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China Duty Free Group Co., Ltd. (CDFG), a state-owned enterprise operating duty-free business, expects its profits to surge in the first half of the year, the company said in a statement filed with the Shanghai Stock Exchange.   Net profit attributable to equity shareholders is estimated to reach 5.44 billion yuan (about 842 million U.S. dollars) for the first half of 2021, almost five times the figure compared with the same period last year, according to the statement.   Operating revenue ju...

In the wee hours one day recently in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, Li Guang, 33, shut down his PC finally and prepared to go to bed. But his mind continued to churn data on the trade he had just executed. He added shares of Weibo, a Nasdaq-listed Chinese social network company, to his investment portfolio, a task that required Li to stay awake to play the US market operating in a different time zone.   Li is getting used to life as a night owl, a first step toward becoming a successful part-ti...

GERB-UDF coalition party leads in Bulgarias early parliamentary elections by a narrow margin, according to exit polls announced by the Bulgarian National TV on Sunday.   According to Alpha Research Agencys exit poll, GERB-UDF is expected to have 23.5 percent of the votes, against 22.3 percent for There Is Such A People.   The exit poll by Gallup International said that GERB-UDF is leading the elections with 22.1 percent, and There Is Such A People takes 21.5 percent.   Alpha Research said th...

The confirmed death toll in the residential building collapse in Surfside, southeastern U.S. state of Florida, rose to 90 with 31 people remaining potentially unaccounted for, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said on Sunday, the eighteenth day of the tragedy.   "Our hearts and minds are always with those who weve lost and the families who are grieving, and those who are still waiting," said Levine Cava at the daily media briefing.   She said that more than 14 million pounds of deb...

Chinese commercial banks are likely to see their profits grow by around 3 percent in both the second and third quarters of 2021, forecast the Bank of China Research Institute in a recent report.   In the first half of the year, obvious signs of improvement were seen in the profitability of Chinas banking sector, while the asset quality was stable, said the report.   Net profits of Chinese commercial banks in the first quarter rose 2.4 percent year on year to total 614.3 billion yuan (about 95...

  A little recognized and probably unappreciated fact about Chinas remarkable reform and opening-up policy of the last 40-odd years, piloted ably by the Communist Party of China (CPC), is there is more to it than attracting foreign investments and technologies to stoke development in China, investors, economists and researchers said.   Reform and opening-up, including that in the financial services industry, are also about China growing in a spirit of win-win, to benefit the rest of the world...

Over the last two years, Italys massive tourism sector has been a study in contrasts: first too many tourists crowding the countrys most popular spots, then almost none at all. Now, the sector is seeking to strike the right balance between the two extremes.   Before the coronavirus pandemic arrived in Italy, the big worry about tourism was over-crowding: the impact on infrastructure, the environment, and the quality of life of residents from many millions of tourists who clustered in a handful...

Space tourism company Virgin Galactic completed its first fully crewed test flight of its spacecraft on Sunday, making a giant leap toward commercial suborbital spaceflight.   The mission, dubbed "Unity 22," was the companys fourth crewed spaceflight, and the 22nd flight test for the companys spacecraft VSS Unity.   It was also the first to carry a full crew of two pilots and four mission specialists in the cabin, including founder of Virgin Galactic Richard Branson, who was testing the priva...

A male Asian elephant that strayed from its wild herd a month ago was returned to Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve in southwestern Chinas Yunnan province on Wednesday afternoon.   It left Xishuangbanna last year with 16 other elephants and the herd headed north. Two of the elephants returned to the nature reserve early this year.   After traveling more than 500 kilometers, the male elephant left the herd on June 6. The other 14 are still roaming in Xinping county, according to the comman...

Chinese travelers enthusiasm to venture out at night has been rising along with daytime temperatures, and COVID-19 being brought under better control in the country is also helping matters. Rising demand for after-dark activities is driving tourism and forcing service providers to upgrade their offerings.   In the first six months, admission ticket sales to nighttime sightseeing and tourist spots and other entertainment venues surged 469 percent year-on-year, with female visitors making up for...