Thailand's finance minister said that Thailand is expected to levy the lowest corporate tax in the world from January 2025.The 2024 Liaoning International Ice and Snow Economic Cooperation Promotion Conference was held. On December 12th, the 2024 Liaoning International Ice and Snow Economic Cooperation Promotion Conference was held in Shenyang. More than 150 government and enterprise guests from more than 20 countries including South Korea, Germany and France and Hong Kong and Macao attended the conference, and conducted in-depth exchanges on topics such as ice and snow tourism, ice and snow sports and ice and snow equipment manufacturing. This promotion meeting is an important sub-activity of "Liaoning International Ice and Snow Economic Cooperation and Negotiation Activities". It is understood that the "Liaoning International Ice and Snow Economic Cooperation Negotiation Activity" will last for three days, during which activities such as Liaoning Ice and Snow Economic Theme Exhibition, Liaoning-Europe and America Ice and Snow Economic Cooperation Exchange Conference and Liaoning Ice and Snow Economic Industry Tour will be held, aiming at deepening the exchanges and cooperation between Liaoning Province and the world in the field of ice and snow economy, jointly exploring new opportunities for the development of global ice and snow industry and building a brand of winter economic and trade cooperation in Liaoning Province. (Liaoning Daily)Russia asked Ukraine to open a humanitarian passage in the Ukrainian-occupied area of Kursk. According to the Tass news agency, Russian Commissioner for Human Rights mosca Likova said in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, on the 12th that Russia had asked Ukraine to open a humanitarian passage for the civilians in the Ukrainian-occupied area of Kursk to evacuate to a safe area. Mosca Likova said that there are about 1,500 to 2,000 civilians in Uzhan District of Kursk State, who usually take refuge in destroyed houses or basements of houses.
German authorities predict that the German economy will stagnate in 2025. On the 12th, local time, Kiel Institute for World Economics, one of the authoritative German economic research institutes, released a winter forecast, predicting that the German GDP will stagnate in 2025, neither increasing nor decreasing, which is 0.5% lower than the previous autumn forecast. Germany's GDP will shrink by 0.2% in 2024, compared with the previous autumn forecast of 0.1%. The agency believes that Germany's potential signs of weak economic growth are emerging, not only facing the foreseeable impact of the US tariff increase, but also the domestic industrial crisis is intensifying. (CCTV Finance)South Korea's stock market is bound to erase all the declines since the martial law storm, and South Korea's benchmark stock index will continue to rebound on Friday, which is bound to recover all the lost ground since the martial law storm. South Korea's Kospi index once rose by 0.7%, heading for four consecutive gains, erasing all the declines since December 3 in intraday trading. Late that night, South Korean President Yin Xiyue announced martial law and then hastily lifted it, shocking the world. Investors believe that South Korea's stock market has fallen too far recently, and expect that if Congress passes the second impeachment motion against Yin Xiyue over the weekend, the risk of political turmoil will be alleviated. Although Yin Xiyue refused to step down and vowed to fight to the end, there are more and more signs that some ruling party members may support the impeachment motion.IDC: The recovery of China's financial cloud market in the first half of 2024 was less than expected. According to the latest report "Tracking China's financial cloud market in the first half of 2024" released by IDC, the scale of China's financial cloud market in the first half of 2024 reached US$ 4.40 billion, up 7.3% year-on-year, and it was RMB 31.67 billion, up 11.5% year-on-year, achieving double-digit growth, but the growth rate was high. In the financial cloud sub-market, the cloud infrastructure market has picked up from the previous month, but the situation of financial institutions reducing costs and increasing efficiency has continued, and the overall development speed of the cloud solution market has further slowed down. From the overall situation of the financial cloud market in 2024, the financial cloud market in China is in a period of adjustment, and the development trend of each sub-market continues to differentiate.
Li Zaiming, leader of the largest opposition party in South Korea, issued a statement urging members of the ruling party to support the impeachment of Yin Xiyue. Li Zaiming, leader of the Common Democratic Party, the largest opposition party in South Korea, issued a statement in the National Assembly on the 13th, calling on members of the ruling party, members of the National Force, to vote on the impeachment case of President Yin Xiyue on the 14th and support the passage of the case.The semiconductor sector bottomed out, and Purran shares rose by more than 17%. The semiconductor sector bottomed out, and Puran shares rose by more than 17%. Zhongke Lanxun, Zhaoyi Innovation, Hengxuan Technology, Shanghai Beiling and Jinghe Jicheng followed suit.The space robot won the TGA annual game "Black Myth Wukong", the TGA award ceremony is in progress, and "Astro Bot" won the TGA annual game. Other nominated games include Black Myth: Wukong, Clown Card, Eldon Circle: The Shadow of Huang Jinshu, Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth, Metaphorical Fantasy: Refantazio. Cosmic Robot is a game work developed by Team ASOBI and released by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Players and ASTRO have launched a brand-new super-large adventure trip to explore more than 50 exciting and varied worlds. The release of the game coincides with the 30th anniversary of PlayStation game console, and a lot of tribute elements have been added to the game works, which has also become one of the reasons why the game attracts worldwide attention. (Sina Technology)