The country’s annual shopping extravaganza dwarfs the US’ Black Friday and Cyber Monday put together The Singles’ Day shopping festival in China has beaten expectations this year, with sales surpassing 1.1 trillion yuan ($154 billion) for the first time ever, according to the consulting company Syntun.

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The liberal financier will shift his attention to “other parts of the world,” according to an internal email George Soros’ Open Society Foundations NGO will shut down much of its EU-based operations and fund liberal causes elsewhere, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing an internal email. While it remains unclear where Soros will direct his efforts,…