1. In the first quarter, South Korean consumers accounted for 7% of the world’s total spending on mobile games, ranking fourth in the world, behind the United States, Japan and China. From a sub-platform point of view, the most expensive games for consumers to buy equipment, such as mobile games, are Google Play’s “Paradise M” and Apple App Store’s “Arena of Valor”.

2. Given the shortcomings of the environment and transparency, it will not be able to help El Salvador achieve its plan to use Bitcoin as legal tender. Earlier, El Salvador’s finance minister said the country had sought technical assistance from the World Bank to implement its decision to use Bitcoin as the official currency in parallel with the dollar.

3. German Federal Ministry of the Interior: from June 25, non-EU citizens who have been fully vaccinated will be able to travel, study or engage in other activities in Germany. Except for people starting from areas where the mutated virus is endemic, including Britain, Brazil and India. Foreign visitors planning to travel to Germany must complete two doses of COVID-19 vaccination at least 14 days before the arrival time, which must be approved by the European Drug Administration. At present, Russian SputnikV vaccines and Chinese-made vaccines are not included.

4.According to Japan’s NHK Television, Tokyo Governor Koike Yuriko announced that during the Tokyo Olympic Games, Tokyo will cancel all public watching activities, and some venues will be used for COVID-19 vaccination.

5.Because of the severe epidemic situation of COVID19 in India, many important ports in the world have refused entry to Indian seafarers. According to the statistics of the International Shipping Conference, there are about 1.6 million seafarers serving in various commercial fleets in the world. Of these, 234000 are seafarers from India, accounting for 14.6%of the world’s seafarers. Many important ports, including Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai, no longer allow Indian seafarers to enter the country.

7.The Wall Street Journal reported on the 18th that in early June, the US military began to withdraw a large number of antimissile systems, fighter wings, and “hundreds of soldiers” from the Middle East to coordinate with the adjustment of its global military deployment and free up resources to deal with the “great power threat” of China and Russia.

8.Yifu Institute in Germany: low-income families in Germany have been particularly seriously affected by the COVID-19 epidemic crisis, with about 1/3 of households’ monthly income declining. The financial situation of 41% of the households surveyed was affected. Due to lack of money, 7% of families even have to cut back on their diet. In addition, 47% of households changed their spending habits and reduced spending during the crisis.

9.National Weather Service: issued high temperature warnings for parts of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Colorado, warning that when temperatures soar well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius), heat waves are likely to pose a danger to residents. As extreme heat waves drive residents to use air conditioners on a large scale, power systems in some areas may face failures.

10.Depression is a common mental illness that affects 264 million people around the world, according to the latest data released on the official website of the World Health Organization. People who are used to staying up late can reduce their risk of depression by 23 percent if they can go to bed an hour earlier, according to a new study in the United States. Previous studies have shown that night owls are twice as likely to suffer from depression no matter how long they sleep.

11.Us President Joe Biden: the Delta variant novel coronavirus found for the first time in India is “particularly dangerous” to young Americans. The Delta variant, novel coronavirus, is a more easily transmitted and potentially lethal variant of the virus that will make unvaccinated people more vulnerable to infection than it was a month ago. At present, there are still many young people in the United States who have not yet been vaccinated. Vaccination should be accelerated to prevent infection with COVID-19.

 12.As of June 18, 6739 China-Europe trains have been opened in 2021, carrying 645000 TEUs, an increase of 44 per cent and 53 per cent respectively over the same period last year. In 2020, 12406 trains were opened for the whole year, an increase of 50 percent over the same period last year, breaking through the “10,000 trains” mark for the first time, with a comprehensive re-packing rate of 98.4 percent. Since the opening of the China-Europe train in March 2011, it has opened more than 40, 000 trains with a total value of more than US$200 billion, opening 73 routes to more than 160 cities in 22 European countries.

13.Japan’s Kyodo news agency: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiwei Suga said that with regard to the audience of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, if COVID-19 ‘s emergency declaration is issued, it will not hesitate to hold it empty. Yasuni Nishimura, the prime minister of the Japanese economy, said that if the expansion of the COVID-19 epidemic during the Tokyo Olympic Games led to the deterioration of the medical delivery system, he would not hesitate to issue an emergency declaration. At that time, it will be held in the form of an empty venue for consideration.

 14.Bill Nelson, director of NASA: in a few weeks, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will travel in his Blue Origin spaceship, but they will have to pass the same physical and psychological tests as professional astronauts. When tourists visit the space station, they hope that the safety of the astronauts on the space station will not be affected.

15.UNCTAD: according to the World Investment report 2021, global foreign direct investment is expected to bottom out and rebound in 2021, with a growth rate of 10% to 15%, but still about 25% lower than the level of foreign direct investment in 2019.