China to facilitate Hong Kong IPOs and expand Stock Connect China will facilitate Hong Kong listings by leading Chinese companies and expand the Stock Connect cross-border investment scheme to promote Hong Kong's status as a global financial centre, China's ... 04/19/2024 - 12:32 am | View Link
China plays up Alibaba, Shein’s role in promoting cross-border e-commerce at ‘digital silk road’ forum, as exports rise China’s tech champions, including online shopping behemoth Alibaba Group Holding and fast-fashion shopping platform Shein, play an important role in facilitating cross-border e-commerce ... 04/16/2024 - 3:25 pm | View Link
China’s Suzhou city plans supercharged cross-border e-commerce business after Shein and Temu success China’s export and import trading volume of cross-border e-commerce reached 2.38 trillion yuan last year, up 15.6 per cent year on year, according to China customs data. The figure is expected ... 04/11/2024 - 11:00 am | View Link
China Expands Market Access in Cross-Border Services with Release of New Negative Lists At the same time, the lists relax restrictions in certain fields and lay the groundwork for future market access expansion in China’s cross-border services trade. China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) ... 03/31/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
China to issue new rules on market access, cross-border data flows, Premier Li tells global CEOs CHINA will carefully study issues of market access and cross-border data flows and will soon ... Li said at the China Development Forum in Beijing. China’s inflation rate and the central government’s ... 03/23/2024 - 10:14 pm | View Link
Elliot Page says he experienced a mixture of feelings when he came out as transgender on an Instagram post in 2021.
“I felt utterly elated and beyond grateful to finally be in a place where I could accept and love myself and do what I needed to and wanted to,” the 37-year-old actor, director, and LGBTQ+ activist told the audience at the 2024 TIME100 Summit in New York City on Wednesday.
Dust clouds from the Sahara desert in North Africa have blown across the Mediterranean Sea and turned Greece’s sky orange on Tuesday. Historic landmarks in the country’s capital Athens, including the ancient citadel of Acropolis, were blanketed in orange dust.
One image, taken from the famous Tourkovounia hills that bisect the city of Athens, shows a man in a face mask taking a photo of the Mars-like view of the city.
King Charles III bestowed honors on his family members and nobles, including a new historically significant title for his daughter-in-law, Kate Middleton.
The King appointed the Princess of Wales to be a Royal Companion of The Order of the Companions of Honour on Tuesday, St George’s Day. The order was founded by King George V in 1917 to recognize outstanding achievements and major contributions over a long period of time to the arts, sciences, medicine, and public service.
As India’s marathon election kicked off its first voting phase last Friday, April 19, unemployment was looming large in the minds of millions of voters—despite the country’s rapid economic growth. Since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, economists have been quick to serve India on a silver platter as a powerful rival to China, particularly for its global manufacturing, investment, and growth capabilities.
North Korea sent its highest-level delegation to Iran in about five years as the U. S. raised concerns that arms sales from Pyongyang and Tehran have helped fuel conflicts in the Middle East and Russia’s war in Ukraine.
In a rare public report of the trip, the official Korean Central News Agency said in a one-sentence dispatch the North Korean delegation led by External Economic Relations Minister Yun Jong Ho left Pyongyang for Tehran on Tuesday.
The International Monetary Fund issued a most unusual rebuttal this month. Its spokeswoman Julie Kozack told reporters in Washington that executive director Krishnamurthy Subramanian’s growth forecast of 8% for India did not represent the views of the IMF, which still maintained a projection of 6.5% for the country.
Subramanian’s views—expressed at an event in New Delhi a few days earlier—were in his role as India’s representative at the IMF, she said.