In March, the bank agreed to grant 1 percent of its annual profit to fintech-related project innovation.
In May, the company rolled out its first health product-"Daily Benefits"-which focuses on anti-oxidation. The product targets female consumers and the company will later expand to a larger range of consumers.
In November 2018, biologist He Jiankui pushed mankind across a controversial threshold when he announced he had created the world's first gene-edited babies in an attempt to make them less susceptible to AIDS.
In Lam's policy address, housing and land supply is treated as a stand-alone chapter, demonstrating HKSAR government's determination to solve the housing problem. Measures tackling it include developing land resources and increasing the ratio of public housing.
In September, it reached an agreement with the Hong Kong Science Park to build the first MindSphere-based digitalization center for a smart city.
In October, the UN panel issued a special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 C above preindustrial levels. It highlighted a number of effects that could be avoided by limiting global warming to 1.5 C instead of 2 C, the goal set in the Paris climate agreement.
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In New York City alone, fintech investment overall has increased from 216 million dollars in 2010 to 2.4 billion dollars in 2016.
In Vietnam's northern Lang Son province bordering China, many shops-cum-warehouses can store 500-1,000 tons of fruit, mostly litchi and longan, each. Every summer, one shop in the province's Dong Dang border town sells, on average, 40 tons of fruit, local traders said.
In May, global index provider MSCI roughly doubled A shares' weighting in its indexes, followed by its competitor FTSE Russell's adding A shares into its global benchmarks in June.
In March alone, growth came in at 6 percent, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).