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...HH Liu, a construction supervisor at a contractor in the Taipei area, told Nikkei that the worker shortage had intensified since the final quarter of 2020 and worsened further ahead of the holiday....
...Trump suggested the state diner for Xi be replaced with Big Macs. Wisconsin governor Scott Walker went further, and called for Xi’s visit to be cancelled altogether....
...Bo was sentenced to two years and three months’ jail after pleading guilty to three counts of insider trading last year....
...The government is keen to expand export volumes from 400,000 barrels a day by the end December to 1m bo/d by the end of next year....
...In the past decade, many manufacturers have shifted component production to multiple contractors, often in low-wage Asian nations....
...Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage finance company, said it would need another $1.8bn in aid from taxpayers, bringing its total request for government money to more than $64bn....
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