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05-Oct-18 Consumption of leisure services by China's middle class has grown rapidly. More than a third visit beauty salons for massage, facials and skin treatments. Younger consumers not only seek to improve their looks, but compete with others over appearance. [image: HKTDC Research]
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03-Oct-18 Construction of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative-backed Jakarta-Bandung rail line is back on track, with contractors confident it will enter operation in 2021. Its most significant benefit is to cut transit time from five hours to 36 minutes. [image: HKTDC]
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01-Oct-18 Candy, the Italian family-owned appliance manufacturer is in the news after being sold to Chinese electronics giant Haier, based in the Shandong port city of Qingdao, for EUR475 mn, as Haier looks to crack the European market. [image: Candy]
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27-Sep-18 Chinese healthcare solutions player WeDoctor has sealed a strategic partnership with Fullerton Healthcare to provide WeDoctor’s 160 mn Chinese registered users with access to Fullerton's network of 500 healthcare facilities and 8,000 network healthcare providers across Asia. [image: China Money Network]
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25-Sep-18 Tencent Holdings plans to partner with China UnionPay to offer shoppers in Hong Kong the ability to use a Hong Kong version of the WeChat Pay mobile payment app to spend at mainland merchants using Hong Kong Dollars. [image: Reuters]
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