In China, wallets could literally become obsolete as mobile payment rapidly sweeps the country, according to a recent study from payment tool Alipay.
In China several homegrown plant-based meat companies have inherited the long tradition and have been developing products to cater to local and international demand.
In France, President Emmanuel Macron told Agence France-Presse on Thursday that the country is on the verge of a novel coronavirus epidemic.
In Guiyang, Southwest China's Guizhou province, the world's first self-driving retailing vehicle developed by FlexBot, a local technology firm, has been successfully delivered to its buyers from the United States. The Chinese startup had encountered a tricky situation earlier, when one of its key component makers, based in Wuhan, had to shut down operations due to the COVID-19 epidemic.
In July, the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee announced Yuanfudao as an official sponsor of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. This will be the first time an online education company will be sponsoring the Olympics.
In December, the Singaporean government launched a .7 million initiative to find partners to jointly fund television content and film projects in Southeast Asia, according to The Straits Times.
珠海流体力学实验装置系列
In February, the Macao Government Tourism Office said visitor arrivals topped 32 million last year, a rise 5.4 percent from 2016.
In June, Barr ousted the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, Geoffrey Berman, while that office was investigating Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani.
In Friday's interbank market, the overnight Shanghai Interbank Offered Rate (Shibor), which measures the cost at which Chinese banks lend to one another, climbed slightly to 2.84 percent. The Shibor for one-month loans rose 0.62 basis point to 3.86 percent.
In February 2014, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, designated Dec 13 as National Memorial Day for victims of the massacre to mourn the deceased and expose the war crimes committed by Japanese invaders.