Phurbu Tsering looks after other people's yaks as a member of the village animal husbandry cooperative. The animals are the collective's physical assets.
Playing the long-game can be risky as tech giants compete to get third-party developers to build capabilities for the digital assistants and hardware makers to put them into their products. There remains a cautionary tale with Windows Phone, a well-made operating system and set of smartphones that failed to make a dent in the marketshare of Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android because there wasn’t an appetite among developers for a third major operating system.
Ping An's online wealth management platform, Lufax Holdings, became profitable for the first time in 2017 and is planning a Hong Kong listing this year that could value the spinoff at about billion.
Photo provided by Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore on Sept 13, 2017 shows four tug boats moving the partially submerged sand dredger to an area near Singapore's Pulau Senang. [Photo/Xinhua]
Polls and political analysts predict the state's nine House of Representatives seats will remain in Democratic hands, along with the seat held by US Senator Elizabeth Warren, a leading liberal voice often cited as a possible 2020 White House contender.
Pollution measures: One of China's "three tough battles" for the next three years is against pollution. There is no better gauge than the clear and blue skies in Beijing this winter to demonstrate the effects of China's anti-pollution drive.
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Photographer Kim Weston, who has had his work introduced into China through a variety of channels, including exhibitions and publications, is carrying on a tradition begun by his celebrated grandfather. yiming huang / china daily
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Pintec Technology Holdings Ltd, which operates an online platform that facilitates merchant financing in China, raised million in an initial public offering on the Nasdaq Stock Market in New York Thursday.
Pingan Technology and Ping An's fintech arm OneConnect entered the top three, while Ping An Life Insurance, Ping An Property Insurance and Ping An HealthKonnect entered the top 10 ranking.