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Trying out digital currency at Hainan Expo

01:58 China has moved quickly in digital currency electronic payment, piloting the new money in several major cities and provinces since last year.Compared with the widely used WeChat P

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Sinopharm a lifeline to nations without easy access to West's vaccines

Editor's note:CGTN's First Voice provides instant commentary on breaking stories. The daily column clarifies emerging issues and better defines the news agenda, offering a Chinese perspective on t

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Biden: Improve ties with everyone except China (Part II)

High-level strategic dialogue between China and the U.S. starts in Anchorage, Alaska, U.S., March 18, 2021. /Xinhua In sharp contrast to the détentes being pursued with all other major America

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Biden: Improve ties with everyone except China (Part I)

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 25, 2021. /Getty Editor's note: A. B. Abrams is the author of the

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Nordic analysis calls out propaganda nature of U.S. report on Xinjiang

A passenger walks on the platform of a metro station in Stockholm, Sweden, October 11, 2019. /Xinhua A Swedish report has seriously questioned a controversial U.S.-led report on northwest Chin

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COVID-19 threatens India’s rural communities as virus grips country

00:53 Cases of the coronavirus have spread from outside of India’s major cities, as rural communities have faced a major surge in cases and deaths in April.As the DW news agency reports

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Look out PiedPiper – iSIZE reduces power for video streaming, raises $6.3M in round led by Octopus

It’s widely known that video streaming boomed during the pandemic, as millions of people were faced by boredom during lockdowns. But an unintended consequence of this was the growing environmental imp

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Dell dumps another big asset moving Boomi to Francisco Partners and TPG for $4B

It’s widely known that Dell has a debt problem left over from its massive acquisition of EMC in 2016, and it seems to be moving this year to eliminate part of it in multi-billion chunks. The fir

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China says 33 apps gathered users' info irrelevant to services

China's regulation to supervise the operations of commonly used APPs collecting users' personal information took effect on Saturday, May 1, 2021. /CFPThirty-three mobil

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Karst funnel-like forests in SW China

The Maolan National Nature Reserve (Maolan Karst Forest) in Libo County in southwest China's Guizhou Province features typical karst landforms with peaks and valleys th

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Maradona care 'deficient and reckless' before death, report finds

Archive image of late football legend Diego Maradona of Argentina in action during the 1982 World Cup. /CFP A medical board appointed to investigate the death of Diego Maradona has concluded t

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Japan says Olympics must not burden health systems amid nurses protest

Tokyo 2020 president Seiko Hashimoto attends a conference in Tokyo, Japan, April 30, 2021. /CFP The Olympics must not be a burden on medical systems, Japan's chief government spokesman said on

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What we know about the coronavirus variant B.1.617 in India

Patients sit on bed waiting to be moved to a hospital amidst the spread of the coronavirus in Ahmedabad, India, April 14, 2021. /Reuters India has recorded the world's sharpest spike in coron

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Documentary's sneak viewings play to a packed house

Seats were fully booked weeks before The Dakini Code: Lotus-Born Master and the Event Horizon's sneak previews ran at the Auspicious Thanka Gallery in Beijing's 798 Art Zone from April 25-26.S

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How Shopify aims to level the playing field with its machine learning-driven model of lending

Shopify is widely known for giving independent merchants a platform to start, run, market and manage their businesses.But over the past 5 years, the company has been steadily growing another part of i

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Barkyn, a wellness startups for pets in Southern Europe, hits an $9.6M Series A round

Barkyn, a European subscription service for pets that combines food with tele-vet services, has raised a further €3 milion ($3.6M) from FoodTech investor Five Seasons Ventures, extending its previous

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Internal rates of return in emerging US tech hubs are starting to overtake Silicon Valley

Tech innovation is becoming more widely distributed across the United States.Among the five startups launched in 2020 that raised the most financing, four were based outside the Bay Area. Prominent VC