| | | | | | | | World | Commentary: Beijing's decision to give Xi Jinping unlimited tenure has accelerated China's move to a high-tech surveillance state – raising new dilemmas for Silicon Valley, writes former CIA analyst Kent Harrington. "For technology companies who have invested there, the question isn’t only how to respond to growing repression, or technology theft, or tighter censorship. It’s whether their bet a decade ago on a growing market in a then-seemingly reforming China can be sustained under an increasingly authoritarian and competitive regime." | | Two Reuters reporters appeared in a Myanmar court for the 11th time, which marked 100 days since they were arrested in December and accused of possessing secret government papers. Follow the latest updates on the two Reuters journalists in government custody. | | | Nice @Reuters story by @ArpanDanielVarg on the #digital revolution that is reshaping #India's $34 billion #gold market, with smartphones, e-wallets and flexible investment schemes drawing new buyers http://reut.rs/2DMQsR2 3:24 PM - mar 21, 2018 | | | | | | | | Business | Trump often tweets from his iPhone about pressuring China to address its $375 billion trade surplus with the United States. But a closer look at the Apple smartphone reveals how the headline figure is distorted. 5 Min Read | | The U.S. Interior Department will hold the largest lease sale in American history in the offshore Gulf of Mexico, in a major test of the oil industry’s appetite for federal acreage being offered by the Trump administration. 4 min read | | Goldman Sachs and the Wellcome Trust have jointly bid to buy the commercial property estate of Britain’s Network Rail, a spokeswoman for the Wellcome Trust said. 1 min read | | In January, GlaxoSmithKline’s new head of pharmaceuticals Luke Miels issued a blunt challenge to his managers: find budget savings of 20 percent. The plan was to pool the savings and reallocate the money to priority medicines and markets for Britain’s biggest drugmaker, according to people familiar with the meeting.
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