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Booming real estate market highlights rich-poor divide in US

Though in the midst of pandemic, home purchases are soaring and fuelling more demands

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Canon Malaysia aims to expand through diversification

Company to grow its business-to-business and business-to-consumer segments

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Do China tech giants pose a risk for European banks?

Chinese companies are investing billions while European companies have trouble competing

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Pope Francis presses young Catholics for a new economy

Argentinian-born pope has regularly taken capitalism to task, accusing it of indifference to social inequality and depletion of planet’s resources

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Tesla factory workers exempt from California’s new virus curfew

Stay-at-home order, apart from essential activities, will take effect Saturday evening and remain in force through December 21

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Technology players most receptive to Budget 2021

Democratising Internet access will drive Malaysia's recovery and economic growth, says head of Ericsson Malaysia

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Pandemic no setback for Bangladesh’s soaring ship industry

Country’s gross domestic product grew by 8.2% last year and the hit from the coronavirus pandemic is expected to be less severe than in other developing economi...

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Cocoa prices soar as producers and processors clash

In New York, the price of a tonne of cocoa for delivery in December has jumped by more than 25% since last Friday to US$2,915

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Russia extends Western food imports embargo to end 2021 ​​​​​​​

Embargo was in response to EU sanctions introduced after Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula in  March 2014

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Britain, Canada rollover EU trade terms for Brexit deal

Department of International Trade says deal ‘locks in’ existing £20 bil trading relationship, sets stage for more talks

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Amazon France may wait out lockdown before 'Black Friday'

Smaller businesses say they will lose out to online giant if it is allowed to go ahead with annual event, while their doors remain closed

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Malaysia Airlines may seek US$500 mil from Khazanah: report

National carrier appealing to creditors for help with RM16 billion debt restructuring programme, reports The Edge

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G20 urged to plug US$4.5 bil gap for vaccine programme

Letter addressed to Saudi King Salman signed by Norwegian PM, S. African president, WHO chief and European Commission head