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Algeria decides to reopen more businesses to ease anti-coronavirus lockdown impact

The Algerian government on Saturday decided to re-open more businesses, in a move to ease the adverse effect of the nationwide lockdown imposed to stem the spread of COVID-19, official APS news agen

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Japan's COVID-19 infections top 9,000 as Abe declares nationwide state of emergency

Coronavirus cases in Japan increased by 570 new daily infections, health ministry and local authorities said as of Thursday evening, bringing the national total to 9,292. As the number and pace

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China's farm produce prices retreat for 7th straight week

Prices of farm produce in China continued to decline last week, edging down for seven weeks in a row, data from the Ministry of Commerce showed Wednesday. From April 6

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Initially scoffing at the idea, Americans are finally wearing face masks

Americans have long believed that wearing a mask was unnecessary unless you were actually sick. Yet over the last two weeks, donning a mask has become a common sight for those dashing into a gro

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Money transfer service Azimo partners with Siam Commercial Bank for faster payments to Thailand

Azimo, the London-headquartered international money transfer service, has partnered with Thailand’s Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) to deliver instant payments for its customers from Europe to SCB ba

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China cuts 402.7 billion yuan in taxes and fees from Jan-Feb

VCG In the first two months of 2020, a total of 402.7 billion yuan (56.8 billion U.S. dollars) in taxes and fees were cut across China in an effort to support business operations, according to

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HK hotels, restaurants hit hardest amid unrest-plagued economy in 2019: official data

Hong Kong's hotels and restaurants suffered the most last year as the economy reeled from months of violent protests and even riots, official data showed. Net output i

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DataGuard, which provides GDPR and privacy compliance-as-a-service, raises $20M

Watchdogs have started to raise the issue that new working practices and online activity necessitated by the spread of the coronavirus pandemic are creating new sets of privacy, security and data prot

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COVID-19's impact on China's consumption "controllable": MOC

The impact of the novel coronavirus outbreak on China's consumption is short-lived and controllable, as the resumption of business has accelerated, the Ministry of Com

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Hong Kong's unrest-hit service sectors report income drops in Q4

Most of Hong Kong's service industries reported year-on-year drops in business receipts in the fourth quarter of 2019 as violent incidents disrupted economic activities, with that of tourism and conv

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How did the coronavirus start? Scientists on conspiracy theories

Analysis of the entirety of the genome of the virus has found two key features which rule out any laboratory manipulation.

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U.S. Costco acquires Innovel to boost e-commerce sales

A U.S. hypermarket chain Costco Wholesale Corp store in Shanghai, China August 28, 2019. /Reuters U.S. wholesale giant Costco announced on Tuesday it has completed the acquisition of Innovel S

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France Slaps Record €1.1 Billion Fine on Apple For Anti-Competitive Practices

France's competition authority has ruled that the tech giant abused its economic dominance over independent retailers in France and that its actions barred them from co

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Will ‘New Retail’ help D2C brands succeed offline?

In my day job as founder of PipeCandy, where we discover and track online retailers and D2C brands, I speak to founders and the support ecosystems they depend on for growth. The large fashion retailer

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Shanghai commerce businesses resuming operation as epidemic eases

Customers line up to receive body temperature check before entering a shopping mall on the Nanjing Road in east China's Shanghai, Feb. 23, 2020. (Xinhua/Chen Fei)Curren

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Palestinian Lawsuit Targets Trump, Netanyahu, Kushner for ‘Crimes Against Humanity’

A new lawsuit filed by a group of Americans and Palestinians in a US federal court charges a slew of political and legal figures, mostly Americans and Israelis, "have a

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Daily necessity supplies stable in Hubei, rest of China: official

Supply of daily necessities has been stable in China, including the epidemic-hit Hubei Province, despite the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak that heavily impacted d