Category: News
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Treasury secretary to Congress: US could hit debt limit in mid-January
Janet Yellen says her agency will need to employ accounting maneuvers intended to prevent nation from breaching debt ceiling as early as January 14
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Brazil views labor violations at BYD site as human ‘trafficking’
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — Authorities in Brazil said Friday they are probing Chinese auto giant BYD and one of its contractors for suspected “trafficking” of Chinese workers building a factory in the South American country. Federal prosecutors in Brazil are weighing possible criminal action after labor inspectors found 163 Chinese workers “in slave-like conditions” at…
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World Bank raises China’s GDP forecast for 2024, 2025
World’s second-biggest economy has struggled this year
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China, Japan foreign ministers meet and agree on visit, security dialogue
The one-day visit is Takeshi Iwaya’s first to Chinese capital since becoming Japan’s foreign minister in October, to discuss thorny issues with his country’s largest trading partner
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Big banks, business groups sue US Federal Reserve over annual ‘stress tests’
In bold move challenging regulators’ powers, plaintiffs allege US central bank’s ‘stress tests’ of Wall Street firms violate the law
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Water & Ice
VOA Connect Episode 330 – Enhancing water safety and addressing glacier melt’s impact on rising sea levels.
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Revolutionizing Wheels
VOA Connect Episode 325 – The resurgence of lowrider cars and the cutting-edge manufacturing techniques transforming the automotive industry.