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Clayderman still in tune with his audience

When he first performed in China with five concerts in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong in 1992, French pianist Richard Clayderman and his team seemed out of tune with their surroundings and were not,

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2019 second hottest year on record: EU

2019 was the second hottest year on record and ended the hottest decade in history, the European Union's climate monitoring service said Wednesday.Data released by the Copernicus Climate Change Se

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What's left for Boeing after three fatal crashes?

Boeing 737 MAX planes have been grounded after two fatal crashes. A Boeing 737-800 operated by Ukrainian International Airlines and carrying 176 people crashed due to a currently unidentified

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Wilderness, drought, lack of comprehensive plan blamed for Australia's worst bushfire

The scale of Australia's ongoing bushfire crisis has astounded onlookers around the globe, with at least 25 lives have been lost, thousands of homes destroyed and an estimated 480 million animals pe

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U.S. trade association "alarmed" about administration's broad use of Section 301 tariffs

The American Association of Exporters and Importers (AAEI) said Tuesday its members are "concerned" about the proposed section 301 tariffs on French imports, calling the administration's broad use o

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China's forex reserves near $3.11 trillion

China's foreign exchange reserves came in at 3.1079 trillion U.S. dollars at the end of 2019, official data showed on Tuesday.The amount increased by 12.3 billion U.S.

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Qualcomm, ZTE announce achievement with 5G VoNR call during CES 2020

U.S. leading chip producer Qualcomm and China's telecommunication company ZTE announced during the 2020 Customer Electronics Show (CES) kicked off here Monday that they together had achieved 5G-enab

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France, US: 2 week deadline to resolve dispute over digital tax

French Minister Bruno Le Maire said France is increasing efforts to find a compromise with the US over the digital tax dispute (Credit: AFP) France and the United States have given themselves

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Jack Ma: There is enormous potential in educational reform

"The biggest gain of reform is education, and there is enormous potential in educational reform," Jack Ma said at the Annual Rural Teacher Award Ceremony in Sanya, south China's Hainan province, o

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Police investigating ransomware attack on Travelex

Although the specifics of the attack on Travelex are currently unknown, police say they are investigating if it is ransomware.

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U.S.'s missile shield, Iraq withdrawal and war crime threats

Demonstrators burn the U.S. and British flags during a protest against the killing of Qasem Soleimani in Tehran, Iran, January 3, 2020. /Reuters Photo Editor's note: Andrew Korybko is a Moscow

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Software and the war against complexity

Look around: what is happening? Australia, AI, Ghosn, Google, Suleimani, Starlink, Trump, TikTok. The world is an eruptive flux of frequently toxic emergent behavior, and every unexpected event is lac

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APD | Duterte directs Armed Forces to prepare for possible evacuation of Filipino in Iran and Iraq

By APD writer Melo M. AcuñaThe Philippine President Duterte met with Secretary Delfin N. Lorenzana, the newly-installed Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Felimon Sant

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'Spies in Disguise' hits Chinese theaters

Entertaining animated comedy Spies in Disguise opens in China on Friday, being the first release by Blue Sky Studios as a unit of The Walt Disney Company since the latter's purchase of 20th Centur

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U.S. army bans Tiktok as lawmakers push for tech 'decoupling'

U.S. army bans Tiktok on government-owned phones. Tiktok, the latest epicenter of the "Gen Z" Internet culture, is better known for being the place where viral memes and goofy videos took off,

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News Analysis: Iran's retaliation to Soleimani's assassination to probably occur from Lebanon

Retaliation from Lebanon to the assassination of Iran's senior commander Qassem Soleimani is highly possible, experts said. Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, an

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China greenlights first self-developed 13-valent pneumonia vaccine

The National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has given the go-ahead for the launch of China's first self-developed 13-valent pneumonia vaccine to better protect