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American soldiers stationed in Japan were sentenced to five years' imprisonment for abducting and sexually assaulting a woman under the age of 16. On December 13th, it was learned that the Naha District Court sentenced the soldier to five years' imprisonment for the abduction and sexual assault of a woman under the age of 16 by an American air force soldier in Okinawa last December. (CCTV News)Institution: In the third quarter, the price and shipment of the large-capacity enterprise-level solid-state disk industry rose simultaneously. According to the latest survey of TrendForce Jibang Consulting, the strong demand for AI applications continued to drive the growth of the Enterprise SSD industry in the third quarter of 2024. As the supplier's shipment could not meet the market demand, the price rose, pushing up the overall revenue of the industry by nearly 30%. Due to the arrival of NVIDIA (NVIDIA) H series products, and the peak demand for Training AI Server, especially the strong demand for large-capacity products, the overall purchase order capacity increased by 15% quarter.Amazon said it would broadcast Trump's inauguration live on Prime Video. A spokesman for the US e-commerce giant Amazon said on Thursday that the company would donate $1 million to the inauguration fund of US President-elect Donald Trump and will broadcast Trump's inauguration live on its Prime Video service. The spokesman said that the live broadcast of Prime Video represented another donation worth $1 million in kind.

Thailand's finance minister said that Thailand is expected to levy the lowest corporate tax in the world from January 2025.According to sources, Keppel and Sovico Group are discussing submarine cables between Singapore and Vietnam.The cryptocurrency market fluctuated violently again, exceeding 110,000 people. In the past 24 hours, the cryptocurrency headed by Bitcoin jumped up and down. After Trump said "something great will be done in the cryptocurrency field", the price of Bitcoin once rose to about $102,500, and then profit-making funds poured out. Bitcoin plunged over $3,000, and the lowest dropped to around $99,200. Other smaller cryptocurrency varieties followed suit. Coinglass data shows that within 24 hours, the number of people in the cryptocurrency market has exceeded 110,000. At present, there are great differences in the market on cryptocurrency. Some optimists predict that Bitcoin may reach $150,000 in mid-2025. At the NEXT meeting in Reuters this week, American bankers expressed their caution about cryptocurrencies. BlackRock, a world-renowned asset management company, suggested in a report on Thursday that interested investors could consider allocating 2% of their portfolio to Bitcoin. However, the report also warned: "Investors should also be alert to the risks of Bitcoin, which may not be widely adopted in the end, and it is still very unstable and vulnerable to sharp selling." In addition, Turkish regulators said they would block access to dozens of cryptocurrency exchanges. (Broker China)

South Korea's KOSPI index erased all the declines since the martial law storm.CICC: Gradually filling the gap between inflation and demand will be the direction of economic work next year. The Central Economic Work Conference will be held in Beijing from December 11th to 12th. The research department of CICC believes that for the economic goal of next year, after "maintaining stable economic growth", the meeting proposed to "maintain overall stability in employment and prices" and put forward "focusing on goal guidance and striving to achieve an optimal combination of stable growth, stable employment and reasonable price recovery". This is the first time in the past 15 years that "stabilizing prices" has been taken as the goal of annual economic work during the period of low prices. The research department of CICC believes that gradually bridging the inflation gap and demand gap will be the direction of economic work next year.Port hedland's iron ore exports increased to 48.755 million tons in November.