TCL unit, App Annie joining hands for bigger global reach

App Annie, a leading mobile data and analytics service provider, said on Friday that it has teamed up with Shenzhen Hawk Internet Co Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TCL Corp, to help the latter expand its presence in overseas markets, especially in countries and regions participating in the Belt and Road Initiative.

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ABP molds old UK port into office hub

Chinese developer ABP held a "topping out" ceremony in East London on Thursday to mark the completion of the first buildings in the company's 1.7-billion-pound ($2.2 billion) Asian Business Park, which aims to act as a gateway to the United Kingdom for Chinese businesses.

Hangzhou turns magnet for unicorns

The growing number of unicorn companies in Hangzhou is boosting the development of the country's new economy, according to Wu Aiqi, a professor at the School of Management of Zhejiang University.

Greater Bay Area to boost integration and opening-up

The building of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, or the 4.0 version of the cooperation among the three regions, marks their deeper integration and a new stage in the country's opening-up.

Who trades with whom not up to US to decide

Since its inception in 1994, the Summit of the Americas has been a venue for the United States and Latin American nations to sort out intra-America concerns, most noticeably US-Latin America trade.

Hasty response will aggravate Syria crisis

The shadow of war that has fallen over Syria is darkening with US President Donald Trump raising his pitch with each passing day and threatening "missiles will be coming" in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack on Saturday.

No tariffs on imported cancer drugs good for patients and pharma firms

PREMIER LI KEQIANG stressed that China will lower tariffs on imported cancer drugs to zero during a visit to a foreign pharmaceutical company in Shanghai on Tuesday. Beijing News comments:

Imperative to crack down on pyramid scams

THE STATE ADMINISTRATION FOR MARKET REGULATION recently announced that it had drawn up a list of 11 key cities that should take action against pyramid selling, and it will monitor their performance in this regard in 2018. Thepaper.cn comments:

Graduate grab by hospitals reflects shortage of talent

TALENT RECRUITMENT competition in the medical field is conducive to not only the performance of hospitals, but also the entire society. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

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A new era of all together, nobody first

The Boao Forum for Asia, held every spring in South China's Hainan province, has become known to many as "the Davos of the East". However, as an annual economic conclave, the Boao Forum represents a set of ideas very different from those economic forums where Western business and political interests dominate and set the rules for globalization that is synonymous with Americanization, or promote a set of ideas associated with the "Washington Consensus", which Europe has felt obliged to buy into as a matter of long-held North Atlantic interests.