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The global shipments of virtual reality (VR) headsets are forecast to surge by 43.6 percent year on year to 15.73 million units in 2022, according to an industry report.The worldwide market for augmented reality (AR) and VR headsets jumped 92.1 percent year over year in 2021, with shipments reaching...
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Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Monday extended an invitation to all political parties to join the government to find solutions to the ongoing crisis in the country.The invitation came hours after cabinet ministers resigned from their posts.In a statement, the President's Media Divisi...
A recent industry report has highlighted China's impressive advances in computing power, ranking the country as one of the best among major economies in the field.The report, jointly released by the Tsinghua University, the International Data Corporation and Chinese IT firm Inspur Information, c...
China will raise the retail prices of gasoline and diesel from Friday, the country's top economic planner said on Thursday.The prices of gasoline and diesel will both increase by 110 yuan (about 17.33 U.S. dollars) per tonne in the seventh consecutive upward adjustment since the end of last year...
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Over 40,000 pieces of wreckage from a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region had been recovered by Wednesday, an official told a pressbriefing on Thursday.Most of the wreckage pieces have been transferred to a storage site for sorting and furt...
The number of 5G connections in China is expected to reach 892 million by the end of 2025, according to a recent analysis by GSMA, an international association of mobile operators.This figure is higher than GSMA's forecast around half a year ago at the World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit, de...
Chinese soybean grower Du Zhentao is buying soybean seeds and planning to double his soybean planting area.Du in his 50s lives in Hailun, known as China's major growing area of quality soybean, in Heilongjiang Province. He plans to grow more than 20,000 mu (about 1,333 hectares) of soybean this ...
China will implement value-added tax (VAT) credit refund on a large scale to provide strong underpinnings for keeping the operations of market entities stable and maintaining job security, as part of effort to sustain stable macroeconomic performance, the State Council's Executive Meeting chaire...
China Telecom Co., Ltd. (China Telecom), one of China's three largest telecom operators, reported a profit surge in 2021.Net profits of the company jumped 24.5 percent year on year to 25.95 billion yuan (about 4.09 billion U.S. dollars) last year, the company said in an announcement filed with t...
Chinese President Xi Jinping had a video call with US President Joe Biden at the request of the latter on Friday. The two Presidents had a candid and in-depth exchange of views on China-U.S. relations, the situation in Ukraine, and other issues of mutual interest.President Biden said that 50 years a...
Newly-released economic data for the first two months of this year show China's economy has recovered better than expected, with strong rebounds seen in key areas.Overseas observers say the Chinese economy has shown good resilience in the face of pressures and challenges, expecting greater poten...
Malaysia reported 22,535 new Covid-19 infections as of midnight Sunday, bringing the national total to 3,823,571, according to the health ministry.There are 361 new imported cases, with 22,174 being local transmissions, data released on the ministry's website showed. A further 87 deaths have bee...
Sitting behind a microphone in a wheelchair, Ma Qiong recorded for an audiobook, bringing various characters to life through her wonderful voice."I never thought I could someday earn a steady income using my voice just by working from the ease of home with only a computer and recording equipmen...
As the Covid-19 pandemic enters its third year, a cluster of new studies show that about a third of US children in the youngest grades are missing reading benchmarks, up significantly from before the pandemic, reported The New York Times on Tuesday."Children in every demographic group have been...
China's greater emphasis on cultivating competitive small and medium-sized enterprises will help further stabilize the industrial chain and trigger the vitality of its industrial economy, officials and experts said.The comments came after the 2022 Government Work Report said China will work to n...
Chinese President Xi Jinping had a virtual summit with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday.Xi pointed out that the combined impact of major global changes and the pandemic, both unseen in a century, has brought multiple global challenges that need to be addr...
China's State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday stressed that the Taiwan question differs in nature from the Ukraine issue and the two are not comparable at all.The biggest difference lies in the fact that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory and the Taiwan ...
China will carry out major reform measures to further stimulate growth and reduce pressure on its economic and social development, the country's top economic planner said Monday.Reforms will focus on five areas, including stimulating the vitality of market entities, stabilizing growth, expanding...
Carrying 100 imported cars from the United Arab Emirates, the rail-sea intermodal trains departed from south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on March 4 and are expected to arrive in the city of Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, on Wednesday, according to railway authorities...
Amid the great challenges and uncertainties in the world today, China has put sci-tech innovation high on its agenda to boost competitiveness, growth drivers and sustainability for future development.China will promote scientific and technological innovation, so as to upgrade industries, eliminate t...
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