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...Tongcheng Life, an online Chinese platform that facilitates group buying of fresh produce, has raised $200m in Series C funding....
...Domino's now expects significant non-cash non-underlying charges of c£20m relating to impairment charges for corporate stores and c£20-40m relating to impairment charges for the international businesses....
...In June, PLN finalised a plan to expand a large geothermal plant in East Java by 450MW, with development contracts going to South Korea’s Samsung C&T and Lotte E&C, and Indonesia’s Hutama Karya....
...new year c) Struggling along the main drag in Tokyo’s Ginza wondering if Sino-Japanese relations are really all that bad 3....
...At the start of the meeting, open to reporters, Mr Xi said he had personally ordered the construction of the monument in Harbin, adding: “It has become an important symbol of the ties between the peoples...
...(Financial Times) Merck & Co has agreed to buy Idenix Pharmaceuticals for $3.85bn in a deal aimed at bolstering its position in the hotly contested race to develop a new generation of hepatitis C treatments...
...As an example, he said, GE’s wind business had found more success since the formation of a joint venture with Harbin of China last year....
...“Our space products are becoming ever more popular in third-world countries,” said Jin Yongde, professor-emeritus at the School of Astronautics at Harbin Institute of Technology....
...Fashion weeks are curious affairs at the best of times but veer to the comical when most of the attendees are men trying their best to look chic while the mercury hovers somewhere between 35°C and 37°C....
...It was -20°C. In the rental area, an attendant, with a cigarette dangling from his mouth, sat on his haunches to help outfit a young skier....
...Now F&C Asset Management, a shareholder in Home Depot, wants to know what it got the company....
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