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BEIJING: China’s trade surged by a fifth in the first two months of the year, official data showed on Tuesday (Mar 10), significantly outpacing forecasts despite a plunge in shipments to the United States.Official figures for the first two months of the year – usually combined to account for distortions arising from the varying Lunar New Year holiday – showed a strong start to 2026, before war broke out in the Middle East.Exports in the period climbed 21.8 per cent year-on-year, the General Administration of Customs said, beating the 7.2 per cent predicted in a Bloomberg survey of economists.Imports soared…
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POLICE INVESTIGATING, SAYS MACCIn a statement on Tuesday night, the MACC said the Royal Malaysia…
Sri Lanka’s criminal investigators arrested the country’s former intelligence chief on Wednesday (Feb 25) in…
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