Then Hong Kong is up there as well. At the other ends African countries, Chad, Nigeria, Lesotho are closer to 53 years life expectancy, which would be a 30-year gap. Or put another way, the life expectancy in the U.S. in 1911 was 53 years. So, 100 years ago that's what the life expectancy was in the U.S. These numbers, according to Our World in Data.
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Luxury brands are also getting a boost from Chinese tourists; Guiony said “offshore” sales from Chinese consumers in places like Hong Kong and Macau are growing faster than those from the mainland. Personal luxury retail sales in China will jump 12.9% this year, per our forecast.
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| Apr 13, 2023
The report surveyed 800 C-suite and senior compliance decision-makers in the US, Canada, UK, French, Germany, Netherlands, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia.
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| Jan 23, 2023
Standard Chartered’s Alex Manson, who runs its SC Ventures unit, said that Thought Machine is providing core services for its digital banks in both Hong Kong and Singapore. The company also counts Lloyds—it led its Series A round and is part of the new one— and SEB as clients and investors. Thought Machine said it will use its proceeds to continue building out Vault, its core banking product.
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| Nov 30, 2021
Further, Beijing denied Didi permission to float its shares in Hong Kong, per Fortune. The company cannot apply to list in another public market until Beijing says it has completed its rectification measures, Didi said.
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| May 25, 2022
China’s lockdowns are costing the country at least 335 million yuan ($46 million) a month, or 3.1% of GDP, in lost economic output according to economists at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. That’s one reason we expect China’s ecommerce sales will increase by 9.1% this year, the lowest growth since we began our tracking in 2008.
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| Nov 2, 2022
The cost of logistics has risen steeply with freight rates jumping $13 per kilogram between Hong Kong and North American hubs. Surging gas prices are expected to drive up costs of transporting goods. The airspace ban by and against Russia, which has 11 time zones, will increase the cost of transportation of goods in and around Europe and overseas.
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| Mar 15, 2022
Sixty-nine percent of users in the US, the UK, India, United Arab Emirates, and Hong Kong couldn’t send messages, 24% had troubles with server connections, and 7% had problems with the overall app. WhatsApp for Business, the company’s corporate messaging solution, similarly saw a spike in user complaints. Meta acknowledged the outage was a result of an error on their part.
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| Oct 26, 2022
The lockdowns are likely costing the country at least 335 million yuan ($46 million) a month, or 3.1% of GDP, in lost economic output according to economists at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. As of October 27, 31 cities are under some form of lockdown, accounting for one in six people in China and 24.5% of its gross domestic product, per Bloomberg.
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| Nov 2, 2022
Instead, Google opted to redirect searches through its less-filtered Hong Kong site. Within months, Google services became inaccessible to most Chinese users. For Google, losses from ditching China’s relatively small market were less than the potential brand deterioration it would receive in other, larger markets for being associated with censoring search.
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| Nov 4, 2021
Eventually, it will delist from the New York Stock Exchange and offer shares in Hong Kong to make amends for its perceived political offenses against Beijing. In the meantime, dozens of new ride-hailing players will battle it out before one or two emerge as the primary new competitors. Trend: Short-Form Video Players Will Become Formidable Ecommerce Players.
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| Dec 15, 2021
China and the advanced economies of the Asia-Pacific region (Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong) will all be trudging along in the single digits by 2024, with many in the very low single digits. The story in Asia-Pacific will soon center on India and Southeast Asia, where growth will remain robust for the rest of our forecast period.
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| Feb 2, 2022
Asia-Pacific will no longer produce huge increases in new social network users, but the sheer scale of the region means it should remain front and center for social media marketers. Facebook will remain on top, but TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat are making waves.
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