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May 13 - A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the southern coast of Hokkaido, Japan, at approximately 11:24 a.m. local time on May 13. The maximum intensity was 1, and the epicenter was at a depth of 10 kilometers. There was no risk of a tsunami.According to Nikkei, an executive at U.S. chip giant Texas Instruments (TXN.O) said the company is expanding its global manufacturing scale, including in Japan and Malaysia, to increase in-house production of its “foundational” semiconductors, thereby supporting the booming artificial intelligence infrastructure market.Faraday Future’s Data Factory business unit signed its first sales order.Pop Mart (09992.HK) opened higher but closed lower, currently down more than 3%. The companys management stated that, based on current procurement and production conditions, raw material costs are expected to increase by 3 to 5 percentage points compared to the same period last year, and the companys overall gross profit margin is expected to decrease by about 0.5 percentage points.On May 13, the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office held a regular press conference. A reporter asked: Recently, the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism issued an announcement stating that Shanghai residents can book group and individual tours to Kinmen and Matsu through qualified travel agencies in Shanghai and Fujian provinces. What is the current progress of this? Spokesperson Zhang Han stated that tourism industry representatives from both sides of the Taiwan Strait have recently begun mutual visits and inspections, paving the way for future cross-strait tourism exchanges and cooperation. We have already announced the promotion of the pilot program to resume individual travel to Taiwan for residents of Shanghai and Fujian provinces. We hope that relevant authorities in Taiwan will heed public opinion and open this up as soon as possible, creating conditions for the normalization of cross-strait personnel exchanges and the normalization of exchanges and cooperation in various fields.
