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Reporter's Diary: Breathing life back into Wuhan bit by bit

02:17 It's been almost a week since a travel ban lifted on Wuhan where I've been for 80 days.As a journalist, I had relative freedom during the lockdown. For instance,

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Hubei people resume work after lockdown, life gradually back to normal

People stuck in Wuhan during the two-month lockdown take the first train back to Beijing on April 8, 2020. /VCG Tang Lao* resumed work in Beijing on Monday after ending her 14-day mandatory qu

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Rumor Buster: Is China treating foreign nationals equally in anti-pandemic measures?

A Pakistani student (L) studying in China talks with medical staff after his recovery at a Guangzhou 8th People's Hospital in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Provinc

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U.S. decoupling of internet connectivity with China will backfire

A utility pole carrying fiber optic internet cables pictured at sunset in Portland, Oregon, March 24, 2020. /AP Editor's note: Huang Yongfu is an economic affairs commentator. After his PhD, h

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Foreign Ministry speaks on anti-epidemic steps and Africans in China

FILE PHOTO: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, spokesperson, Mr. Zhao Lijian. Faced with COVID-19, an abrupt global public health crisis, al

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Iran's virus, sanctions-hit economy slowly reopens

Iran allowed small businesses outside its the capital Tehran to reopen Saturday, arguing the sanctions-hit economy in the country with the deadliest coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East cannot sta

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COVID-19: 99 new cases in the Chinese mainland, zero new death

A total of 99 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, 97 of them from abroad, zero new death and 63 asymptomatic cases were reported in the Chinese mainland on Saturday, accordin

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Apple and Google are launching a joint COVID-19 tracing tool for iOS and Android

Apple and Google’s engineering teams have banded together to create a decentralized contact tracing tool that will help individuals determine whether they have been exposed to someone with COVID-19.C

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Xinhua Headlines: Canadian writer shares anti-virus life in China via diaries

Canadian writer Jorah Kai Wood has lived in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality since 2014. He and his family had a special and unforgettable Spring Festival this

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AcreTrader raises $5M to help people invest in a fruitful asset class: farmland

Carter Malloy thinks that lucrative investments include dirt, some seeds, maintenance, and growth — literally. So, he founded Fayetteville, Arkansas-based AcreTrader, an online farmland investme

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FIA president calls for more radical changes from F1 over COVID-19

International automobile federation (FIA) President Jean Todt has insisted that Formula 1 is facing a new reality and has to take deeper cost cuts to survive the worsening COVID-19 crisis."I don't

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BOJ downgrades local regions' economies as Japan "seriously impacted" by virus outbreak

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) on Thursday downgraded its assessments of all of the country's regional economies for the first time in 11 years, as the coronavirus pandemic has severely impacted a broad ra

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Global Business Daily: UK overdrafts, 'unthinkable' to write off debt

"HM Treasury and the Bank of England have agreed to extend temporarily the use of the ... long-established Ways and Means facility."That's from a joint statement from the UK government and its centra

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Quibi is the anti-TikTok (that’s a bad thing)

It takes either audacious self-confidence or reckless hubris to build a completely asocial video app in 2020. You can decide which best describes Quibi, Hollywood’s $1.75 billion-funded attempt

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Wuhan's answers to prevent second coronavirus wave after lockdown ends

A family inside a shopping mall in Wuhan /Video screenshot After 11 weeks of lockdown, the city of Wuhan witnessed its first stream of cars marching on the outbound toll roads at midnight Wedn

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France’s competition watchdog orders Google to pay for news reuse

France’s competition authority has ordered Google to negotiate with publishers to pay for reuse of snippets of their content — such as can be displayed in its News aggregation service or s

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Stocks gain despite 6.6M new US unemployment claims

Domestic stocks rose today in the United States, with all major indices opening higher.TechCrunch has slowed its daily coverage of the US stock market as volatility has receded. We try to avoid cover