Few get excited as Narongchai Akrasanee about new e-mails coming in. As his smartphone buzzes across the coffee table, he politely asks: "Can I reply to a message quickly?"
Sam Kutesa has had plenty to do with China since becoming Uganda's minister of foreign affairs nine years ago, but even before then the lawyer-turned-politician had an intimate knowledge of the country, having visited it many times.
Malaysian billionaire Halim Saad once said: "Halal is the biggest and the oldest brand in the world."
Estimated at around 1 to 2 percent of the population, Muslims are very much in the minority in China and concentrated in regions including Ningxia Hui autonomous region, Gansu province, Qinghai province and Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Yet this small percentage still translates into a population of more than 20 million people, representing a sizable market for local and foreign enterprises in halal food and other products.
Before 2000, the MICE - short for meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions, was a word few Chinese people had heard. However, at that time, the sector created a 3.5 million tourist flow a year in the world.
To end a monopoly investigation against it in China, US wireless technology giant InterDigital Communications has pledged to license use of its patents in "fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms", local media reports.
To many Chinese consumers, especially those who wear spectacles, the city of Danyang in Jiangsu province is known as "the city of glasses".
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