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China’s US$150 billion tax cut: Beijing claims headway in cutting business burden
China will cut the burden on business by at least 1 trillion yuan (US$150 billion) this year through its new value-added tax regime and fee cuts, Chinese Finance Minister Xiao Jie forecast on Monday. In…
China flexes military muscle with rare pictures of its latest stealth fighter jet which is said to be built based on US war plane plans ‘stolen by hackers’
China’s latest J-20 stealth fighter jets were confirmed to have been commissioned into military service recently, reported state-run Xinhua News Agency. Wu Qian, a spokesperson of the Ministry of National Defense said at a press…
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China Unicom, the world’s sixth-largest mobile network operator by number of subscribers, and e-commerce powerhouse Alibaba Group Holding plan to ramp up their collaboration in cloud computing services. The partial privatisation of Unicom’s parent ……
China Mobile Offers Deep Value, Says Daiwa
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China Unicom explains how it will leverage Alibaba and Tencent
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