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Sri Lanka and debunking 'debt trap diplomacy'

October 28 marked the second round of Pompeo's anti-China trip around Asia. Determined to cement his foreign policy legacy in stone before the election shifts political

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Responding to Pompeo's anti-China message in India, Beijing calls it a lie

Just a week ahead of America's presidential election, senior U.S. officials stepped up their anti-China message – widely pushed by the Trump administration – during a v

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Section 230 barely rates a mention in Senate’s hasty pre-election flogging of tech CEOs

Today’s Senate hearing on immensely important legal protections for online platforms quickly proved to be little more than an excuse for Senators to accuse the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Goog

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Kandji hauls in $21M Series A as Apple device management flourishes during pandemic

Kandji, a mobile device management (MDM) startup, launched last October. That means it was trying to build the early stage company just as the pandemic hit earlier this year. But a company that helps

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Thanks to COVID-19, emissions and coal use may have peaked in 2019

If analysts from BloombergNEF are right, then all of the world’s most greenhouse gas polluting days are behind it, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.A sharp drop in energy demand caused by the glo

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Global Business Daily: Ant Group IPO, Digital RMB, Laptop imports

"Macron needs treatment on a mental level."That was the sentence from Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan which sparked consternation in France and further afield amid a row over the country's tou

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Japan PM Suga sets 2050 deadline for carbon neutrality

Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Monday set a 2050 deadline for the world's third-largest economy to become carbon neutral, significantly firming up the country

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Trump intensifies fracking assault on Biden in Pennsylvania

In a late gambit to win the battleground state of Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump and his GOP allies have intensified attacks on Joe Biden over fracking, hoping to

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Hubilo raises $4.5 million, led by Lightspeed, to focus on virtual events

Earlier this year, the founders of event analytics platform Hubilo pivoted to become a virtual events platform to survive the impact of COVID-19. Today, the startup announced it has raised a $4.5 mill

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U.S. bond traders' belief on stimulus package may risk stocks' outlook

VCG Editor's Note: Jimmy Zhu is a chief strategist at Singapore-based Fullerton Research. The article reflects the author's opinion and not necessarily the views of CGTN.U.S stock investors ha

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Japan announces to become carbon neutral by 2050

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks to the media during a press conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 21, 2020. /Reuters Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Monday committe

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New invention will help astronauts maintain bone density in space

The device could cut the time required to exercise while in space by 95%.

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In The Spotlight: Saad Hariri, the veteran politician returns

On Thursday, Lebanon's President Michel Aoun announced that he had appointed former Prime Minister Saad Hariri as prime minister-designate. The move brings the veteran politician back on stage at

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Render raises $4.5M for its DevOps platform

Render, the winner of our Disrupt SF 2019 Startup Battlefield, today announced that it has added another $4.5 million onto its existing seed funding round, bringing total investment into the company t

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Tesla shares rise after fifth quarterly profit in a row

The California-headquartered company has overcome disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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How would reneging on peace agreements resolve Afghanistan's quagmire?

Afghan security force members take part in a military operation in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, July 18, 2019. /Xinhua Editor's note:Hamzah Rifaat Hussain is a former visiting fellow at the

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Global Business: Huawei in Hungary, Singapore's long-haul take-off

"We shouldn't be shy, we should take part in this race as Western European countries did."That's Peter Szijjarto, Hungary's foreign minister, commenting on the opening of a third Huawei facility in t