Restrictions on physical gatherings due to the epidemic are forcing people to embrace online apps such as games and short videos.
Ruan Zongze, executive vice-president of the China Institute of International Studies, said BRICS cooperation has the vitality and potential to promote global economic growth and has contributed more than half the world's GDP.
Riotous mobs in Hong Kong defaced the windshield of a double-decker bus, forcing the driver to lean his head outside the bus for better visibility on Tuesday.
Roughly 45 percent of e-commerce sales on Thanksgiving were mobile purchases, a 24 percent increase over a year ago. Approximately 63 percent of traffic on Thanksgiving came from smartphones.
Rising seas are a great threat to Indonesia, where millions of people currently live in low-lying coastal areas across 17,508 islands that make up the archipelago, as well as to island nations across the Pacific.
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Results reported last week from Apple, Microsoft and Google show they also benefited, to varying degrees, from their efforts to expand beyond their traditional businesses and further into cloud infrastructure and subscription services in recent years.
Robin Xing, Morgan Stanley's chief China economist, said in the report: "While investors perceive larger cities as offering the most important consumer base, we believe that lower-tier cities will be bigger, wealthier and more eager to spend, and could contribute two-thirds of incremental growth in national private consumption toward 2030."
Rumors had hence been swirling about Abe's health, but had been largely downplayed by senior officials, even just hours before Abe's nationally-broadcast news conference Friday at which he confirmed his time at the top had come to an end.
Roads in the vicinity were also jammed due to the number of people flocking to the store.