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Hong Kong monthly retail sales post biggest growth in 13 years
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's retail sales posted the biggest percentage rise in 13 years in February as economic sentiment improved alongside a sharp rebound in visitor arrivals and low figures i...
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Trump charges follow criticism of Manhattan prosecutor for not acting sooner
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump has been indicted by a New York City grand jury, his lawyer said on Thursday, after the prosecutor who filed the charges came under political pressure fo...
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Italy data protection agency opens ChatGPT probe on privacy concerns
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's data protection agency said on Friday it had opened a probe into OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot over a suspected breach of data collection rules. The agency also accused ChatGPT of...
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Japan’s Toyota hands St Petersburg plant over to Russian state
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia and Toyota said on Friday that the Japanese carmaker's factory in St Petersburg had been handed over to state entity NAMI, with Moscow snapping up more assets from global auto...
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Sri Lanka’s key inflation rate eases to 50.3% in March
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's key inflation rate eased to 50.3% in March from 50.6% in February, the statistics department said on Friday. The Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI...
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India’s external debt rises to $613.1 billion as of end-Dec – Govt
(Reuters) - India's external debt rose 1.2% quarter-on-quarter to $613.1 billion as of end-December, the government said in a statement on Friday. The country's external debt-to-GDP ratio stood at the...
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Asia M&As drop to decade low as tumultuous backdrop deters dealmaking
By Kane Wu and Yantoultra Ngui HONG KONG (Reuters) - Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the Asia-Pacific region fell to a decade low in the first three months of this year as a tumultuous geopolitical ...
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Biden to announce federal funding for Mississippi tornado recovery on Friday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will announce on Friday that the federal government will cover for 30 days the full cost of Mississippi's emergency measures in response to last week's ...
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Markets in Q1: Moving fast and breaking things
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - From a red-hot January as China cast off COVID curbs to February's flop when interest rates surged and now a manic March of banking blow-ups - financial markets have h...
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Analysis-Alibaba overhaul leaves fate of prized cloud unit up in the air
By Josh Horwitz SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Alibaba's six-way breakup plan has raised questions about the long-term shape of its profitable cloud unit, given that it will have to tackle heavy regulatory scru...
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