James Murdoch and the former head of Walt Disney’s Asia operations, Uday Shankar, are looking at setting up a special purpose acquisition vehicle to buy Asian media or technology companies. Murdoch, the ex CEO of 21st Century Fox, and Shankar join others eyeing the Asian market which have produced eye-popping IPOs, such as the stock market debut of Kuaishou, a Chinese short video app whose...
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