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Full text: Remarks by Xi Jinping at the side event of the G20 Summit

Dear Colleagues,Friends,The Earth is our shared home. We may follow the vision of a community with a shared future for mankind and pitch in to tackle climate and other environmental challenges and pr

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APEC launches 2040 Vision, highlights free trade, inclusive growth

The 27th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting on Friday launched the region'sPost-2020 Vision– the key policy document that is set to replace the Bogor Goals, which w

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Xi calls on business leaders to promote openness and development

Chinese President Xi Jinping called on the Asia-Pacific business community to contribute its share to promoting openness and development on Thursday. Delivering a keynote speech at the Asia-Pacifi

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Brain complications 'increasingly reported' in COVID patients with existing conditions

Life-threatening complications including strokes and brain bleeds have been found in a significant number of coronavirus patients.

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Egypt's road network upgrade reduces deaths of traffic accidents

Vehicles run on a bridge in Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 1, 2020. /Xinhua The upgrade of Egypt's national road network and the establishment of new roads and bridges have largely contributed to the decl

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Rockefeller art center coming to China

The Rockefeller Art Foundation plans to invest $1 billion into building an art center in Shanghai, China.org.cn learned during the 3rd China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai on Monday.The

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Bookstore brand launches talks on current affairs

Organizing talks given by important figures in various fields is a new common for bookstores to establish closer connections with today's readers.JIC Bookstore launched its JIC Talks on Thursday a

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Provizio closes $6.2M seed round for its car safety platform using sensors and AI

Provizio, a combination hardware and software startup with technology to improve car safety, has closed a seed investment round of $6.2million. Investors include Bobby Hambrick (the founder of Autonom

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GAIA Design has raised more capital to become the West Elm of Mexico

Designing higher end furniture for Mexico’s rising middle and upper-middle class consumers has netted the Mexico City-based GAIA $15 million in a new round of funding.The bridge round will take

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Nutrium app, which links dietitians and patients, raises $4.9M led by Indico Capital

Nutrium, a digital health startup which links dietitians and their patients via an app, has raised a €4.25 million Seed round led by Indico Capital Partners, alongside the the Social Innovation Fund i

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Stitcher’s podcasts arrive on Pandora with acquisition’s completion

SiriusXM today completed its previously announced $325 million acquisition of podcast platform Stitcher from E.W. Scripps, and has now launched Stitcher’s podcasts on Pandora across all tiers o

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Alibaba to invest $3.6B in China's top hypermarket operator Sun Art

E-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holdings announced on Monday to invest 3.6 billion U.S. dollars in China's top hypermarket operator-- Sun Art Retail Group in an effort to expand its reach in China'

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Catholics in Portugal pray for an end of the COVID-19 pandemic

Thousands of Catholics gathered at the Fatima Sanctuary in Portugal, to pray for those impacted by COVID-19 and an end to the pandemic. As part of an annual pilgrimage that

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Apple launches four new 5G-enabled iPhone 12 models, including first 'iPhone Mini'

A month after a September event in which it didn't even mention the iPhone, Apple has released four new models.

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Free-to-play gaming giant Roblox confidentially files to go public

The gaming company Roblox announced today that it had confidentially filed paperwork with the SEC to make its public debut.In February, the company which operates a free-to-play gaming empire with te

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Startups joining SK Telecom’s accelerator include AI-driven mapping and vision for delivery robots

We don’t often cover telecom technology startups, but it’s periodically worth checking in to see what’s happening in that space. We can get a good indication from the latest cohort to emerge fro

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Kong launches Kong Konnect, its cloud-native connectivity platform

At its (virtual) Kong Summit 2020, API platform Kong today announced the launch of Kong Konnect, its managed end-to-end cloud-native connectivity platform. The idea here is to give businesses a singl