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Frugal shoppers look to China’s ‘Singles’ Day’ for online discounts

Cs news4 weeks ago08 mins

HONG KONG (AP) — Alice Zhang, a 29-year-old marketer in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, has spent only roughly half what she did last year during the “Singles’ Day” online shopping festival, switching to cheaper choices and giving up on buying new shoes after pay was cut by more than 20%. That’s typical, analysts…

At US bases overseas, workers go without pay because of shutdown

Cs news4 weeks ago4 weeks ago08 mins

MADRID (AP) — The longest U.S. government shutdown on record is doing more than grind activities to a halt at home; an ocean away in Europe, local workers at U.S. military bases have started to feel the pain. Thousands of people working at overseas bases in Europe have had their salaries interrupted since the shutdown…