China's Single's Day sales hit 1.4 bln USD in first 2 minutes

A giant screen displays sales on Alibaba's online marketplace Tmall for Singles' Day shopping spree in Shanghai, east China, Nov. 11, 2018. China's Singles' Day sales on TMall hit 10 billion yuan (about 1.44 billion U.S. dollars) at just two minutes and five seconds after midnight on Sunday. The e-commerce giant launched the annual online shopping promotion on Nov. 11, 2009. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)