Sylvia Chang
BBC News Chinese, Hong Kong
BBCNo-one would want to work without getting a salary, or even worse – having to pay to be there.
Yet paying companies so you can pretend to work for them has…
Category: 4. World
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China’s unemployed young adults who are pretending to have jobs
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Chip giants Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China revenue to US
Chip giants Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay the US government 15% of their semiconductor sales in China, the BBC has been told by a source close to the matter.
The agreement is part of a deal to secure export licences to the world’s second…
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Opposition pans Netanyahu as a ‘failed prime minister’ who ‘lies with brazen audacity’
The Knesset opposition slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following a pair of rare back-to-back press conferences on Sunday evening, accusing him of lying to the nation and placing his own political interests above those of the…
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Turkey earthquake flattens buildings in Balikesir province
Sergen Sezgin/Anadolu via Getty ImagesOne person has died in Turkey after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck the north-west province of Balikesir on Sunday evening.
An 81-year-old woman passed away shortly after she was pulled out from rubble in…
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Israeli airstrike kills 5 Al Jazeera journalists, claiming one worked for Hamas
Five Al Jazeera journalists were killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Sunday, the network said, with the Israel Defense Forces claiming one was a Hamas leader posing as a journalist.
The network said that Anas al-Sharif; another…
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Netanyahu defends Gaza City plan as UN warns of ‘calamity’ and starvation | Israel-Gaza war
Benjamin Netanyahu has defended his plan to take control of Gaza City in the face of widespread international outrage, even as senior UN officials warned that the move risked unleashing “another calamity” on a territory already experiencing…
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New India state voters’ list still has wrong photos and dead people
Hindustan Times via Getty ImagesThe new draft electoral rolls have 72.4 million names – 6.5 million fewer than before A few days ago, India’s Election Commission released updated draft electoral rolls for Bihar state, where key elections are…
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Footage from Syria shows killing of doctor in Sweida hospital
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Footage from security cameras at a hospital in the city of Sweida in southern Syria published Sunday showed what appears to be the killing of a medical worker by men in military…
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