SEOUL - South Korean students on Thursday took an annual college entrance exam, seen as an all-important test in the education-obsessed country.
SAN FRANCISCO - US electric carmaker Tesla's board of directors said Friday night that its CEO Elon Musk has decided to drop his plan to take the company private.
SEOUL - The Democratic People's Republic said on Thursday it had successfully test-fired a new submarine-launched ballistic missile, or SLBM, from the sea to contain external threats and bolster self-defense, ahead of fresh nuclear talks with the United States.
SHIJIAZHUANG -- A group of Buddhist cliff carvings created during the Song Dynasty (960-1279) have been discovered in North China's Hebei province, according to local archaeologists.
SINGAPORE - Alipay, China's leading cashless payment platform and a subsidiary of Alibaba's related company, Ant Financial, on Tuesday signed a partnership agreement with a Singapore-based digital payment provider CCPay to offer cashless payment services to retailers in Singapore. According to the agreement, CCPay will help Alipay expand the use of the cashless payment platforms in Singapore so as to give convenience to Chinese tourists here. The cashless payments will be firstly introduced in merchants around the Chinatown area, said Jed Huang, Founder and Director of CC Financial Services, the owner of CCpay, at a press conference here on Tuesday, adding that there are plans for further expanding the services to other shopping malls in Singapore later. "With Alipay's scale and expertise in the field of cashless payments, this collaboration with CCPay will provide a platform for merchants to facilitate safe, fast and cashless payments for the Chinese tourists in Singapore," said Melvin Ooi, Alipay's country manager for Singapore, Sri Lanka and Maldives. According to Singapore Tourism Board, 1.3 million tourists from China visited Singapore from January to May 2017, many of whom have been used to shopping by swiping their phones over the Quick Response (QR) code provided by the retailers instead of paying in cash. Launched in 2004, Alipay currently has over 520 million active users, mostly in China. It is also expanding to in-store offline payments both inside and outside of China, which now are covering more than 200,000 retail stores overseas and support settlement of 18 currencies. CCPay, founded in March 2017, is a Singapore's digital payment solutions provider for online, mobile and in-store payment. It is one of the earliest companies to create QR payment in Singapore.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a statement that the strike launched by the US and its allies was "an act of aggression" against a sovereign state and Russia strongly condemns it.
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SINGAPORE - ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) needs to stay committed to trade liberalization and economic integration, Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong said here on Thursday.
SAIC Motor's shares in Shanghai rose 1.99 percent Monday.
SINGAPORE -- The upcoming China International Import Expo (CIIE) will bring hope and confidence to the global economy, an associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore has told Xinhua.
SEOUL -- Director general-level diplomats from South Korea and Japan held talks in Seoul Thursday amid the rising trade spat between the two countries.