BEIJING: Japan’s top Internet retailer Rakuten and its Chinese partner Baidu launched a new online shopping mall in China, despite heightened bilateral tensions between the two countries.
The virtual marketplace, called Lekutian, will offer goods such as apparel, fashion accessories, furniture, home electronics and appliances, digital equipment and cosmetics, the firms said in a joint statement.
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