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How does China swiftly, strongly respond to COVID-19 epidemic?

VCG It is a historic day for China when Wuhan cleared all its hospitalized COVID-19 cases on April 26. This is a hard-won achievement, for which China has made tremendous sacrifice and efforts

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Trump pushes to reopen economy, predicts economic rebound in Q3

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday offered a positive prediction of economic rebound in Q3 saying the country is ready to re-open, as the number of confirmed cases in the country surpassed one mi

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Spotlight: U.S. Fed officials to discuss relief loan programs amid COVID-19 fallout

U.S. Federal Reserve officials are expected to discuss the central bank's lending programs for businesses and local governments at its policy meeting on Tuesday and We

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Mutual understanding needed for joint fight against COVID-19

03:55 Editor's note: Recently, the Guangzhou government issued a multilingual open letter plainly stating its zero-tolerance stance toward discriminatory behavior after allegations tha

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No country can be great in isolation, Chinese UN ambassador says in op-ed

A screen capture image shows Zhang Jun, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, attending a virtual handover ceremony via Zoom, in New York, the United States, April 21, 2020. (Xinhu

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Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and industry to fall by at least 4 pct in 2020: study

The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic would cause global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and industry to fall by 4 to 11 percent in 2020, according to a new study by Germany-based Climat

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Oil prices fall on brimming storage, bleak recovery prospects

Oil prices plunged for a second day in a row on Tuesday on concerns about dwindling global capacity to store more crude and fears that demand may be slow to recover eve

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BP announces $4.4 bln quarterly loss as oil prices crash

A BP logo is pictured outside its gasoline stand on April 26, 2020 in Katwijk, Netherlands. /VCG British energy giant BP on Tuesday said it slumped into a 4.4-billion-U.S. dollar net loss in t

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Okta hires ex-Symantec executive as new chief security officer

Identity giant Okta has hired its newest chief security officer, David Bradbury.Bradbury, a security veteran with more than two-decades of security experience who most recently served as chief securi

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Chinese and Cambodian Armed Forces Joined Hands in Fighting COVID-19

By Senior Colonel Li Jingfeng, the Defense Attaché of the Chinese Embassy in Cambodia On April 25, 2020, the Chinese Air Force transport plane, loaded with anti-pandemi

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Oil plunges 25%, will it hit negative $100 per barrel next month?

U.S. oil futures plunged by nearly 25 percent on Monday on fears the global storage for crude will soon get full as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to cut demand. An analyst said the price may hit ne

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Tracing COVID-19 "patient zero" is a challenging task: Chinese experts

China is making efforts to trace COVID-19 "patient zero," which remains a challenging scientific issue, Chinese experts said Monday. It's challenging to trace COVID-19

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Why politicize the China-Canada medical equipment investigation?

Medical masks. /VCG Editor's note: Hannan Hussain is a security analyst at the London School of Economics - South Asia Centre, and an author. The article reflects the author's opinions, not ne

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Wuhan has support of 1.4 bln Chinese people in COVID-19 battle: official

A health official said central Chinese province Hubei and its capital Wuhan, the hardest-hit Chinese city by COVID-19, have the support of 1.4 billion Chinese people.

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Josh Constine leaves TechCrunch for VC fund SignalFire

How do you leave the place that made you? You figure out what it made you for. TechCrunch made me a part of the startup ecosystem I love. Now it’s time to put that love into action to help a new

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To fight fraud, Amazon now screens third-party sellers through video calls

Amazon is piloting a new system aimed at validating the identify of third-party sellers over video conferencing, the company announced on Sunday. The technology is a part of a series of seller verific

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The startup cash countdown begins

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.As global startup markets enter a slowdown — more on that shortly — we