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Visitors, some wearing masks, walk through a park on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, in Beijing. China's case numbers in its latest infection surge are low compared with other major countries. But the ruling Communist Party is enforcing a "zero tolerance" strategy aimed at isolating every infected person. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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China tries to limit economic blow of Shanghai shutdown
By JOE MCDONALD - AP Business Writer
Tue,03/29/22-11:00PM , 182 Reads
BEIJING (AP) — As millions of people in Shanghai line up for coronavirus tests, authorities are promising tax refunds for shopkeepers in the closed-down metropolis and to keep the world's busiest port functioning to limit disruption to industry and trade.
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An employee of a bank walks by screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), left, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won at a foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 30, 2022. Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher on Wednesday as talks on ending Russia's war on Ukraine appeared to make progress. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

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Asian stocks rise as Ukraine peace talks appear to progress
By JOE MCDONALD - AP Business Writer
Tue,03/29/22-1:18AM , 171 Reads
BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher on Wednesday as talks on ending Russia's war on Ukraine appeared to make progress.

Shanghai, Hong Kong and Sydney advanced, while Tokyo declined. Oil prices advanced less than $1 per barrel.
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A man wearing a protective mask walks in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm Friday, March 25, 2022, in Tokyo. Asian stock markets fell Friday after Western governments promised new sanctions on Russia and President Vladimir Putin tried to prop up Moscow's sinking ruble by threatening to require Europe to use it to pay for gas exports. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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Asian stocks fall after West vows more Russia sanctions
By JOE MCDONALD - AP Business Writer
Thu,03/24/22-12:14AM , 414 Reads
BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets fell Friday after Western governments promised new sanctions on Russia and President Vladimir Putin tried to prop up Moscow's sinking ruble by threatening to require Europe to use it to pay for gas exports.
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In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, emergency personnel prepare to travel to the site of a plane crash near Wuzhou in southwestern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Monday, March 21, 2022. A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with more than 100 people on board crashed in the southern province of Guangxi on Monday, officials said. (CCTV via AP)

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China Eastern crash is rare disaster for state-run airlines
By JOE MCDONALD - AP Business Writer
Mon,03/21/22-11:10PM , 167 Reads
BEIJING (AP) — China is, along with North America and Europe, one of the world’s top three air travel markets. It has dramatically improved safety since a string of deadly crashes in the 1990s and 2000s.
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