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China's 24 Hour Online Shopping Binge Tops $1.5 Billion In First 3 Minutes
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said sales topped 10 billion yuan ($1.51 billion) in just over three minutes from the opening of Singles' Day, an annual online discount sales gala that has become the world's biggest shopping spree.
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China Puts Brakes On Overseas Spending Spree
Beijing is tightening screening on Chinese companies' overseas investments, according to the government and reports, after a record-setting shopping spree raised concerns of capital flight and reckless spending.
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Shopping sprees, crash diet, dandiya class: A reveller's list
It's going to be a lavish Navratri this year for Roma Ashar, a 23-year-old technical writer who recently travelled to Gujarat to buy jewellery and traditional clothes for her dandiya outings in Mumbai."I went with two friends and between the three of us, we spent nearly Rs 20,000," says Ashar, a regular at some of the biggest dandiya events in the ...
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Shoppers go on a 'diet' tame the urge to buy
Imagine that horrible though all-too-familiar feeling: You are standing before a fully stuffed closet and yet have nothing to wear.Now, imagine something worse: Your closet contains only six items, and you are restricted to wearing only those six items for an entire month. Now, if you can bear it, imagine something unspeakable: No one notices. Near...
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China's 24 Hour Online Shopping Binge Tops $1.5 Billion In First 3 Minutes
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said sales topped 10 billion yuan ($1.51 billion) in just over three minutes from the opening of Singles' Day, an annual online discount sales gala that has become the world's biggest shopping spree.
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China Puts Brakes On Overseas Spending Spree
Beijing is tightening screening on Chinese companies' overseas investments, according to the government and reports, after a record-setting shopping spree raised concerns of capital flight and reckless spending.
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Shopping sprees, crash diet, dandiya class: A reveller's list
It's going to be a lavish Navratri this year for Roma Ashar, a 23-year-old technical writer who recently travelled to Gujarat to buy jewellery and traditional clothes for her dandiya outings in Mumbai."I went with two friends and between the three of us, we spent nearly Rs 20,000," says Ashar, a regular at some of the biggest dandiya events in the ...
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Shoppers go on a 'diet' tame the urge to buy
Imagine that horrible though all-too-familiar feeling: You are standing before a fully stuffed closet and yet have nothing to wear.Now, imagine something worse: Your closet contains only six items, and you are restricted to wearing only those six items for an entire month. Now, if you can bear it, imagine something unspeakable: No one notices. Near...
