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CIFTIS to promote balanced recovery of world economy: UNCTAD economist

Journalists visit a venue of the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 31,

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Universal Beijing Resort starts trial run

The Universal Beijing Resort (UBR) started trial operation on Wednesday after more than three months' stress tests.According to the UBR, the Universal Studios Beijing theme park, the Universal Cit

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Berlin Brands Group, now valued at $1B+, raises $700M to buy and scale merchants that sell on marketplaces like Amazon

Berlin Brands Group — one of the new wave of e-commerce startups hoping to build lucrative economies of scale around buying up smaller brands that sell on marketplaces like Amazon and using tech

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Spotify officially launches Blend, allowing friends to match their musical tastes and make playlists together

Spotify today is officially rolling out its shared playlist feature called Blend to global users, with a few changes. Earlier this summer, Spotify had first launched the new shared playlist experience

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Rattle raises $2.8M from Lightspeed and Sequoia to modernize enterprise sales stack

Tech employees build amazing consumer-facing apps for the world. But for their internal communications, they are stuck using applications that don’t play well with one another.This is a problem since

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Vaccine candidate backed by project to develop affordable jabs begins late-stage trials

The drug is being developed by South Korea's SKL Bioscience as part of a project that has backing from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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How India can stop its rape crisis

09:22 High profile cases of sexual violence against women and girls in India seem to follow a similar trajectory. A brutal rape takes place, people protest, officials sometimes make som

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Prive has raised $1.7 million to build a more configurable e-commerce subscription platform

Prive, a months-old, San Francisco-based startup founded by two former Uber product managers, just raised $1.7 million in pre-seed funding to create what it describes as a far more customizable e-comm

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Telegram tops 1 billion downloads

Popular instant messaging app Telegram has joined the elite club of apps that have been downloaded over 1 billion times globally, according to Sensor Tower.The Dubai-headquartered app, which was launc

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Leaded petrol phased out to prevent million of deaths, neuro disorders

The world has ended using a harmful additive in petrol notorious for causing millions of premature deaths and severe neurological disorders, the United Nations announced on Monday.Refineries world

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US blockbuster 'Free Guy' hits Chinese theaters

Disney and 20th Century Studios' epic adventure-comedy Free Guy hit Chinese theaters on Friday, grossing more than 155 million yuan (US$23.9 million) over the weekend after topping North American

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Clubhouse is adding spatial audio effects to make users feel like they’re really in the room

It’s been a busy summer for Clubhouse. The hit social audio app rolled out new messaging features and an Android app over the last few months and now the company is turning its attention to enhancing

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Can the world really just fall apart?

Books on climate change, as diverse as the library is, tend to fall into a couple of categories. There are the field guides and observational accounts that chronicle the destruction of our world and m

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Shenzhen announces construction of world's largest LEGOLAND resort

Construction of the world's largest LEGOLAND resort has begun in Shenzhen, parent company Merlin Entertainments announced on Thursday.Located on the Dapeng Peninsula on the eastern edge of Shenzhe

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Are closer Chinese-Afghan ties a Western self-fulfilling prophecy?

Even before the ignoble ending of the occupation of Afghanistan, the Western press had been awash with stories of an imminent Afghan refugee crisis. However, their conc

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Are closer Chinese-Afghan ties a Western self-fulfilling prophecy?

Even before the ignoble ending of the occupation of Afghanistan, the Western press had been awash with stories of an imminent Afghan refugee crisis. However, their conc

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Uganda receives first batch of evacuees from Afghanistan

Taliban fighters stand guard outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport during an evacuation at Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Afghanistan on Tuesday, August. 24, 2021. (Photo by Bashir Darwi