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NEW YORK The escalating coronavirus emergency sent the stock market Thursday into its worst slide since the Black Monday crash of 1987, extending a sell-off that has now wiped out most of Wall Street’s big gains since President Donald Trump took office.
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Read moreGlobal markets suffered record falls on Thursday as alarm over the coronavirus intensified, and governments from Ireland to Fiji unveiled new measures to try to slow the spread of a disease that has infected more than 127,000 people worldwide, Trend reports citing Reuters.
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Read moreChinese entrepreneurs in Laos' capital Vientiane are allegedly importing vehicles from China illegally for car rental and taxi businesses, much to the ire of their Lao competitors, RFA learned Friday.
The cars imported from China are mostly luxury vehicles and the businesses are meant …
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Read moreCoronavirus is highly unlikely to have a long-term impact oil oil prices, Spencer Welch, director of the oil markets and downstream team in the London-based IHS Markit told Trend.
"China will recover, people will start travelling again, and trade will go back to normal, …
Read moreWaste run-off and trash from Chinese-owned banana farms are polluting a river in Laos, affecting over 500 families in the country's Oudomxay province who rely on the river's water for daily use, local sources say.
The Chinese use a lot of chemicals in their …
Read moreTAIPEI, TAIWAN - Vietnam indicates in a recent defense white paper it will pursue stronger military ties abroad as China challenges its maritime sovereignty claims, and analysts expect that to mean more exercises with Western-leaning foreign powers and brisker purchases of foreign weapons.
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Read moreKUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - Officials from Thailand have held their first formal meeting in recent years with Muslim separatists from southern Thailand belonging to the Barisan Revolusi Nasional Melayu Patani, or BRN, the major rebel group operating in the area., officials said Tuesday.
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Read moreKUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - Officials from Thailand have held their first formal meeting in recent years with Muslim separatists from southern Thailand belonging to the Barisan Revolusi Nasional Melayu Patani, or BRN, the major rebel group operating in the area., officials said Tuesday.
Talks …
Read moreFord Vietnam has announced it is investing $82 million to increase production, which will speed up the transition to cars in a communist nation known more for the iconic motorbike.
The automaker will use the money to buy machines like internet-connected robots, add a …
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