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本期内容： China appointed a new chief securities regulator. Liu Shiyu, chairman of Agricultural Bank of China and former vice-governor of the central bank, replaced Xiao Gang, who was sackedapparently blamed for months of stockmarket turmoil. T
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本期内容： MarriottsdealtobuyStarwood,creatingtheworldslargesthotelchain,cleareditsfinalhurdle.ThegreenlightfromChinasantitrustauthoritiesfollowsapprovalinsome40othercountries,includingtheUnitedStates.Thecombinedcompanywillhavemorethan5,500hotel
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本期内容： Signaling at least a rhetorical rapport, Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed to cooperate to stabilize global oil markets. However, the worlds largest crude-oil producers failed to promise any production cuts. Khalid al-Falih, the Saudi en
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本期内容： Brazils senate opened the trial of Dilma Rousseff, the countrys suspended president, following her impeachment for allegedly cooking the books to hide the real state of the economy. If 54 senators vote against Ms Rousseff, interim pre
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本期内容： A multinational team of astronomers working at the European Southern Observatory in Chile discovered an Earth-sized planet in orbit around a star four light-years away. Proxima Centauri b is a bit bigger than Earth and orbits within i
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本期内容： The United Arab Emirates agreed to take in 15 inmates from Guantnamo Bay, reducing the number held at Americas c**troversial offshore prison to 61. Barack Obama wants to close the facility, which has housed almost 800 suspected terror
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本期内容： Solar Impulse, a solar-powered plane, completed the longest, transpacific leg of its round-the-world journey. The 72-metre-wide craft, powered by 17,000 photovoltaic cells on its wings and fuselage, has broken several solo- and long-f
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本期内容： Netflixs share price plunged by more than 10% after the video-streaming company forecast much lower subscriber growth for the second quarter than analysts had predicted. First-quarter earnings were better than expected ($28m, up by $4
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本期内容： Earthquakes wrought havoc in Ecuador, killing more than 200, and Japan, where at least 41 died and 11 were missing. Hundreds were injured in both countries. In Japan, 180,000 people are in temporary shelters and 300,000 homes are with
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本期内容： Shares in Allergan, a pharmaceutical firm with headquarters in Dublin, fell by 15% in response to suspicion that tax-avoidance legislation would scupper its planned $160 billion merger with Pfizer, an American drugmaker. The deal woul
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本期内容： Myanmars first freely chosen parliament in more than 50 years elected the countrys new president. Htin Kyaw is a writer, computer scientist and long-time confidante of Aung San Suu Kyi, the countrys famed democracy activist, who has p
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本期内容： Ryanair is entering the corporate-jet market. The Irish airline has customised a Boeing 737-700; the 60-seat aircraft will be available for hire by the hour. In recent years the budget carrier has softened its no-frills image: in 2014
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本期内容： A judge agreed to postpone a hearing in which the FBI was seeking to force Apple to help unlock an iPhone used by a dead terrorist. The American law-enforcement agency said an (unnamed) outside party had provided another way of extrac
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本期内容： A huge snowstorm hit the American east coast. At least 19 people died. Power supplies to 200,000 were cut and more than 11,000 flights were cancelled. The snowfall in New York, of 26.8 inches was the second-deepest in the citys histor
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本期内容： On Friday Dow Chemical and DuPont agreed to merge, continuing this year's run of big deals. The transaction is structured to give shareholders in the two American chemicals giants (worth around $60 billion each) equal shares in the co
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本期内容: Apples chief executive announced a $1 billion investment in Didi Chuxing, a ride-hailing service that has cornered 87% of the market in China. Tim Cook said Apples stake should teach it more about certain segments of the China market. A
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本期内容： FranoisHollandesaidtheTransatlanticTradeandInvestmentPartnershipwasabaddealforEurope.Leakeddocumentsshowmanyoutstandingdisagreements,onmattersincludingenvironmentalandconsumerprotection.Talksbeganin2013butbecameboggeddownamidrisingpub
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本期内容： BHS,aheavilyindebtedBritishretailchain,wasexpectedtogointoadministrationtoday,risking11,000jobs.Thecompanyspensionschemehasa￡571mdeficit,andmayneedtobebailedout.Pensionershavebeentoldtoexpectcuts.Criticssaythatthepreviousmanagements
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本期内容： The World Health Organisation said an experimental malaria vaccine will be tested on more than 750,000 children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi next year. The disease causes more than 400,000 deaths annually. How the vaccine is implemented
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本期内容： Emmanuel Macron topped the first round of the presidential election in France and will meet Marine Le Pen in a run-off on May 7th. Markets were buoyed by Mr Macrons performance: opinion polls put the former economy minister ahead of h
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