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The investigation began after police in the city of Taizhou of Zhejiang started getting complaints from people who say they were losing hundreds of yuan a day through a Wechat group. Li Kangcheng, vice director of a local police station in the area,

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The United States, with the world's-largest economy, now has claimed the dubious distinction of having the industrialized world's highest corporate tax rate. Japan dropped its corporate tax rate slightly on Sunday, to just more than 38 percent. That

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