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Even as cloud infrastructure growth slows, revenue rises over $30B for quarter

The cloud market is coming into its own during the pandemic as the novel coronavirus forced many companies to accelerate plans to move to the cloud, even while the market was beginning to mature on it

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Hong Kong police order arrest of Law Kwun-chung and 5 others

The police in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) have ordered the official arrest of six people on suspicion of violating the Law of the People's Repub

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Greater Bay Area hosts 17% of China's Fortune 500 companies

Eighty-three companies from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) entered the Fortune China 500 list this year, eight for the first time.GBA encompasses the special administrative regi

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U.S. economy contracts 32.9 pct in Q2 amid mounting COVID-19 fallout

The U.S. economy contracted at an annual rate of 32.9 percent in the second quarter amid mounting COVID-19 fallout, the U.S. Commerce Department reported Thursday. The

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PLA to participate in International Army Games 2020

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) will send contestants to the International Army Games 2020 to be held in Russia from Aug. 23 to Sept. 5, a military spokesperson said Thursday. The Chi

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Urgent: At least 11 injured in Japan's Fukushima explosion, gas leak suspected

At least 11 people were injured in an explosion on Thursday morning in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture, local firefighters said. According to the firefighters, the explos

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Mexico's President plans to raffle off presidential jet

02:49 Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says his government is protecting the Mexican people from the coronavirus and at the same time fighting corruption.He still plans to

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Xi to attend ceremony marking completion of BeiDou-3 Navigation Satellite System

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, will attend a c

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Goldman Sachs: U.S. dollar's grip on global markets might be over

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. warned Tuesday that the U.S. dollar is on edge of losing its position of world's reserve currency as inflation concern in the U.S. is growing. /Reuters Goldman Sachs G

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Russia to lift orbit of int'l space station

Russia plans to lift the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday to create "ballistic conditions" for the arrival of a manned spacecraft in October

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Britain announces plans to tackle "obesity time bomb"

Britain on Monday announced plans to tackle the "obesity time bomb," with a ban on adverts for junk food at specific times, the cancellation of "buy one get one free" deals on such foods and a dec

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CIIE exhibitors set up special committee on public health, epidemic control

The exhibitors' association of the China International Import Expo (CIIE) announced Sunday to set up some special committees, including one for public health and epidem

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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover set to launch next week

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is set to launch next Thursday, July 30, on a journey designed to search for astrobiological evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars, according to NASA. The launch o

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Seven injured as car ploughs into people outside Berlin train station

The incident occurred early on Sunday morning in Germany's capital, Berlin. /Reuters At least seven people have been injured after a car ploughed into a crowd outside of a train station in Ber

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seven injured after car plows into sidewalk in Berlin

At least seven people were injured, including three seriously, on Sunday after a man drove into a group of people in Germany's capital here. The driver plowed the black SUV into the Hardenbergplatz i

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Tech coalition founded to protect children from online sex abuse

02:29 The Internet Watch Foundation said that in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, reports of child abuse images online jumped by almost 50 percent. The group which advocates

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Military helicopter with 5 people crashes in northern Philippines

A military helicopter carrying five people crashed on Thursday evening while taking off in a military camp in the northern Philippines, the Philippine Air Force (PAF)