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How would Taiwan election pan out in the backdrop of HK protests

Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen (L) leaves after the second live policy address ahead of January's election in Taipei, December 25, 2019. /Reuters Photo Editor's note: Tian Feilong is an associate

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How would Taiwan election pan out in the backdrop of HK protests

Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen (L) leaves after the second live policy address ahead of January's election in Taipei, December 25, 2019. /Reuters Photo Editor's note: Tian Feilong is an associate

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Alphabet’s controversial chief legal officer David Drummond is leaving, saying he has decided to retire

The changing of the guard at Alphabet continues. Roughly one month after Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced they’d be stepping down as the CEO and president of the search giant

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Jail for man who put navy personnel at risk by selling unfit tech

Carl Tiltman used false test results to lie about the capabilities of underwater scanning technology.

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Shanghai attracts record foreign capital in 2019

An estimated 19.05 billion U.S. dollars of foreign capital entered Shanghai in 2019, a new high in the city's history, the municipal government said Friday. An average of over 52 million U.S. dollar

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Man sentenced for scalping over 3,700 train tickets

A man was sentenced Thursday to 11 months in prison and fined 1.24 million yuan (178,000 U.S. dollars) for scalping over 3,749 train tickets in east China's Jiangxi Pr

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China-made HPV vaccine comes to the rescue

Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide and the sixth most common in China. And there's a way to prevent it: HPV vaccination. What is HPV?Did you know that human papill

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Spotlight: China's import expo road show attracts crowd of Israeli officials, businesses

The third China International Import Expo (CIIE) road show was held on Thursday in the Israeli city Tel Aviv, attracting more than 100 delegates from the Israeli gover

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China, Djibouti FMs hold talks, vowing to push strategic partnership to new level

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday vowed to boost pragmatic cooperation with Djibouti and called for promoting the bilateral strategic partnership to a new level. Wang

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Atletico beat Barcelona to set up Super Cup derby with Real Madrid

Atletico Madrid celebrate as they reach the Spanish Super Cup final in Saudi Arabia, January 9, 2020. Atletico Madrid pulled off a stunning turnaround to beat Barcelona 3-2 in an enthralling S

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Sri Lanka prepared for economic uncertainty following U.S.-Iran tension

COLOMBO, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Sri Lankan government on Thursday said it is prepared to face economic uncertainty following escalating tensions between the United States and Iran, two of Sri Lanka's

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French march in nationwide protest as pensions crisis continues

04:19 More than 40,000 people marched in Paris in the latest show of opposition to the government's plans to reform pensions. It formed part of a nationwide strike on Thursday that sev

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Warner Bros to use artificial intelligence to predict box office hits

Cinelytic's AI-driven platform uses predictive tools and collated data to work out optimum casting, distribution and release date.

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North Bund becomes new cluster for foreign enterprises in Shanghai

North Bund, a new cluster of foreign enterprises in Shanghai, has helped Hongkou District attract foreign investment worth 1.28 billion U.S. dollars in 2019, according to Hongkou District Commission

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Big data: Guizhou's new calling card

01:20 In a recent commentary, Nature,a weekly international journal, concluded that China "has transformed from a low-cost manufacturing base to a center of knowledge creation." This p

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Hamas says chief's visit to Iran "must not affect ties with Egypt"

Hamas, ruler of the Gaza Strip, said on Wednesday that the visit of its chief Ismail Haniyeh to Iran "must not affect the ties with Egypt." Mahmoud al-Zahar, a senior

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Chinese envoy calls for intensifying counter-terrorism efforts in West Africa, Sahel

Wu Haitao (C, front), China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, addresses a Security Council meeting on West Africa, at the UN headquarters in New York, Jan. 8, 2020. (Xinhua/Li