... he country. In its biggest shift since losing its global empire, the United Kingdom slipped away at 2300 GMT, turning its back after 47 years on the post-World War Two project that sought to build the ...More
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Libra, Facebook’s digital currency initiative, has been faltering since late last year as partners started backing out after regulators opposed the plan. In a post-earnings conference call this week, ...More
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... 200 people. The Yangtze marks the dividing line between Jiujiang in Jiangxi province and Huanggang in neighboring Hubei, one of the cities hit hardest by the coronavirus outbreak and now sealed off fr ...More
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Amid the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, cinemas across China have been shut down to help contain the spread of the disease. Leading film studios in the country were thus forced to cancel the holiday rele ...More
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The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 200 people in China a global emergency, as cases spread to at least 18 countries, Reuters reports. China ...More
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Amazon.com Inc. posted holiday quarter results well above expectations as the expansion of its one-day shipping program came under budget and membership in its Prime loyalty club notched a 50 percent ...More
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... e services. The Payment Services Act, passed in January last year, came into force on Tuesday. With the new act, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has launched the first formal comprehensive s ...More
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The California Institute of Technology said it won a US$1.1 billion jury verdict in a patent case against Apple and Broadcom, Reuters reports. In a case filed in federal court in Los Angeles in 2016, ...More
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At the stroke of midnight in Brussels on Friday, Britain will leave the European Union and Prime Minister Boris Johnson will deliver on his election promise to “Get Brexit Done”. But he won’t have lon ...More
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According to figures recently released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), China's population exceeded 1.4 billion in 2019. However, the number of newborns recorded last year only stood at 14. ...More
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... Kong (HKU). Considering that the government only started implementing border controls from Thursday, and hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers have already been returning from the mainland, it may take ...More
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Microsoft Corp. reported fiscal second-quarter sales and profit that beat Wall Street expectations, driven by the first acceleration of Azure cloud computing revenue growth in eight quarters, Reuters ...More
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... wing costs. “We believe the current stance of monetary policy is appropriate to support sustained economic growth, a strong labor market and inflation returning to our symmetric 2 percent objective,” ...More
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Amid the social unrest, the huge question is whether "one country, two systems" in Hong Kong will remain intact for 50 years as promised – or grind to a sudden halt. As we all know, the idea of "one c ...More
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... oronavirus. Macau late on Tuesday said it would curb its individual visit scheme through which visitors gain entry from mainland China, days after it suspended inbound package tours. Since Friday, arr ...More
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According to the Chinese almanac, 2020 is the Year of the Rat – the symbol of wealth and vitality. With how the markets have been performing, many investors are hoping that this is the year their port ...More
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... o science”. Other decisive acts followed and, by Sunday (Jan. 26), more than 56 million people in Hubei province, of which Wuhan is the capital, were quarantined, with many other cities taking their o ...More
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On Jan. 15, US President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He signed a “phase one” agreement aimed at containing the two countries’ long-running bilateral trade war. But no sooner had the deal ...More
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... rs reports. The US Justice Department lawsuits said most of the calls originated in India and used voice over internet protocol (VoIP) carriers, which use internet connections instead of traditional c ...More
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