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People gather on Great Wall to embrace New Year

BEIJING, Jan. 1, 2020 (Xinhua) -- People gather on Mutianyu section of the Great Wall to embrace the first sunrise of 2020.Aerial photo taken on Jan. 1, 2020 shows the

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Former NBA commissioner David Stern dead at 77: NBA

David Stern at a pre-press conference before the NBA match between the Houston Rockets and the Indiana Pacers at the Mall of Asia Arenain, Manila, Philippines, October 10, 2013. David Stern, w

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These ten enterprise M&A deals totaled over $40B in 2019

It would be hard to top the 2018 enterprise MA total of a whopping $87 billion, and predictably this year didn’t come close. In fact, the top 10 enterprise MA deals in 2019 were less than half l

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Jumia, DHL, and Alibaba will face off in African ecommerce 2.0

The business of selling consumer goods and services online is a relatively young endeavor across Africa, but ecommerce is set to boom.Over the last eight years, the sector has seen its first phase of

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Airbnb’s New Year’s Eve guest volume shows its falling growth rate

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.It’s finally 2020, the year that should bring us a direct listing from home-

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Xinhua Headlines-Xi Focus: Leading China in 2019

Photo taken on Nov. 9, 2019 shows the National Exhibition and Convention Center in east China's Shanghai, where the second China International Import Expo (CIIE) was he

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APD | World Trade Organization enhanced global value chains

By APD writer Carmelo M. AcuñaMANILA, Jan. 1 (APD) -- Director-General Roberto Azevêdo said the World Trade Organization (WTO) helped transform international economic r

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Mainland official calls for efforts to promote peaceful development of cross-Strait ties

Photo taken on July 21, 2019 from Xiangshan Mountain shows the Taipei 101 skyscraper in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan. (Xinhua/Zhu Xiang)As cross-Strait relations en

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The California Consumer Privacy Act officially takes effect today

California’s much-debated privacy law officially takes effect today, a year and a half after it was passed and signed — but it’ll be six more months before you see the hammer drop on any s

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America is sowing chaos in Iraq yet again

Editor's note: Tom Fowdy graduated from Oxford University's China Studies Program and majored in politics at Durham University. He writes about international relations focusing on China and the De

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APD | World Trade Organization enhanced global value chains

By APD writer Carmelo M. AcuñaMANILA, Jan. 1 (APD) -- Director-General Roberto Azevêdo said the World Trade Organization (WTO) helped transform international economic r

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China enforces new national medical insurance catalog

China's new national medical insurance catalog came into effect Wednesday, including 70 new drugs with their prices slashed by 60.7 percent on average. Eight domestica

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Xi's article on China's system, governance published

An article by President Xi Jinping on upholding and improving the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics and advancing the modernization of China's system an

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2019 wrap-up: A year of protests

03:47 For many parts of the world, 2019 was unsettling. We saw protests on almost every continent.In France, the government's planned pension reform has triggered new demonstrations in

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Xinhua Photos of the Day (Jan. 1)

Beijing, Jan. 1, 2020 (Xinhua) -- The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua.Fireworks are set off on New Year's Eve near the

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Getting past Reagan

Editor's note: Simon Johnson, a former chief economist of the IMF, is a professor at MIT Sloan, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and co-founder of a leading e

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Should I worry about… the anti-vaccination movement?

Since the first vaccines were discovered, there has been skepticism and resistance towards them.In 18th century England, for example, clergymen openly criticized vaccines for opposing what was, accor