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Tangchang cloth shoes: provincial cultural heritage in Sichuan

Lai Shufang makes handmade shoes in Zhanqi Village of Tangchang Township in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 17, 2020. Lai Shufang, 62, has been engaged in handmade Tangchang sho

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Arsenal psychologist in constant contact with players during lockdown

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta gestures during the Premier League match with West Ham United in London, UK, March 7, 2020. /VCG Arsenal's psychologist has been in constant communication with the

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A farm stay's path to diversified growth amid pandemic-dented business

03:43 About a four-hour drive from downtown Chengdu, farm stays – places where urban dwellers can get a taste of life on the farm – in Wanshou Village, Bazhong City are grappling with

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Pandemic-hit food chain company says goodbye to Wuhan

02:13 Wuhan has just ended of its 76-day lockdown, but many businesses are still paying the price, with the slow pace of consumption having some sectors worried.Wuhan Shijiecheng Shopp

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Trump pushes states to lift virus restrictions

People wearing protective masks past coronavirus-related murals that have been painted on closed businesses in Austin, Texas, Friday, April 17, 2020. Austin remains under stay-at-home orders d

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Hong Kong university expects huge costs of fixing rioters-trashed campus

Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) expects the costs of repairing campus facilities damaged by rioters during the half-month-long occupation in November could re

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U.S. small business lending program in coronavirus relief package exhausted

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) said on Thursday that its lending program for small businesses hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic has run out of money. "The SB

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Changing policy, Y Combinator cuts its pro rata stake and makes investments case-by-case

In a message posted to its internal communications channel earlier this week, the massive startup accelerator Y Combinator said it will change the terms of its own PPP (the YC pro rata investment prog

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Choco gobbles up $30.2M at a $250M+ valuation, tweaks restaurant supplier ordering platform to sell to consumers during pandemic

Food-related and delivery tech businesses have been seeing a huge wave of customer demand in the last few weeks as people on lockdown turn to them to buy necessary supplies (see also: the big funding

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ServiceNow pledges no layoffs in 2020

You don’t need your PhD in economics to know the economy is in rough shape right now due to the impact of COVID-19, but ServiceNow today pledged that it would not lay off a single employee in 20

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South Koreans vote in national elections amid virus fears

South Korean voters wore masks and moved slowly between lines of tape at polling stations on Wednesday to elect lawmakers in the shadows of the spreading coronavirus.Th

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Why has China's medical aid drawn suspicion?

02:09 Editor's note: As China sends medical aid to a wide range of countries, doubts have arisen with regards to the motivations for China to do so. Daryl Guppy, a national board membe

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Chinese embassy in Egypt holds online lecture on COVID-19

Chinese Embassy in Egypt and Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH) jointly held an online lecture on COVID-19 on Tuesday here in Cairo. Chinese Ambassador to Egypt Liao Liqiang, doctors from

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COVID-19 Frontline: Tests, recurrence and transmission

Editor's Note: The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 12. As of April 13, 213countries and regions worldwide have confirmed over 1.7 million cases, with more than 1

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Most Los Angeles residents support strong measures in COVID-19 fight: survey

An overwhelming majority of Los Angeles residents support the strong measures taken by local officials to slow the rate of coronavirus infection, according to a new su

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Huawei warns cutting 5G role would be 'disservice' to Britain

Its UK chief takes on critics ahead of an expected showdown between the PM and senior Tory MPs in the summer.

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Exclusive with Andrea Bocelli: singing a prayer for the world

02:06 Standing alone in front of the empty Duomo di Milano, Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli performed a concert that was broadcast live online on one of the most peculiar Easter Sundays i