Alibaba’s Jack Ma makes first public appearance since October in online meeting

Alibaba founder Jack Ma has met with 100 rural teachers in China via a video meeting, making his first public appearance since October, state media has reported.

Social media speculation over the whereabouts of China’s highest-profile entrepreneur swirled this month after news reports that he missed the final episode of a TV show featuring him as a judge, amid a regulatory clampdown by Beijing on his sprawling business empire.

Ma had not appeared in public since a late…