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ALIBABA ACCEPTS CHINA’S RECORD FINE AND VOWS TO CHANGE
Chinese tech giant Alibaba said it accepted a record penalty imposed by the country's anti-monopoly regulator. Regulators slapped a US$ 2.8
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CHINA CONSIDERS MIXING COVID-19 VACCINES
China’s top disease control official has said the country is formally considering mixing COVID-19 vaccines as a way of further boosting vaccine efficacy
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IMF AND WORLD BANK URGED TO HELP MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES’ DEBT
The International Monetary Fund and World Bank should do more to help address the growing debt challenges of middle-income countries and identify the “root causes of excessive and unsustainable debt,”…
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INDIA’S BILLIONAIRE CLUB
The total number of Indian billionaires rose to 140 from 102 last year; their combined wealth has nearly doubled to US$ 596 billion. Click
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THE WORLD’S FASTEST COMPUTER IS FIGHTING COVID-19
The newly crowned world's fastest supercomputer is being deployed in the fight against the coronavirus. Japan's Fugaku supercomputer claimed the top spot on Monday and has already been put to…
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PRINCE PHILIP PASSES AWAY
Buckingham Palace officials say Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has died. He was 99.
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STOCKS STAND FIRM
Global stocks held firm near record highs on Friday as receding inflation fears in the US pushed down bond yields and lifted Wall Street, though
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THE CITY OF BILLIONAIRES
Beijing is now home to more billionaires than any other city in the world, according to the latest Forbes' latest annual rich list. The Chinese capital
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HISTORIC SETBACK FOR THE GLOBAL MIDDLE CLASS
An estimated 150 million have slipped down the economic ladder in 2020, the first pullback in almost three decades
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UAE BEGINS MASS RECRUITMENT TO BOOST EMPLOYMENT MARKET
Dozens of Expo 2020 Dubai pavilions have begun to hire thousands of staff in anticipation of the global event's launch in
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