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Mali conflict: ECOWAS calls for resignation of MPs to resolve crisis

Mali's Prime Minister Boubou Cisse walks with Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo upon his arrival in Bamako, Mali July 23, 2020. /Press Service of Prime Ministers Office West African regional b

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China Focus: Land reform injects vitality into rural development

In the scorching summer heat, some 2,000 tourists swarm into a new village resort in northeast China's Jilin Province every day to enjoy the cool breeze, green landsca

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Gold's rising trend with equities, still safe-haven status

VCG Photo Editor's note: Jimmy Zhu is a chief strategist at Singapore-based Fullerton Research. The article reflects the author's opinion, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.The price of go

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Russia says U.S. decision to shut China's Houston consulate reflects Washington's hegemonic thinking

The U.S. decision to abruptly order the closure of the Chinese Consulate General in Houston, like previous U.S. pressure tactics against many other countries, "directl

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World shares retreat on rise in U.S.- China tensions

Global shares skidded further from five-month peaks on Friday as a bounce back in European business activity did little to ease the jitters surrounding Sino-U.S. tensions, while gold approached a rec

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Apple begins assembling iPhone 11 in India

Apple’s contract manufacturing partner Foxconn has started to assemble the current generation of iPhone units — the iPhone 11 lineup — in its plant near southern city of Chennai, a source

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Gett raises $100M more to double down on its B2B on-demand ride business

A number of ride-sharing companies are feeling the strain from reduced business, with many consumers still reluctant to travel, and especially to travel in surroundings that might increase the risk of

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Foreign investors keen on China bonds with high inflows in Q2: WSJ

Overseas investors are cranking up holdings of Chinese government bonds with an eye on yields and safety, said a report by the Wall Street Journal on Monday.Chinese gov

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Coronavirus bringing record $1 tn new global corporate debt: study

Companies around the world will take on as much as 1 trillion U.S. dollars of new debt in 2020, as they try to shore up their finances against the coronavirus, a new study of 900 top firms has estima

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Xinhua Headlines: Farewell to poverty in Three Gorges Project regions

- All of the 19 districts and counties in Three Gorges Project regions shook off poverty in May thanks to a series of supportive policies and local government efforts.-

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Singaporean startup Karana raises $1.7 million for meat substitutes made from jackfruit

Singaporeans have a growing appetite for plant-based meat substitutes. In fact, demand for products from companies like Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods and Quorn have grown during the pandemic, partly b

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Nuggs rebrands as Simulate with new cash, a new CTO and an expanded line of faux-meat foods

Nuggs, the alternative-meat company founded by serial entrepreneur Ben Pasternak (who previously co-founded the social media app Monkey), has raised $4.1 million and gotten itself a new name and a new

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Markets aware of divergence between U.S. stocks and its economy

Editor's note: COVID-19: Economic Analysis is a series of articles comprising experts' views on developing micro and macroeconomic situations around the globe amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This arti

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Discover China: Bonsai trees grow into big fortune for farmers in east China

With bonsai trees in various shapes and birds chirping in the garden, Wang Guangming skillfully attached a twig to the branch of a pine tree and then covered the twig

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Fed revisits idea of pledging to keep interest rates low

Federal Reserve policymakers are looking at reviving a Great Recession-era promise to keep interest rates low until certain conditions are met, in a bid to deliver a more rapid recovery from the r

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Wall Street faces danger signs after best quarter since '98

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., March 19, 2020. /Reuters A stock rebound marked by Wall Street's strongest quarter in more than two decades h

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To promote diversity, rewire your broken corporate culture

We have a problem. In tech, our companies are not diverse.This is something we’ve known for a long time, but in an industry where we’ve innovated and solved some of the world’s most challenging proble