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China's FX watchdog starts high-level pilots for cross-border business

China's State Administration for Foreign Exchange (SAFE), the country's forex watchdog, on Tuesday announced it would launch a series of high-level regional pilot schem

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Peace through Olympics highlighted at Beijing symposium

An academic symposium titled "Spiritual Dialogue between Chinese and Ancient Greek Civilizations" was held in Beijing on Saturday, nearly a month before the the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.Unde

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China says it has built the world's largest housing guarantee system

A set of apartments, which were transformed from sheds, in Loudi, Hunan Province, China, August 20, 2021. /CFPChina has built the world's largest housing guarantee syst

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Level AI lands $13M Series A to build conversational intelligence for customer service

Level AI, an early stage startup from a former member of the Alexa product team, wants to help companies process customer service calls faster by understanding the interactions they’re having wi

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‘How to hire’ is the new ‘how to conserve runway’

Thanks for reading Startups Weekly. Want the weekly digest in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. When COVID-19 first began to infect the world, my interviews with venture capitalists all somewha

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São Paulo’s QuintoAndar real estate platform raises $120M, now valued at $5.1B

Less than three months after announcing a $300 million Series E, Brazilian proptech QuintoAndar has raised an additional $120 million.New investors Greenoaks Capital and China’s Tencent co-led the rou

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What’s after low-code? And, why should you go public?

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by what the weekday Exchange column digs into, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in

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Which countries are best suited to survive a global systems breakdown?

01:00 The UK, Ireland and Iceland are among five countries most likely to survive a collapse of the global system, according to a new study.A combination of factors including population

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First ever re-programmable satellite blasts into space

Ariane 5 transfers from the final assembly building to the launch pad in preparation for flight VA254 with Star One D2 and Eutelsat Quantum at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. /ESA The wor

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Thousands of Cubans take to the streets in biggest protest in decades

01:16 Cuban authoritiesare urging residents on the island to take to the streets to fight against anti-government protesters. This comes after​​thousands ofdemonstrators turned out on S

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Cuba greenlights local COVID-19 vaccine

02:16 Another big step forward in Cuba’s fight against the coronavirus. The country’s drug regulator​​ has given the ​green light for emergency use of one of five locally developed COVI

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Russia intercepts U.S. reconnaissance plane over Sea of Okhotsk

Russia's Su-30SM fighter jet on Wednesday intercepted a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft over the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, Russian media reported citing the country's Defense Ministry.

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Nicolas Sarkozy's lawyer tells court 'to make mistakes is not a crime'

/Christophe Archambault/AFP The defense has presented its closing statements in the trial of the former France President Nicolas Sarkozy for illegal campaign financing."Nicolas Sarkozy has not

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Brief travel guide to Ganzi – a piece of heaven on Earth

A women in a Tibetan robe turns a prayer wheel. /CFPEditor's note: Traveling offers the chance to witness stunning landscapes and experience wonderful cultures. CGTN is

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Former Italian minister Salvini to stand trial on kidnapping charge

FILE PHOTO: Matteo Salvini former Minister of the Interior of Italy. /Getty Images A judge in Italy ordered former Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini to stand trial for refusing to let a

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The real issue with Georgia's new voting law

The White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Friday, March 26, 2021. /Getty Editor's note: Thomas O. Falk is a London-based political analyst and commentator. He holds a Master of Arts in intern

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U.S.'s decline is a slow-moving reality

Equipment of media crews damaged during riots after former U.S. President Donald Trump's supporters breached the U.S. Capitol security in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 6, 2021. /Getty Editor