it copied from smaller upstart Xiaomi Inc.

JD.com lags behind competitors including Alibaba and PDD Holdings when it comes to attracting merchants and distributors that sell low-cost goods.

A University of Minnesota student who said she was raped last August by Richard Liu, the chief executive officer of China's e-commerce retailer JD.com Inc, filed a civil lawsuit against him in a Minneapolis court on Tuesday, nearly four months after prosecutors declined to press criminal charges.

Richard Liu, the founder of JD.com, has weighed in on an ongoing debate about the Chinese tech industry's gruelling overtime work culture.

Minnesota prosecutors will not charge the billionaire chief executive officer of China's JD.com, Richard Liu, after he was accused of rape by a University of Minnesota student during a recent US visit.

It was a Thursday evening in late August and a crowd had gathered at the Origami sushi restaurant in Minneapolis. One guest, a 21-year-old female Chinese undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, was initially expecting a dinner in honor of volunteers like herself.

With the Chinese billionaire Richard Liu at her Minneapolis area apartment, a 21-year-old University of Minnesota student sent a WeChat message to a friend in the middle of the night. She wrote that Liu had forced her to have sex with him.

Since returning to China, JD.com CEO Richard Liu has appeared at small signing events on behalf of the company but is yet to attend a high-profile public event.

New revelations Wednesday that Minnesota police had arrested Chinese billionaire Richard Qiangdong Liu on suspicion of rape rather than assault has put renewed scrutiny on the high-profile case as stocks in JD.com, one of China's largest online retailers, plummeted.

JD.com CEO Richard Liu's lawyer said that the Chinese businessman has denied any wrongdoing and that he did not expect his client to be charged.

JD.com has said that the accusation against Liu, 45, was unsubstantiated.

Tech billionaire and JD.com founder Richard Liu has returned to China, the company said today, following a brief arrest in the US over allegations of criminal sexual conduct.

JD.com is one of China's tech heavyweights, competing with larger rival Alibaba Group Holding.

Chinese e-commerce billionaire Liu Qiangdong -- also known as Richard Liu -- was briefly arrested in the midwestern US city of Minneapolis over allegations of criminal sexual conduct, authorities said.

"One day it will hurt the US economy too," said JD.com Chairman and Chief Executive Richard Liu , whose online retailer competes with bigger rival Alibaba.

China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd has taken sales of its low-price Honor brand of smartphones to 20 million from 1 million in just one year, hitting pay dirt with the disruptive online-only strategy it copied from smaller upstart Xiaomi Inc.