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Many foreign companies remain confident in the Chinese market

03:09 Foreign companies have flocked to China since the start of reform and opening-up in the late 1970s. And they have benefited from China's economic growth over the past four decade

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BoostVC closes $40M fund as revamped ‘sci-fi’ accelerator preps for digital demo day

BoostVC has been an accelerator known for its unconventional bets, it’s chased — and is still chasing — trends like blockchain and AR/VR that other investors have long sworn off. Its

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Middle East braces for bleak Ramadan as virus threat lingers

Ramadan is considered an auspicious period to travel to Mecca to perform the year-round umrah pilgrimage, which Saudi authorities suspended last month due to the COVID-19 pandemic. /AFP From c

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Denunciation in Damascus: Foul play by the Trump administration

Editor's note: Hamzah Rifaat Hussain is a former visiting fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington, and currently serves as assistant researcher at the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI)

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Asia-Pacific countries report rising COVID-19 cases, Bangladesh records biggest daily jump

Asia-Pacific countries kept reporting more COVID-19 cases on Monday as Bangladesh records biggest daily jump of COVID-19 cases with 492 new cases. BANGLADESH The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases

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Sri Lanka relaxes curfew in several districts to kick start economic activities

Sri Lankan authorities on Monday relaxed an ongoing curfew in several districts of the country while capital Colombo and three other districts which were declared as "

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Alibaba Cloud will invest $28 billion more into its infrastructure over the next three years

Alibaba Cloud announced today that it will invest another RMB 200 billion (or about $28 billion) into its infrastructure over the next three years, prompted in part by increased demand for services li

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Will the pandemic permanently change people's dining habits?

Chen Tingting in Shanghai has not dined out since the outbreak of COVID-19, while Grace Ou in Hong Kong ate out only once during these months. "I remember I ate out twi

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Coronavirus Watch: Turkey becomes hardest-hit country in Mideast; Iran warns of another peak in fall

A health worker checks a man's temperature at a market at Ulus Hali, in Ankara, capital of Turkey, on April 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Mustafa Kaya)--Turkey becomes hardest-hit country in Mideast with over 82,

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Local officials rush help to stray animals in Istanbul during lockdown

Bahar Cetinkaya, working for the Kadikoy Municipality, one of Istanbul's crowded districts on the Asian side, takes care of the stray cats, on 18 April 2020. (Xinhua)"We are now working with all our s

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Political deadlock compounds Iraq's COVID-19 fight

Editor's note: Hannan Hussainis a security analyst at the London School of Economics – South Asia Center, and an author. The article reflects the author's opinions, not necessarily the views ofCGT

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APD | Weekly top 10 hot news ( April 11 - April 17 )

Every weekend, Asia Pacific Daily will provide you with a run-down of the latest hot news.This week, the following hot news you should know:Top 1 | EU blasts Trump’s WH

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China to continue opening up despite COVID-19

Editor's note: Wang Huiyao is the president of the Center for China and Globalization. The article reflects the author's opinions and not necessarily the views of CGTN.The COVID-19 pandemic has oc

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Feature: Chinese experts in Kazakhstan give advice on protecting health workers

The 10-member Chinese medical team has continued their visit in Kazakhstan, giving suggestions to their Kazakh colleagues on how to lower infections among health worker

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China unveils how the future of work looks like

Editor's note: Matteo Giovannini is a finance professional at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Beijing and a member of the China Task Force at the Italian Ministry of Economic Develo

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Chinese experts share COVID-19 treatment experience with Nepal via video conference

A hospital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region shared COVID-19 treatment experience with Nepalese medical experts via a video conference on Monday. Medic

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UN General Assembly decides to postpone or cancel pre-scheduled meetings due to COVID-19

The United Nations General Assembly on Monday adopted decisions to either postpone or cancel pre-scheduled meetings due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. "In acc