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Xi urges promoting spirit of model worker, craftsmanship

Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged nationwide efforts to carry on the spirit of model worker, labor and craftsmanship, urging the young generations of technical wor

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China's oldest sculpture among top 10 discoveries of 2020

A 13,500-year-old bird figurine unearthed at the open-air Lingjing site, an archaeological site in central China's Henan province, has made the list of the world's top 10 discoveries in 2020 p

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Expert: WHO is promoting equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines

02:59 More than 100 world leaders and government ministers are scheduled to speak at the UN General Assembly's special session that opened on Thursday to discuss the response to COVID-

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Russia's COVID-19 cases up 26,190 to 2,541,199

A medical worker prepares COVID-19 vaccine injection in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 8, 2020./Xinhua Russia registered 26,190 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking its total to 2,541,199, th

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Wikifactory has raised $4.5m for its ‘Github for hardware’ to make almost anything remotely

Karl Marx famously argued in ‘Das Kapital’ that to achieve freedom from the slavery of capitalism, the worker must own the means of production. Perhaps that day is edging closer. Today Wik

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How Biden can create good jobs

VCG Editor's note:Dani Rodrik, professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the author of "Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a

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Watchdog: Trump adviser Navarro violated political activity law

White House economic advisor Peter Navarro looks down from the steps of Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., August 6, 2020. /Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump's trade advise

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Cloudflare is testing a Netlify competitor to host Jamstack sites

Cloudflare is working on a new product called Cloudflare Pages. The new product could compete directly with Netlify and Vercel, two cloud hosting companies that let you build and deploy sites using J

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Shop-Ware raises cash as cars make a comeback

Shop-Ware has been waiting for a year like 2020 since 2015.The startup, which sells software to neighborhood automotive shops to digitize their operations, had struggled to capture capital from ventur

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Biden's economic team starkly contrasts with Trump loyalists

Editor's note:Hannan Hussain is a foreign affairs commentator and author. He is a Fulbright recipient at the University of Maryland (U.S.) and a former assistant researcher at the Islamabad Policy

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Salesforce buys Slack in a $27.7B megadeal

Salesforce, the CRM powerhouse that recently surpassed $20 billion in annual revenue, announced today it is wading deeper into enterprise social by acquiring Slack in a $27.7 billion megadeal. Rumors

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China's manufacturing PMI rises to 52.1 in November

The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector came in at 52.1 in November, up from 51.4 in October, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Monday.The figure marks the

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China halts operation at Korean chip plant after worker tests positive for coronavirus

A Chinese factory owned by South Korean semiconductor giant SK Hynix Inc halted operations on Sunday after a plant worker was found to have an asymptomatic infection of

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Finding ways out of Africa's COVID-19 vaccine unpreparedness

A health worker takes a swab sample from a girl during the COVID-19 mass testing exercise in Kangemi, Nairobi, capital of Kenya, October 17, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note:Stephen Ndegwa is a Nai

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CDC says COVID-19 cases in U.S. may be 8 times higher than reported

A medical worker takes a nose swab from a person for a nucleic acid test in Tacoma, Washington, December 28, 2020. /VCG The true number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. may be eight times high

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China halts operation at Korean chip plant after worker tests positive for coronavirus  

A Chinese factory owned by South Korean semiconductor giant SK Hynix Inc halted operations on Sunday after a plant worker was found to have an asymptomatic infection of

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China halts operation at Korean chip plant after worker tests positive for coronavirus  

A Chinese factory owned by South Korean semiconductor giant SK Hynix Inc halted operations on Sunday after a plant worker was found to have an asymptomatic infection of