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In this episode, Katey speaks with Hong Kong correspondent Cissy Zhou about how Chinese e-commerce platforms have spent big money to tap overseas markets for this year's Singles Day shopping festival as online sales growth in China hits a bottleneck. But has the revamped event bore fruit?

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