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China's August manufacturing PMI sees minor slip

China's manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) decreased to 51 in August from 51.1 in July, official data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Monda

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Japan's Q2 GDP shrinks annualized 27.8 pct, worst in decades

Japan's economy in the April-June quarter shrank an annualized real 27.8 percent from the previous quarter due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is the worst contraction

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Urgent: Preliminary results show Lukashenko wins Belarusian presidential elections

Preliminary results on Monday showed that incumbent Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko won the presidential elections, the country's central election commission said. Lukashenko won a sixth te

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China's exports rise by 10.4 pct in July

China saw its foreign trade rise 6.5 percent year on year in July, with exports and imports up 10.4 percent and 1.6 percent respectively, official data showed Friday.

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Hong Kong economy declines 9 pct in Q2

Hong Kong's gross domestic product (GDP) contracted 9 percent year on year in the second quarter of this year due to the double blows from social unrest and the COVID-

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Marshon Brooks of Guangdong Southern Tigers tests positive for COVID-19

The Guangdong Southern Tigers announced on Monday night that the CBA club's international player Marshon Brooks was confirmed as an asymptomatic COVID-19 case right after entering the country. Accord

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Marshon Brooks of Guangdong Southern Tigers tests positive for COVID-19

The Guangdong Southern Tigers announced on Monday night that the CBA club's international player Marshon Brooks was confirmed as an asymptomatic COVID-19 case right after entering the country. Accord

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China sees drop in criminal cases in H1

The first half of 2020 saw a decline in the number of criminal cases across China amid the COVID-19 epidemic, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said Monday. Pro

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Nine people missing due to flooding in southwestern Japan

Nine people were missing and 15 others showed no vital signs due to massive flooding triggered by torrential rain in the southwestern Japanese prefectures of Kumamoto and Kagoshima, local media repor

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Venezuela imposes strict quarantine in states and capital

03:14 Venezuela on Monday imposed what its government described as a radical quarantine in several border states and the capital Caracas, as numbers of the coronavirus cases showed a s

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3 killed in gas blast in NE China's Liaoning

Three people were killed and four others injured after a gas explosion in a residential building in Dandong City, northeast China's Liaoning Province early Friday. The blast happened at around 5 a.m.

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COVID-19 deaths exceed 5,000 in Sweden

COVID-19 deaths have exceeded 5,000 in Sweden, according to statistics from the Swedish Public Health Agency on Wednesday. With 102 new deaths reported in the past 24 hours, a total of 5,041 people h

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China sees boom in live-streaming industry

China has seen fast growth in its live-streaming industry over the past years, data showed. In 2019, annual registrations of Chinese live-streaming companies reached 5,684, an over 17-fold increas

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China sees boom in live-streaming industry

China has seen fast growth in its live-streaming industry over the past years, data showed. In 2019, annual registrations of Chinese live-streaming companies reached 5,684, an over 17-fold increas

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China's industrial output up 4.4 pct in May amid further recovery

China's value-added industrial output, an important economic indicator, went up 4.4 percent year on year in May as factory activities continued to pick up pace amid CO

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UK economy shrinks by record 20.4% in April

Britain's economy shrank by a record 20.4 percent in April from March amid the coronavirus lockdown, official data showed on Friday.This monthly decline in GDP is three times greater than the fall ex

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China sees severe violent crime prosecution drop over 2 decades: report

The number of people prosecuted for severe violent crimes in China has dropped by an average annual rate of 4.8 percent over the past two decades, a work report of the