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Hong Kong unveils US$97bn recovery budget
AFP, Published on 22/02/2023
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong's finance chief unveiled a HK$761 billion (US$97 billion) budget on Wednesday, plunging into the coffers to pay for the recession-hit city's post-Covid recovery.
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Cryptocurrency platform FTX files for bankruptcy
AFP, Published on 12/11/2022
» NEW YORK: Crisis-struck cryptocurrency platform FTX has gone bankrupt in the United States and its chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried has resigned, it said Friday, the latest blow in a saga that has reverberated across the digital currency landscape.
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Musk-ruled Twitter: users left to fight trolls and misinformation?
AFP, Published on 26/04/2022
» SAN FRANCISCO: Elon Musk's vow to let everyone say whatever they want on Twitter after his takeover of the social media giant could put the onus on users to combat bullying and misinformation on the platform, experts say.
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US slaps sanctions on Putin's daughters, Russia's biggest banks
AFP, Published on 06/04/2022
» WASHINGTON: The White House announced sanctions Wednesday targeting Russia's top public and private banks and two daughters of Vladimir Putin, adding pressure on the country's economy and its elite over the invasion of Ukraine.
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Germany's DAX index grows from 30 to 40 firms in revamp
AFP, Published on 20/09/2021
» FRANKFURT - Ten companies will join the DAX on Monday as the blue-chip stock market index undergoes its biggest facelift in its 33-year history in response to turmoil in the German corporate world.
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Wall Street 'predators' make allies of political foes
AFP, Published on 02/02/2021
» NEW YORK: Recent stock market mayhem has done what appeals to rise above self-interest could not -- gotten US politicians of all stripes to agree.
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Xi to open virtual Davos forum as virus-hit West struggles
AFP, Published on 25/01/2021
» PARIS: Chinese President Xi Jinping was on Monday slated to open an all-virtual World Economic Forum, with his country still appearing on track to emerge stronger from the coronavirus pandemic that continues to wreak havoc elsewhere.
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Leaders need to fix broken economic models: IMF chief
AFP, Published on 10/10/2018
» NUSA DUA, Indonesia: World leaders need to fix global trading systems instead of trying to tear them down, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said Wednesday, in a rebuke to nationalist politicians pushing tariffs and protectionism.
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Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha: author of Leicester's football fairytale
AFP, Published on 28/10/2018
» LONDON: Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, the billionaire owner of Leicester City, whose helicopter crashed Saturday outside the Premier League club's stadium, is the author of one of football's greatest fairytales.
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Britain's Brexit minister steps down in blow to May
AFP, Published on 09/07/2018
» LONDON: Britain's Brexit minister David Davis and one of his deputies resigned on Sunday in a major blow for Prime Minister Theresa May as she tries to unite her party behind a plan to retain strong economic ties to the European Union even after leaving the bloc.
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