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​Fourth mainland firm makes ATV rescue bid

Cash-strapped Asia Television (ATV) has received two offers to provide up to HK$800 million in two days after a fourth mainland firm announced a bid to help save the city’s oldest television station just weeks away from its final free-to-air broadcast.

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China's opening up to benefit global economy, overseas experts say

Many overseas experts believe that China's pledge to further open itself up will not only benefit China's economic stabilization and growth, but also the global economy.

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Investors may be jumpy on China focus

Regional markets enjoyed a good run in the past week, but more volatility could be on the cards as attention turns back to slowing China, according to analysts.

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Vietnam strives to achieve 7 pct economic growth in 2016

Vietnamese Prime Minister (PM) Nguyen Tan Dung on Monday suggested cabinet members to take efforts so as to lift the country's economic growth target from 6. 7 percent to around 7 percent in 2016.

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China to create more makerspaces to serve real economy

China will set up more innovation and entrepreneurship incubators, or "makerspaces," to support economic restructuring and industrial upgrading, the State Council announced Thursday.

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Outlook bright and stable as China spends big

China's slowdown may have spawned pessimism around the world, with predictions of a new round of "China doom and gloom," but the real picture in China's shopping malls, cinemas, restaurants and job market is anything but downbeat. There are few at home who foresee anything but sound, stable growth in 2016.

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Texting while walking isn’t funny anymore

As pedestrian injuries rise, what responsibility do tech companies have to address our addiction?

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Thailand's January tourist arrivals up 15 percent over last year

International tourist arrivals in Thailand rose 15 percent in January from a year earlier, government data showed, as the industry continued to expand in a sluggish domestic economy.

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Chinese tourists contribute to growth in New Zealand accommodation sector

​A surge in Chinese travelers helped maintain a boom in New Zealand's accommodation sector in November last year, according to figures from the government statistics agency Tuesday.

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Illicit drugs causing more deaths on Australia's roads than alcohol: statistics

More motorists are dying as a result of illicit drugs than that of alcohol, new figures from the Australian state of Victoria have revealed on Thursday.

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Gov't-approved facial tracking database could put Australians' privacy at risk

​Concerns have been raised about the privacy of Australians following a plan by the government to set up a potentially invasive facial recognition database.

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Aussie gov't asks businesses to fund Great Barrier Reef restoration projects

​The Australian government has put a call out for wealthy Australian companies to "sponsor" the Great Barrier Reef, as part of a new plan to boost the world-class attraction's health.

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CY Leung calls separate rail link immigration checkpoints ‘entirely unfeasible’

Chief executive expresses confidence that a single checkpoint set-up would be implemented in line with ‘one country, two systems’ principle

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91 suspects repatriated in past year

China ramps up international manhunt as nationwide anti-graft campaign continues

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China's 13th Five-Year Plan to benefit world

​China's newly-released Five-Year Plan has attracted worldwide attention and sparked a buzz as it lays out the development guidelines and targets of the world's second-largest economy in the next five years, whose development and prosperity will benefit the world as a whole.

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HK stages bird flu drill

​Hong Kong's Agriculture, Fisheries & Conservation Department conducted on Tuesday an exercise to review its preparedness for an avian flu outbreak.

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China stocks surge over 3 pct Monday on liquidity injection

Chinese shares surged on Monday, with the market gaining confidence from the central bank's latest move to expand a pilot program to ease monetary flows by cutting loan costs.