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Chinese Premier Li Qiang delivers a speech during the opening session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 5.

China unveils big plan to fix its ailing economy and transform into a high-tech power

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — China’s leaders have spent the past week unveiling their plan to steer the world’s second-largest economy through looming challenges by transforming the country into a technological powerhouse and ramping up spending to hit an ambitious growth target. The thousands of delegates who gathered in Beijing for the week-long

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The Washington Post is reinventing its newsroom as it struggles to retain subscribers

By Liam Reilly, CNN (CNN) — The Washington Post announced a major “reinvention” of its newsroom Monday, as the ailing Jeff Bezos-owned publication looks to grow its dwindling subscription numbers. Less than one week after its billionaire owner introduced a “significant shift” to the paper’s opinion section, Matt Murray, the Post’s executive editor, announced a

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China’s deflation problems get worse

By John Liu, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Consumer prices in China have plunged to their lowest level in more than a year, highlighting persistent deflationary pressures in the world’s second-largest economy. The Consumer Price Index (CPI), a benchmark for measuring inflation, fell by 0.7% in February from the previous year, China’s National Bureau of

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Mark Carney makes a "W" gesture to signify his win in the race to become leader of Canada's ruling Liberal Party.

Who is Mark Carney, the crisis-handling former central bank governor turned Canada’s next leader?

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Canada’s next leader is a relative political newcomer, coming instead from a decades-long career in finance where he steered governments through major global crises and periods of upheaval — experience he’s hoping to now leverage as he prepares to take over from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. It’s an unorthodox

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