Chinese consumers collectively spent 158.31 billion yuan (US$22.63 billion) in the first nine hours of Alibaba’s Singles’ Day shopping extravaganza, scooping up everything from consumer electronics to luxury items and even cars. The figure is two thirds of last year’s final tally of US$30.8 billion.
Alibaba’s Singles’ Day shopping festival, which falls on November 11 every year, is the world’s largest of its kind. The festival will be closely watched this year as a barometer for consumer sentiment 16 months into a US-China trade war and amid a slowdown in the Chinese economy. While the company’s e-commerce marketplaces Tmall and Taobao are traditionally the mainstays of the annual shopping extravaganza, this year’s festival will also include business-to-business e-commerce platforms like AliExpress as well as Lazada, Alibaba’s Southeast Asian e-commerce subsidiary, as the company taps international consumers.
Greta Thunberg, teen climate activist, is getting a huge mural in downtown San Francisco.
The Bay Area has many murals, with images of everyone from Robin Williams to Nipsey Hussle gracing its buildings.
Now, there’s a new name to add to that list: Greta Thunberg.
A mural of the Swedish teenage climate activist, whose movement has caught the attention of the world, is set to be completed next Tuesday.
Located in downtown San Francisco near Union Square (420 Mason St., for all you locals), the mural features Thunberg from the chest up — gazing straight into our souls, lips pursed.
It’s enough to make anyone stop and consider their environmental impact.
Source: CNN
30 years ago today the Berlin Wall came down marking the end of the European divide.
I remember in my youth how we visited East Berlin and drove through Easy Germany going to tournaments with my club.
This was a great moment in the history of mankind, that in many ways became the symbol for the end of the cold war.
Today is almost impossible for young people to understand what is what like in Europe before the wall came down.
I have a small piece of the wall in my home. I will keep to tell the story to my grandkids one day.
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