Chen Ping (born 1955) is a Chinese businessman, investor and media proprietor based in Hong Kong. He is chairman of Sun Television Cybernetworks Enterprise Limited and founded iSun Affairs Weekly Magazine in 2011.
Career Chen graduated from Anhui Mechanical and Electrical Engineering College in 1973. He subsequently became an investor and founded Sun Television in Hong Kong, which launched as a satellite channel in 2000.
In 2011, Chen founded iSun Affairs, a Chinese-language weekly magazine targeting readers in China and Southeast Asia. The publication won awards for its reporting but suspended its print edition in June 2013 to transition to a digital platform.
Chen later co-founded TideBit, a cryptocurrency exchange, through his TideiSun Group.
Attack On 3 June 2013, Chen was attacked by two baton-wielding men outside the Sino Favour Centre on Yip Street in Chai Wan, Hong Kong. The attackers struck him on the head; he was treated at Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital.
At a press conference on 5 June 2013, Chen said the attackers remained silent and he could not identify their motives. He reported suffering from tinnitus as a result. Police said the men had planned an escape route to avoid security cameras. The Oriental Daily News later sent a legal letter to Sun TV requesting removal of an online report; Sun TV declined to retract.
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