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  • In this photo illustration a Facebook logo seen displayed onInternational

    Why Google conceded to Australia’s new media regulation—and Facebook went nuclear

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  • A search for ‘Australia News’ on the Google homepage, arranged on a desktop computer in Sydney, Australia, on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. Google threatened to disable its search engine in Australia if its forced to pay local publishers for news, a dramatic escalation of a months-long standoff with the government. Photographer: David Gray/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesInternational

    Google’s deals with news publishers may avoid what it sees as a worst-case scenario

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  • TOKYO, JAPAN – 2021/02/11: Visitors wearing face masks as a preventive measure against Covid19 enjoy the view of plum blossoms. The Japanese plum (Ume) symbolizes the start of spring. (Photo by Stanislav Kogiku/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)International

    How the world’s third-largest economy beat expectations in 2020

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  • US President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the Pentagon in Washington, DC, February 10, 2021. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)International

    What Biden and China President Xi Jinping talked about in their first phone call

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  • Police officers stand guard in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. India’s government fortified Delhi’s borders and asked Twitter to block the accounts of key protest leaders and journalists as it braced for another major street demonstration Saturday planned by farmers agitating against the country’s new agricultural laws. Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesInternational

    Twitter relents in its standoff with Indian government over farmer protest tweets

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  • Key Interviews At The JP Morgan Global China SummitInternational

    Hong Kong stock exchange hires J.P. Morgan exec as its next CEO

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  • WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 15 : President Donald J. Trump signs a trade agreement with Chinese Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China, Liu He in the East Room at the White House on Wednesday, Jan 15, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)International

    The centerpiece of Trump’s trade deal with China ‘failed spectacularly’

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  • KUNSHAN, CHINA – OCTOBER 24: A Vipshop logo is seen on building at east China regional headquarters of Vipshop on October 24, 2016 in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)International

    Beijing extends its anti-monopoly campaign with new rules and a $500,000 fine

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  • Signage in a courtyard at the Kuaishou Technology headquarters in Beijing, China, on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Kuaishou Technology, the operator of China’s most popular video service after ByteDance Ltd.’s Douyin, raised HK$42 billion ($5.4 billion) after pricing its Hong Kong initial public offering at the top of a marketed range. Photographer: Yan Cong/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesInternational

    Chinese short-video app Kuaishou jumps nearly 200% in its Hong Kong debut

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  • CHINA-SHAANXI-AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS-LIVE STREAMING-SALES (CN)International

    China’s livestreaming farmers are powering the biggest Internet IPO since Uber

    By Eamon Barrett and Naomi Xu Elegant
  • A food delivery worker exits the campus of the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. headquarters in Hangzhou, China, on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. Alibaba Co-Founder Jack Ma resurfaced for the first time since Chinas government began clamping down on his business empire nearly three months ago, appearing in a live-streamed video that sent Alibaba’s stock soaring but left plenty of unanswered questions about the billionaires fate. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesInternational

    Why Alibaba’s stock price fell despite better-than-expected quarterly results

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  • NEW DELHI, INDIA – SEPTEMBER 3: A health worker draws a blood sample from a person for use in the third round of serological survey testing for coronavirus, at Feroz Shah Kotla, on September 3, 2020 in New Delhi, India. (Photo by Amal KS/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)International

    Survey finds 56% of Delhi has COVID antibodies, adding to India’s declining cases mystery

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  • Jack Ma, chairman of Alibaba Group, attends a news conference in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016. Zhejiang Ant Small & Micro Financial Services Group Co., Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.s financial affiliate, is counting on partners outside China to bring its model of online finance and local services to emerging Asian markets. Photographer: Anthony Kwan/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesInternational

    What will a restructuring mean for Ant Group’s valuation? One estimate sees it dropping 50%

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  • INDIA – MARCH 20: Extensive new development in business district a sign of economic growth, by twin towers in Tardeo South Mumbai, India from Nariman Point (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images)International

    Foreign investment cratered in 2020. India was a surprise bright spot

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  • HONG KONG – MARCH 8: An airline stewardess heads towards a departure gate at Chek Lap Kok airport March 7, 2003 in Hong Kong. Cathay Pacific Airways, Hong Kong’s largest airliner, has posted a sixfold rise in net profit for 2002 with a rise in passenger and cargo traffic. (Photo by Christian Keenan/Getty Images)International

    Meet the airline launching in the middle of the pandemic

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