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China not to stop promoting higher-quality opening-up: Chinese vice premier

China will open its door even wider to the world, Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng said here Tuesday. Despite the protectionist and unilateral moves by some countries, China will not stop pushing for h

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World should recognize China's "tremendous progress" in poverty reduction, says WFP chief

The world should recognize China's "tremendous progress" in ending poverty and hunger in the last decade, David Beasley, executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), has said

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UK looks to fast-growing Africa for trade ties after Brexit

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Prince Harry touted the U.K. as an ideal business partner for Africa on Monday as their country prepares for post-Brexit dealin

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Chinese premier holds symposium with foreign experts in China

Premier Li Keqiang on Friday afternoon held a symposium with representatives of foreign experts working in China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing ahead of the Spring Festival, or the Chines

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Cloud services provider DigitalOcean is laying off staff, sources say 30-50 affected

After appointing a new CEO and CFO last summer, cloud infrastructure provider DigitalOcean is embarking on a wider reorganisation: the startup has announced a round of layoffs, with potentially betwee

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Chinese ambassador urges Germany to treat Chinese companies equally

Chinese Ambassador to Germany Wu Ken on Thursday invited more German companies to invest in the ever-wider opening China, and urged Germany to treat Chinese investment equally. "German companies are

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China to further push forward reform and opening up, says vice premier

China will further deepen domestic reforms and open up wider to the outside world, Chinese Vice Premier Liu He said here on Wednesday. Liu, who signed the phase-one China-U.S. economic and trade agr

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UN official sees deteriorating security situation in Mali and wider region

The security situation in Mali and the wider Sahel region is deteriorating at an alarming rate, said Jean-Pierre Lacroix, UN undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations, on Wednesday. Last wee

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Huawei announces $25 million bonanza for UK and Ireland app developers

Chinese mobile giant Huawei has offered $25 million in a bid to encourage developers in the UK and the Republic of Ireland to build apps around its mobile ecosystem.The Huawei Developer Program, unve

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Undercover researchers expose illegal antibiotic sales in China

Pharmacists in China are illegally selling antibiotics without prescriptions, putting a large population at the risk of developing antimicrobial resistance.925 out of 1,106 pharmacies checked in 1

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Felix Capital closes $300M fund to double down on DTC, break into fintech and make late-stage deals

To kick off 2020, one of Europe’s newer — and more successful — investment firms has closed a fresh, oversubscribed fund, one sign that VC in the region will continue to run strong i

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Reading Ted Chiang’s ‘The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate’

What would we do if we could visit our own pasts or futures? Are we more likely to change our timelines, or will our timelines actually project themselves back on to us more forcefully?This is the fir

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Microsoft and NSA say a security bug affects millions of Windows 10 computers

Microsoft has released a security patch for a dangerous vulnerability affecting hundreds of millions of computers running Windows 10.The vulnerability is found in a decades-old Windows cryptographic

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US warns UK it would be 'madness' to use Huawei in 5G networks

The US says allowing Huawei into Britain's 5G networks "would be like putting Russia in charge of anti-doping of world athletes".

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US troops in Iraq got warning hours before Iranian attack

American troops were informed of an impending missile barrage hours before their airbase in Iraq was struck by Iran, U.S. military officials said Monday, days after the

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Visa is acquiring Plaid for $5.3 billion, 2x its final private valuation

Visa announced today that it is buying financial services API startup Plaid for $5.3 billion. Plaid develops financial services APIs. It is akin to what Stripe does for payments, but instead of facili

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MI5 chief shrugs off US warnings about Huawei

Sir Andrew Parker's comments come despite Washington officials repeatedly threatening to "reassess" the intelligence relationship.