本期内容: With QR codes becoming a popular payment option, Alipay and Wechat Pay, two major third-party mobile payment tools in China, will run campaigns in August to bring more merchants and customers into the cashless world. Wechat Pay's Cash

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本期内容: A significant Brexit transitional deal should be agreed as soon as possible, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs International has said. This is to stop jobs being moved from the UK to Europe, Richard Gnodde told the BBC. At the mome

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本期内容: Walmart, the US biggest retail chain, has been accused of trying to coerce its technology suppliers into shunning Amazon's cloud computing service. Amazon has accused its rival of attempting to bully the IT companies into picking a ri

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本期内容: Plant life on both poles is growing rapidly as the planet warms. A new study has found a steady growth of moss in Antarctica over the last 50 years as temperatures increased as a result of climate change. The continued retreat of glac

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本期内容: In Americas deadliest-ever shooting, a gunmanwith Is**mist sympathies, police saidkilled 50 people and injured 53 in an attack on Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old American citizen of Afghan origin

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本期内容: ChineseconsumerssmashedlastyearsrecordforpurchasesonSinglesDay,theworldsbiggestonline-shoppingfrenzy.Alibaba,ane-commercegiant,saidthat91.2billionyuanwasspentonitsvariouswebsites,two-thirdsofitfrommobiledevices.In2014shoppersforkedout

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本期内容: Skywatchers will be treated to the longest blood moon eclipse of the 21st Century on Friday. As it rises, during this total eclipse, Earth's natural satellite will turn a striking shade of red or ruddy brown. The totality period, when

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本期内容: Fans of Downton Abbey can breathe a sigh of reliefa film of the hugely successful TVseries has finally been confirmed after much speculation. Theoriginal principal cast will begin production later this summer,the film's producers said

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本期内容: A competition helping to drive development of the futuristic hyperloop transport system has been won by engineering students from Munich. The hyperloop idea involves passengers in pods travelling at very high speeds down sealed tunnel

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本期内容: Friday's catastrophic tsunami event on Sulawesi Island is a puzzle. As the emergency response gathers pace, scientists are scratching their heads to understand why it generated such big waves. The quake was what geophysicists call a s

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本期内容: When historians look back on the summer of 2018, they will talk about the record-breaking heatwave, the World Cup and Levi's T-shirts. On the train, in the park, at the art gallery; they are everywhere. Levi's says that revenues from

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本期内容: The World Health Organisation warned that Zika, a mosquito-borne virus linked to brain deformation in human fetuses, is likely to spread to every country in the Americas except Canada and Chile. Brazil has reported 3,893 cases of micr

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本期内容: Leaders from nearly 200 nations signed an agreement to phase out hydro fluorocarbons, chemicals used in refrigeration and air conditioning. In the 1980s the Montreal Protocol replaced chlorofluorocarbons, which were known to harm the

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本期内容: A former member of a death squad in the Philippines told lawmakers that the squad had killed about 1,000 people over 25 years on the orders of Rodrigo Duterte, then a mayor, now president. Edgar Matobato said targets were chiefly crim

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本期内容: Huawei said that it shipped 108m smartphones last year, 44% more than in 2014, cementing it in third place behind Apple and Samsung. Its consumer divisions sales grew by almost 70%, to more than $20 billion. Last month the Chinese tel

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本期内容: Trading in Chinas stockmarkets was suspended yesterday after the CSI 300 index dropped by 7%, triggering new circuit-breakersand sharp falls elsewhere. Britains FTSE 100 shed 2.4% and Germanys DAX 4.3%; the SP 500 was 2.3% down shortl

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本期内容: TalksinParisoncurbingclimatechangeendedlastweekendinadealrequiringthe190-oddparticipatingcountriestocuttheiremissions.Theaimistoholdtheincreaseintheglobalaveragetemperaturetowellbelow2Cabovepre-industriallevelsandtotrytolimititto1.5C.

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本期内容: Satellite mapping of sea-surface heights sug*ests that the strong El Nio weather phenomenon resembles that of 1997-98, one of the strongest on record, according to Americas space agency, NASA. The current El Nio has been blamed for dr

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本期内容: Oilfelltoan11-yearlow.ThepriceofBrentcrude,themaininternationalbenchmark,reached$36.05,theweakestsinceJuly2004.ItsAmericancounterpart,WestTexasIntermediate,felltoitslowestsince2009.LoomingIranianexportsarelikelytoaddtothesupplyglutcau

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本期内容: Sally Bunkham founded her online retail business nearly two years ago after the birth of her second child. To begin with, she says, she didn't mind being labelled a mumpreneur. But as I've gone through my business journey I've realise

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