On a bluestone road, performers in ancient Chinese costumes charge on horses, stretching their arms and shouting all the way through.
On Tuesday night, the ministry issued a set of guidelines requiring real-name ticketing along with tourists' contact and transportation information and encouraging full use of big data-powered technology to monitor tourist information in real time as scenic attractions have gradually started reopening.
On the one hand, rules of the A-share market should be revamped to attract rapidly growing startups to debut here, and to draw floats of Chinese quality corporates listed overseas.
On the economic front, in the week ending Feb 2, US initial jobless claims registered 234,000, a decrease of 19,000 from the previous week's unrevised level, the Department of Labor reported on Thursday. The reading missed market consensus.
On infrastructure development, Josette Sheeran, president and CEO of the Asia Society, said infrastructure gap is not just about roads, but about quality of human lives and the ability of societies to reduce poverty.
On one hand, the 36-year-old Malaysian is hopeful, as the gradual reopening of offices and businesses means she can finally process the papers needed to obtain a temporary residence visa allowing her to stay and work in the island nation.
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On the logistics front, Alibaba-backed courier Cainiao, together with Lazada, will set up an e-commerce hub at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia as a part of the duty free trade zone.
On Tuesday, Amazon announced plans to raise the minimum wage its employees receive to per hour. That includes Whole Foods employees and warehouse workers.
On Thursday, the Nasdaq Composite index crossed the 9,000-point mark for the first time as all three major Wall Street indexes posted record closing highs, boosted by optimism over US-China trade relations and gains in shares of Amazon, which climbed 4.4 percent.
On Wednesday, West Texas Intermediate crude, the guideline for US prices, rose one cent to .82 a barrel. Brent crude, the worldwide benchmark, dipped 31 cents to .26 a barrel.