In UK schools, Chinese children perform better than any other ethnic group, including white Britons. In exams taken at the age of 16, 77 per cent of Chinese achieved five good grades, 20 per cent above the national average. Subsequently, Chinese students’ university entrance rate - 58 percent - is also the highest of all ethnic groups.
In South China's island province Hainan, thanks to the new duty-free policy, sales of offshore duty-free shopping reached 8.57 billion yuan during the first six months, up 30.7 percent year-on-year.
In October, the World Bank released the Doing Business 2020 report that measures regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. China ranked 31st among all the 190 surveyed economies, significantly up from the 46th a year earlier and 78th registered two years ago. Shanghai's contribution was weighed at 55 percent while the rest came from Beijing.
In March, the CSRC slapped a 3.47 billion yuan fine on a company chairman for stock market manipulation, a record high.
In September 2018, another 50 million users had their information exposed. And separately, in 2018, Facebook was found to have improperly harvested data from millions with a company called Cambridge Analytica. In July, it settled a case for billion with the Federal Trade Commission over mishandling user data.
In November 2015, a tailings dam collapsed at a mine in Mariana, also in Minas Gerais, killing 19 people and causing what was considered Brazil's worst environmental disaster. Vale was a co-owner of the mine.
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In Taikoo Li Sanlitun, an energetic and vibrant shopping destination in Beijing, more than 20 store venues have been altered.
In November, Zuckerberg told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Facebook didn't view Instagram as a direct competitor in 2012.
In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Trump had recently been complimentary about their dealings on fighting the virus, but that changed Tuesday when the governor bristled at Trump's call for the nation to get back to work in April. Cuomo also made a blunt plea for more ventilators.
In Sunday's election, the 67-year-old garnered more than 3.66 million votes, or 60 percent of those cast, securing a landslide victory. Her nearest rival, Kenji Utsunomiya, a candidate backed by the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, won 14 percent of the vote.