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Giappone
Twitter sues to block U.S. effort to unmask federal ranks against Trump
Twitter filed suit Thursday against the U.S. government, asking a court to back its refusal to hand over the identities of users claiming to be dissenting federal employees. The lawsuit revealed that the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection had sought the unmasking of the @ALT_USCIS ...
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USA Giappone Danimarca
Denmark snubbed Chinese offer to buy abandoned Greenland base over security concerns: sources
Denmark decided to turn down an offer last year from Chinese mining company General Nice Group to buy an abandoned naval base on Greenland due to security concerns, sources involved in the decision said. Danish politicians did not want to jeopardize their country’s relationship with the United States, Copenhagen’s main ...
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Cina Hong Kong
What the country can learn from the Pearl river delta
Ready for a technological Loop “THE PRD WAS always the first mover in China,” explains William Fung of Li & Fung. Hong Kong’s success, he reckons, owes much to its tendency to ignore Beijing’s diktats. And Shenzhen’s special economic zone did well because it operated as a freewheeling hub. By embracing ...
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Cina Hong Kong
What China can learn from the Pearl river delta
LIBERAL ECONOMICS MAY have gone out of fashion, but not before working miracles in some parts of the world. To witness one of them, visit the Luohu immigration-control point on Shenzhen’s border with Hong Kong, where some 80m crossings are made every year. Since Deng Xiaoping designated the mainland Chinese ...
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Cina
Shenzhen is a hothouse of innovation
ON A RECENT weekend several hundred academics and lawyers gathered in a hotel ballroom in Shenzhen for a discussion on “Innovation, inclusion and order”, an event jointly organised by the law schools at Peking, Oxford and Stanford universities. Legal conferences can be soporific, especially in China, and a scholar from ...
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Cina Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s tricky balancing act
ON THE OBSERVATION deck atop the Diwang building in Shenzhen you can see two large wax figures depicting Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher enjoying cups of tea. The two leaders negotiated the handover of Hong Kong to China, which eventually took place in 1997. At the time, Mrs Thatcher was ...
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Cina Hong Kong
A plan for Macau to team up with neighbouring Hengqin
CAN MACAU KICK its addiction to gambling? The former Portuguese colony’s economy is dominated by casinos. Officials now want to diversify its business model to include entertainment and family attractions, as Las Vegas has done. The snag is that Macau has about 30 square kilometres of land. But a solution ...
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Nuova Zelanda
Massive Helen Clark portrait found at Wellington dump
An enormous portrait of Helen Clark has wound up on Trade Me after it mysteriously appeared at the tip in Wellington.
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Nigeria
Customs Impounds N26bn Contraband Goods In Owerri
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU) zone C Owerri, has confiscated a number of banned and illegally imported goods with overall Duty Paid Value (DPV) of over N26 billion. The prohibited items include: 928 packets of tramadol and other medications detained on the Owerri/Port Harcourt road which ...
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Nigeria
Agricultural Products Broker As A Business Venture
Agriculture has gone beyond farming; it is now a business that accommodates lots of players, because of the need for food, raw materials for industrial growth and jobs for the growing population of our youths. Nigerian government is planning to create millions jobs in Nigeria through her economic diversification into ...