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U.S. launches currency manipulation probe into Vietnam

Stacks of Vietnam Dong notes. /VCG The United States is opening a "Section 301" investigation into whether Vietnam has been undervaluing its currency and harming U.S. commerce, the U.S. Trade

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UN 75: Mission of the world body since its inception

03:22 The United Nations is marking its 75th anniversary at a time of great disruption.Nations are battling a pandemic that has deepened poverty and hunger, fueled populism and xenopho

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Uncapped picks up another £26M to offer revenue-based finance to European entrepreneurs

Uncapped, the London-headquartered and Warsaw-based startup that offers “revenue-based” finance to European businesses so that founders don’t have to give up equity stipulated by venture capital

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President Trump reportedly has approved the Oracle deal for TikTok’s US operations

President Donald Trump said has has given his stamp of approval “in concept” on the Oracle bid for the U.S. operations of the wildly popular social media app, TikTok, according to a repor

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U.S. current account deficit widens 52.9% in Q2

The U.S. current account deficit widened sharply in the second quarter, the highest level in nearly 12 years, as the COVID-19 pandemic weighed on U.S. exports, the Commerce Department reported Fri

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Outschool, newly profitable, raises a $45M Series B for virtual small group classes

Outschool, which started in 2015 as a platform for homeschooled students to bolster their extracurricular activities, has dramatically widened its customer base since the coronavirus pandemic began.Th

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China's August housing prices grow slightly

Houses in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. /VCG China's housing market remained generally stable in August, with slight month-on-month growth in home prices in major cities, official d

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APD | India pulled out of KavKaz 2020 international military exercises

Editor's note:The author is Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan, Sinologist (ex-Diplomat), Editor, Analyst, Non-Resident Fellow of CCG (Center for China and Globalization), Na

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Pinduoduo Q2 operating loss widens, order volume growth slows

Pinduoduo Inc. was listed on the Nasdaq exchange in New York on July 26, 2018. /VCG Chinese e-commerce company Pinduoduo has reported a bigger second quarter operating loss as it grappled with

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Warner Music acquires IMGN, a social media publishing platform, for under $100M

It’s a whole new playing field these days for music labels and publishers, and today one of the big three made an acquisition to help it sharpen up its strategy to better understand what people

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TikTok is being investigated by France’s data watchdog

More worries for TikTok: A European data watchdog that’s landed the biggest blow on a tech giant to date — slapping Google with a $57M fine last year (upheld in June) — now has an o

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Chasm grows between Trump and government coronavirus experts

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., August 4, 2020. /AP In the early days of the

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Roundup: U.S. sends envoy to push for peace talks in Afghanistan

A U.S. special envoy has departed Friday for a trip aimed at bringing the Afghan government and the Taliban to the negotiation table, the U.S. State Department said Saturday. U.S. Special Repr

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Florida Democrats running to boost Biden from the bottom up

Before the coronavirus pandemic sickened Florida’s economy, and before the Black Lives Matter movement widened her eyes to racial injustice, Kelly Johnson had little in

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Trump replaces campaign manager as polls show him falling further behind Biden

U.S. President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he has replaced his campaign manager Brad Parscale with Bill Stepien, amid recent polls showing he has fallen furt

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U.S. trade deficit widens as exports fall to lowest level since 2009

The U.S. trade deficit widened in May as the COVID-19 pandemic pushed tis exports to their lowest level since 2009, strengthening expectations the economy will contract in the second quarter at it

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UK economy shows biggest drop in 40 years in early 2020

Britain's economy shrank by the most since 1979 in early 2020 as households slashed their spending, according to official data that included the first few days of the coronavirus lockdown.Gross do