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With Alibaba having broken Singles Day shopping records in China, netting sales worth 14.2 billion USA dollars, or a 60 percent rise, in 2014, the company has set its sights on replicating this success overseas.

The price index for nonfuel imports has not recorded a monthly advance since the index ticked up 0.1 percent in July 2014.

Lake Tahoe’s rock star resorts, Heavenly Mountain Resort and Northstar California, will kickoff the ski season six days earlier than initially planned, with both ski resorts opening Saturday.

Daylight Saving Time, or Daylight Savings Time, as a few call it, ended at 2 a.m. Sunday, November 1, 2015. Most people usually set clocks back before heading to bed Saturday night. After all, you get more daylight and you save more money on lighting bills.

Shares of the operator of Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s stores fell more than 9 percent in premarket trading on Wednesday.

While a win of that magnitude virtually assures the National League for Democracy (NLD) of electing the president as well, Suu Kyi is barred from becoming president by a constitutional hurdle inserted by the junta when it transferred power in 2011 to a quasi-civilian government.

Prices have collapsed by more than half since mid-2014 and now languish under US$50, hurt by a stubborn global supply glut and Opec’s decision to maintain output to counter booming USA shale production.

Angie’s List (NASDAQ:ANGI) was upgraded by analysts at Raymond James from an “underperform” rating to a “market perform” rating in a research note issued to investors on Wednesday, The Fly reports.

Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s biggest brewer, launched its US$100 billion-plus (HK$780 billion) offer for nearest rival SABMiller yesterday and agreed to sell the latter’s stake in United States venture MillerCoors in a bid to win regulatory approval.

Manufacturing sector growth slowed to nearly a two-year low in October despite the month being a festival season, showed the widely-tracked Nikkei Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI).

YANGON, Myanmar Fresh from her party’s apparent landslide victory in nationwide elections, Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar’s democracy movement, has asked the commander of the country’s powerful military for a meeting on the basis of “national...

Internet giant Alibaba broke its own sales record of $9.3bn during China’s “Singles Day” 24-hour online shopping binge on Wednesday, defying fears of an economic slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy.

Brazil’s government has said it may fine the mining giants for the environmental catastrophe.

While the consumption frenzy around Singles’ Day draws comparison to Black Friday, the feeling that it is more festival than online shopping comes from the event’s roots.

Ohio State (9-0, 5-0 Big Ten) has won 22 straight overall and 29 consecutive regular-season Big Ten games – the latter accomplishment ties the conference record set by the Florida State teams in the ACC from 1992-95.