Shares of Tencent, NetEase rise as China gaming crackdown ends - Reuters

HONG KONG, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Shares of Tencent Holdings (0700.HK), the world's largest gaming company, and smaller rival NetEase Inc (9999.HK) roseate connected Wednesday aft China's video games regulator granted the archetypal gaming licences successful 2023, further easing an manufacture crackdown.

Tencent's shares were acceptable to unfastened up 1.7%, portion NetEase's banal was acceptable to leap 4.8%.

Reporting By Anne Marie Roantree; Editing by Jacqueline Wong

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