The offshore yuan traded at 6.6766 per dollar after falling to 6.7249 overnight. The People's Bank of China set the daily reference rate at 6.6726, stronger than estimates compiled by Bloomberg. The onshore currency climbed 0.2 percent.
The official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a commentary Monday night that Kim Jong-un, top leader of the DPRK, "clarified bold and compatriotic stand and proposal for improving inter-Korean relations in his New Year Address."
The office has been in touch with the families of the mainland victims and are helping them to visit Taiwan.
The number of private hospitals in China surpassed 17,000 in the first half of this year, accounting for 57.5 percent of the total across the country, according to the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
The officer who fired his service revolver exercised great restraint, and his use of force was necessary and reasonable, said Mak Chin-ho, assistant commissioner of police operations, saying the officer was facing a "life-or-death" situation and his decision to fire was in self-defense.
The number of users who use the app for making medical appoints and paying bills almost tripled.
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The official data released by the National Bureau of Statistics last week said that the country's non-manufacturing PMI slightly climbed to 54.8 in November, up from 54.3 in October.
The number of workplace accidents from January to June plunged by 25.4 percent year-on-year to 2,240, while the death toll in those accidents dropped by 17.4 percent to 1,620, Su Jie, a State Administration of Work Safety official, said at a news conference.
The observatory maintained a blue alert for a cold wave Thursday, as temperatures in central and eastern China continue to decline due to the cold front.
The online healthcare market was valued at about 200 million yuan (.8 million) in 2009, but soared to 22.3 billion yuan in 2016, and is estimated to exceed 90 billion yuan by 2020, according to a Sootoo Research Institute report.