Ping An's net profit in the first half of 2017 totaled 43.4 billion yuan, increasing 6.5 percent year-on-year. China Pacific's net profit totaled 6.5 billion yuan, increasing 6 percent year-on-year. The two insurers will publish their third quarter financial reports on Saturday.
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Police in Guangdong province have detained 53 economic fugitives in the past six months with help from counterparts in Brazil, Myanmar, Vietnam and New Zealand.
Pitch@Palace, founded in 2014 by Prince Andrew, Duke of York, serves as a platform for global entrepreneurs to build connectivity around the world by gaining access to potential investors, mentors and business partners. So far, it has provided support for nearly 2,000 startups worldwide.
Police in Yunnan, a major front in China's battle against drug crime as it borders the Golden Triangle, busted six drugs cases involving over 100 kg of drugs since January.
Politico reported that the former New York mayor's spending on ads in the roughly three weeks since late November is more than double the combined ad spending of every single non-billionaire candidate in the Democratic field this entire year.
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Piglets are held in pens at a modern pig farm in Beijing, on April 30, 2018. [Photo by Wu Bo/For China Daily]
Pichai has made AI the foundation of his strategy since becoming Google's CEO in late 2015, emphasizing that technology is rapidly evolving from a "mobile-first" world, where smartphones steer the services that companies are building, to an "AI-first" world, where the computers supplement the users' brains.
Police officer inspect the body of a young woman murdered outskirts Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in 2009. Central America is the most dangerous region to live, according to a study by the United Nations. [Photo/IC]
Photo taken on April 12, 2017 shows a beef noodle set at a restaurant in Lanzhou city, capital of Northwest China's Gansu province,. Lanzhou is known for its beef noodles made into different shapes. Thousands of restaurants in the city are reported to sell more than one million bowls of beef noodles a day. In many other cities in China people can also easily find beef noodle restaurants. [Photo/Xinhua]