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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) demanded more reforms and a stronger financial rescue fund to help the eurozone recover from its debt crisis. The call by the Paris-based group comes just days before a key European fin

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 27 November 2007 The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria reports nearly every family with children in Africa soon could have a bed net to protect against malaria. The Geneva-based Global Fund says it has delive

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China is mulling a diversified investment scheme for the massive pension fund with professional help to boost the value of the fund, a senior official said on Tuesday.Yin Weimin, China's human resources and social security minister, made the remarks

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Reporter: The Chinese government says the move will boost investment returns for pension funds. Vice Finance Minister Yu Weiping says pension funds across the entire country hit the 3.5 trillion yuan mark late last year. At the end of 2014, the accum

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HANGZHOU, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- Ant Financial, Alibaba's financial service affiliate, is set to buy a 1.2 billion yuan (about 188 million U.S. dollars) controlling stake in Cathay Insurance, the company said on Monday. The agreement, which will see Zh

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European finance ministers have failed to raise $261 billion to help contain the continent's governmental debt crisis. Finance chiefs from the 17 nations that use the euro agreed Monday to raise $195 billion from eurozone central banks to help the In

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