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AliExpress doubles down on logistics for global edge By HE WEI in Shanghai | China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-15 09:12 AliExpress employees work at the companys headquarters in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. The firm plans to expand business in South Korea and Brazil in the coming years. [Photo/Agencies] AliExpress, Alibaba Groups business-to-customer or B2C site that sells consumer goods to overseas markets, is doubling down on logistics this year to drive "robus...

By BO LEUNG in London | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-04-15 09:16 Share CLOSE Buses travel down the empty Oxford Street, as the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions begin to ease, in London, Britain, April 9, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] Consumer spending in the United Kingdom fell 7.2 percent in March compared to the same period in 2019 but there are signs of hope for the travel industry as Britons start to book post-lockdown trips and activi...

Fukushima decision roils certain Chinese stocks By SHI JING in Shanghai | China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-15 09:01 Share CLOSE An aerial view shows the storage tanks for treated water at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan on Feb 13, 2021, in this photo taken by Kyodo. [Photo/Agencies] Stocks of fishery and environmental protection companies listed in Chinas A-share market...

Bairong sees strong rebound in Q1 By Cheng Yu | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-04-15 18:17 Bairong Inc, a Chinese provider of financial big data analytics and other services, has gained strong business momentum by earning a total of 409 million yuan ($62.58 million) in revenue in the first quarter of this year. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Bairong Inc, a Chinese provider of financial big data analytics and other services, has gained strong business...

Commercialization of sci-tech gathering pace By Zhang Yangfei | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-04-15 14:41 Share [Photo/IC] China recently released the annual report on the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements in 2020, showing continuous vibrant activities in the transformation of scientific and technological results. The report indicates that 3,450 universities and academic institutes across the country signed 15,0...

By JULIAN SHEA in London | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-04-15 10:02 Share CLOSE A person looks at the adverts in the window of a job agency in London, Oct 13, 2020. [Photo/Agencies] Young black people have been hit harder by unemployment in the United Kingdom over the course of the novel coronavirus pandemic than any other demographic, a study by the Resolution Foundation think tank has revealed. Successive lockdowns have had a pa...

Benins Patrice Talon reelected with 86 percent of vote By Otiato Opali in Nairobi, Kenya | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-04-14 17:02 Benins president Patrice Talon casts his ballot at a polling station in Cotonou, Benin, April 11, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] Patrice Talon, Benins incumbent president, has won a majority of votes cast in the first round of presidential elections held on Sunday, according to provisional results released Tuesday by the National and...

China Telecom expands network in Xinjiang By Mao Weihua in Urumqi | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-04-15 15:07 Share Tourists visit the Kanas Nature Reserve in Altay prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. [Photo/XINHUA] The China Telecom branch in Xinjiangs Altay prefecture has made remarkable progress in increasing mobile network coverage and broadband availability in Hemu village, Burqin county. From 2015 to 2020, the annual growth ...

SOURCE / ECONOMY By Global Times Published: Apr 15, 2021 07:43 PM Tourists admire the skyline view of Lujiazui area at the Bund in Shanghai, east China, Jan. 6, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Xiang) After surpassing the US as the worlds biggest recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2020, China continues to see rapid growth in foreign investment this year, as confidence in the country growth prospect and opening-up further improves.  In the first three months of the year, China drew 10,263 new...

Iran boosts uranium enrichment By AFP Published: Apr 14, 2021 06:43 PM Irans President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday its decision to boost uranium enrichment to 60 percent is a response to Israels "terrorism," days after an attack on its Natanz nuclear facility. "Enabling IR-6 [centrifuges] at Natanz today, or bringing ­enrichment to 60 percent: This is the response to your malice," Rouhani said in a message aimed at arch-enemy Israel, in televised remarks.  "What you did was nuclear te...