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...When news of Covid-19 first emerged from Wuhan, Li mobilised his connections on both sides of the Pacific....
...Today India does more joint military exercises with the US than with any other country....
...In 16th-century Italy, life and death were intertwined thanks to all-pervading Christianity....
...The strategy of “build now, fill later”, which has been typical of the country’s rapid economic growth in the last century, does not work for cultural institutions....
...That mistrust has been ameliorated by institutional checks and balances together with international co-operation and shared sovereignty....
...Russia, by the 19th century, stretched to the Pacific and down to the Caucasus and Central Asia but was sparsely populated, a problem then and now....
...Of the 56 new metro systems that opened worldwide between 2010 and 2020, 44 were in the Asia-Pacific region, according to the International Association of Public Transport, and just one was in Europe....
...In 2018, the company was valued at $1.2bn with 6,000 employees. A third of its revenues came from India, the rest from its international education and other businesses....
...While medicine is exempt from international sanctions, banking restrictions have complicated imports in the past....
...Mr Tedros reported then a total of 43,101 Covid-19 cases and 1,018 deaths — only one fatality outside China....
...The shares of Rongsheng are up 101 per cent year to date. Thomas Hale in Hong Kong 39....
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...In contrast, Trump rarely wants international collaboration, but the practice is now embedded in space programmes, thanks to the International Space Station....
...Hotstar, the market leader, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox, has 1.6m....
...These documents revealed that GAR Holding Ltd was incorporated on 1 February 2017....
...So does the failure to strike a deal signal froth dissipating? The Excelsior is the luxury hotel group’s only four-star property....
...So does Japan Inc still deserve its reputation for hoarding? Perhaps, but the balance has shifted....
...When does the alternative become mainstream?...
...It was for centuries, until Chinese emperors sought to prohibit Chinese junks from sailing the open seas, a stopping point for Chinese ships trading with Arabia....
...Lombard does not blame Tony Durrant, though. He has good cause for a thesaurus after enduring a somewhat prosaic time....
...The populism of blaming all problems on migrants does not work as it does in Britain and other countries. But the role of immigration in Japan’s future is vigorously debated....
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...Almost a century later the prize remains unclaimed....
...England were now 2-1 up with one to go at the Oval. South London has always been a good hunting ground for Pakistan....
...In 2010, under a special Reserve Bank of India scheme, Kingfisher’s estimated $1.5bn in debts were restructured....
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