Pages documents can be downloaded as Pages files, PDFs, or in Word format, and Numbers spreadsheets can be exported to the desktop version of Numbers, PDF, and Excel.

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If those returning were stopped by police, they had been given phone numbers of officials who could give the word to let them pass.

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You put large numbers together to handle complex tasks like running Microsoft Word.

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Numbers play an important role in China, with eight - which sounds like the word "prosperity" - being considered particularly auspicious, the BBC's Viv Marsh says.

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