Category: Business
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Tesla criticised for opening showroom in Xinjiang despite human rights abuses
Show caption Council on American-Islamic Relations says no US company should be doing business in Xinjiang, China, after news emerged Elon Musk’s Tesla company was opening a showroom there. Photograph: Hannibal Hanschke/AP Xinjiang Tesla criticised for opening showroom in Xinjiang despite human rights abuses Elon Musk and Tesla must consider human rights in the Chinese…
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Colombia: At least 23 dead in clashes between armed rebel groups
Bogota, Colombia – Violent confrontations between Colombian rebel groups near the country’s border with Venezuela have left at least 23 people dead, Defence Minister Diego Molano told a news conference late on Monday. Fighting broke out over the weekend in Arauca as members of the National Liberation Army (ELN) fought with dissidents of the Revolutionary…
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The Last Soviet Generation
Those who came into adulthood as the USSR collapsed around them 30 years ago recall a time of transition. Every evening, Soviet army vehicles ploughed the white sand beaches at the shoreline of Soviet Lithuania, on the western border of the USSR. Locals knew not to go to the beach at night for leaving footprints…
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Chinese tech companies laying off people; unemployment increased in china
BEIJING: Tech companies in China are laying of people in mass numbers which has increased the unemployment in the country. Like many ambitious young Chinese, Mr Zhao Junfeng studied hard in college and graduate school so he could land a coveted job as a programmer at a big Chinese Internet company. After finishing graduate school…
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China’s New Year Ambitions for Latin America and the Caribbean
In this Dec. 3, 2018, photo, a Panama Canal guard stands at attention in front of a Chinese container ship docked at the Panama Canal’s Cocoli Locks in Panama City, during an official visit by China’s President Xi Jinping and first lady Peng Liyuan. For anyone wondering where China’s relationship with Latin America and the…
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China locks down 13 million people in Xi’an after detecting 127 Covid cases
Up to 13 million people have been placed into lockdown in the city of Xi’an in China, as authorities move to clamp down on the community spread of Covid-19 after 127 infections were found in a second round of mass testing. The snap lockdown on Thursday comes little over a month before Beijing is set…
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No friendly politician is too obscure for insecure China, not even Barry Gardiner
Show caption Labour MP Barry Gardiner took £420,000 from Christine Ching Kui Lee, who MI5 says has established links to Beijing. Photograph: UK Parliament/PA Opinion No friendly politician is too obscure for insecure China, not even Barry Gardiner Nick Cohen The Communist party is obsessive in its demand for respect, at home and abroad Sat…
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Sanction-hit Huawei says revenues down 29% this year
Show caption Huawei has pivoted into new business lines to cushion the blow of US sanctions. Photograph: Chukrut Budrul/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock Huawei Sanction-hit Huawei says revenues down 29% this year Effects of the US-China trade war felt by the telecom were ‘in line with our forecasts, says chairman Guo Ping Agence France-Presse Fri 31 Dec 2021…
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From stand-in stars to tech titans: The Observer’s faces to watch in 2022
Politics Toby Helm Liz Truss In the latter part of 2021, Liz Truss has been everywhere in the media. And as she sets her sights on reaching No 10 one day, we should expect to see and hear much more of her in 2022. Appointed by Boris Johnson as foreign secretary in September, Truss has…
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In our teens, we dreamed of making peace in the Middle East. Then my friend was shot
On 11 May 2021, I was sitting with a small group in a cafe in southern Tel Aviv, studying Arabic. Our teacher, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, had been telling us that he and his pregnant Jewish wife kept getting turned down by landlords who would not rent their property to a “mixed” couple. We…