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Chinese companies embrace digitalization at IT exhibition

Chinese companies are making tremendous headway in embracing the era of digitalization, as shown by the strength and dynamism of the 500 Chinese companies at an ongoing IT exhibition here, experts say.

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Int'l Festival for Business 2016 to focus on three sectors

​Britain's business leaders marked the 100-day countdown to the International Festival for Business 2016 (IFB2016) at an exclusive showcase hosted by HSBC on Friday.

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Silicon Valley firms rally behind Apple in FBI encryption battle

Colleagues and rivals including Airbnb, eBay, Reddit and Twitter file brief saying that FBI is executing strategy against Apple ‘unbound by any legal limits’

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Apple is rolling up supporters in privacy fight against F.B.I.

Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and a parade of other technology companies filed a barrage of court briefs on Thursday, aiming to puncture the United States government’s legal arguments against Apple in a case that will test the limits of the authorities’ access to personal data.

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Fujitsu, NEC implicated in latest Japanese corporate bid-rigging scandal

​Japan's Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) conducted a series of raids on offices Tuesday, including on those of some international Japanese bluechips, on suspicion the companies may have been involved in rigging bids for a major utility company's contracts.

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Vaccine for Zika virus may be years away, disease experts warn

As public health officials warn that the Zika virus is swiftly spreading across the Americas, the search is on to develop a vaccine to halt the disease, which could infect as many as four million people by the end of the year and has been linked to severe birth defects.

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S. Korea to make underperforming workers fired more easily

South Korea plans to make workers, who underperform markedly compared with fellow workers, fired more easily, while allowing companies to change their regulations on employment with less support from workers.

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Japanese firms raided over post-quake bid-rigging

Public prosecutors and the Fair Trade Commission started searching the head offices of more than 10 road paving companies and related locations on Wednesday in connection with their alleged bid-rigging on projects to repair expressways damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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Afghan Taliban flex muscles with new telecom 'tax'

The Taliban have demanded a hefty new "protection tax" from Afghan mobile phone companies, industry and militant sources told AFP, as the resurgent group tightens its stranglehold on a rare successful business in a slumping war economy.

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China's tertiary industries lead in tax stakes

The gap between the tertiary and the secondary industry has widened further in the past 12 months, with the former accelerating its development pace.

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China to cut overcapacity, help companies out

China will provide full support for the coal and steel sectors, which suffer serious overcapacity, to help them out of their current difficulties, according to an official statement issued Thursday.

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China's companies look abroad as film prospers

This year has been historic for China's film industry.As of Dec. 3, China's total box office sales for 2015 reached a record high of 40.05 billion yuan (6.18 billion U.S. dollars).

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Drop hypocritical criticism of China's anti-terror law

It's hypocritical to criticise China's requirements for technical support from companies in fighting terrorism, as stipulated in China's counter-terrorism law.

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Price-fixing fine for New Zealand agricultural services giant

​New Zealand's largest agricultural services company has been fined 2.7 million NZ dollars (1.84 million U.S. dollars) for price fixing, the commerce regulator said Tuesday.

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Corporate financing in S. Korea jumps on rising bond sales

​Corporate financing in South Korea jumped last month as companies increase sales of bonds amid low borrowing costs, financial watchdog data showed Tuesday.

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Obama says government to engage with tech companies to track terrorists

U.S. President Barack Obama said Friday the federal government would work with high-tech companies to find better ways to track terrorists.

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One in three large Australian companies did not pay tax in 2014: report

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has on Thursday revealed that near 600 of Australia's top earning companies did not pay any tax in 2014.