Since taking over as CEO from Claus-Dietrich Lahrs in 2016, Langer has been pivotal in shifting the company's focus to bolstering its online business and media exposure. These efforts have not been in vain - the company's global online sales in the final quarter of 2018 were up by double digits.
Since the rise of electronic payments also challenges central banks' status as the sole issuers of State-backed currency, discussions now center on whether the future payment model should be decentralized as distributed ledgers technology "are still needed", said Zhou, at a forum in November. "That could be the key issue that money issuers are concerned about the most.
Since the first China-UK Economic and Financial Dialogue in 2008, trade in goods and services between the two countries has more than doubled from 32 billion pounds to a record 69 billion pounds in 2018, with bilateral investment having almost tripled, according to the UK government.
Since March, Kondo has been living with a moving, talking hologram of Miku that floats in a ,800 desktop device.
Singletons play an important role in the domestic consumption market. They prefer convenience, entertainment and enjoyment in seeking a higher quality of life, according to Boston Consulting.
Since the handover of Hong Kong, the principles of "One Country, Two Systems", "Hong Kong people administering Hong Kong" and a high degree of autonomy have been implemented fully and the people have enjoyed unprecedented democracy and freedoms in Hong Kong. By contrast, during the times of British colonial rule, the people of Hong Kong never had democracy, human rights or freedoms. Despite Hong Kong being a special administrative region of China for 23 years, the UK side still seems unable to come to terms with this fact, vowing to "protect" and "safeguard" the freedoms of Hong Kong people which it never gave during its colonial rule, and even insisting on breaking its word and making changes to BNO arrangement. This reflects a typical, colonial mentality!
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Since the outbreak emerged in China, state-of-the-art technologies, including fifth generation wireless technology (5G), artificial intelligence, big data analysis, robots, cloud computing and drones, have been used widely not only in people's daily lives, but also in the fight against the pandemic.
Since then, however, nearly 90 percent of it has disappeared - destroyed over centuries to make way for coffee plantations, sugar cane fields, mining, cattle grazing or cities.
Since its establishment in 2013, Miniso has focused on low-end household goods, adopting a strategy of low cost, low gross profit and low price, and has expanded rapidly at home and abroad, riding on the waves of popularity of new retail.
Since last June, the number of riders using NFC payments has exceeded 1.3 million, with daily payments reaching 600,000. More than 50,000 top-ups were made daily in March, an increase of 138 percent over last month.