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Dan Levin, 昔日加拿大华人创业 '明星' 起落记. 纽约时报中文网, July 11, 2018
https://cn.nytimes.com/business/ ... -yian-canada-china/

, which is translated from

Dan Levin. Tech Mogul Dazzled Canada. Then He Fled to China. New York Times, July 11, 2018.

Note:
(a) "In June 2017, Canada waived a security review for a Chinese takeover of Norsat International, a Vancouver high-tech company that provided satellite technology to the United States military."

Norsat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norsat
(full name: Norsat International Inc; based in Richmond (the southern neighbor of Vancouver], British Columbia, Canada; In 2017 Norsat was sold to Hytera Communications [深圳 海能达通信股份有限公司], a Chinese telecom company for CAD $85 million)
(b) "Mr Sun's company, Istuary Innovation Group 溢思得瑞科技创新集团 * * * Mr Sun, 45, who goes by the name Ethan, founded Istuary in 2013 in a Vancouver Starbucks"
(c) "Kuang'en Network Technologies 匡恩网络科技有限责任公司, a cybersecurity company he founded in Beijing in 2014, specialized in industrial control systems for some of China’s biggest state-owned enterprises."
(d) Former Istuary employees in Vancouver said the company's collapse began last spring [2017] with a series of missed payrolls and final paychecks in May 2017. Many stayed at their jobs anyway."

payroll (n):
"1 : a paymaster's or employer's list of those entitled to pay and of the amounts due to each
2 : the sum necessary for distribution to those on a payroll; also : the money to be distributed"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/payroll

Definition 2 fits the bill.