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06-Nov-18 Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, acquired in 2016 by Alibaba, has decided to go into the red and invest over a period of time "to secure long-term sustainability and profitability". Advertising at Hong Kong newspapers declined 24 percent 2014-17. [image: SCMP]
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05-Nov-18 An escalating trade war between the US and China is causing companies caught in the crossfire to accelerate plans to shift portions of their supply chains out of the mainland, with Southeast Asia slated to benefit from the disruption. [image: AFP]
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02-Nov-18 The global medical trend continues to edge upwards in the larger medical markets such as Brazil, China, India, Mexico and the UAE. The largest increases will be seen in the Middle East and Africa where the trend increased to 9.9%. [image: Willis Towers Watson]
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01-Nov-18 The next 20 years of Internet development will centre on '2B', or services to businesses, shifting from a focus on consumers in the past two decades, according to Tencent Holdings executives at the company’s partners’ day in Nanjing, China. [image: Reuters]
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01-Nov-18 Rwanda has become the first African nation to join the Alibaba Group Holding-led electronic world trade platform (EWTP) initiative, following similar initiatives in Southeast Asia as the Chinese e-commerce firm seeks to expand digital trade globally. [image: Xinhua]
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