The Tesla founder, Elon Musk, has shown of a section of underground tunnel beneath Los Angeles which he says is the first step in revolutionising travel. It would allow cars to travel at speeds of more than 200 kilometres an hour. But progress has been slow- as CGTN’s Phil Lavelle reports from LA.
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The U.S. Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate again.
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As ride-hailing service DiDi Chuxing successfully chases Uber off its home turf, the tech giant has chosen Mexico as its next battleground.
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The company plans to shut down the facility and four others in the United States as part of a restructuring.
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China’s economic reforms and opening up to foreign investment changed the world. 40 years on, it does business in every corner of the world, but relations with its most important trade partner are precarious.
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Disney is taking center stage in a debate over cultural copyright. A phrase from a blockbuster film is raising questions- over whether one can get the rights to profit from someone else’s culture.
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Faraday Future, the California-based Electric Vehicle Company that’s backed by Chinese investors, is in financial turmoil. CGTN’s Mark Niu has more.
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The U.S.-China trade war is taking a toll on U.S. farmers. Many are writing off their soybean crops because of a combination of bad weather, a lack of storage and a distressed market.
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Dubai has long been seen as a business hub in the Middle East. But there are signs that its economic recipe for success might be facing new challenges.
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Huawei CFO Meng Wangzhou has drawn strong support from Vancouver’s large Chinese community.
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U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton calls the spending spree by Beijing a wake-up call to Washington. Africa, he said is strategically important to the United States.
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China and the U.S. have reached consensus on some areas in their trade negotiations including agricultural products, energy and automobiles, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) said on Thursday.
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Inventor of the World-Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee and one of the ‘Fathers of the Internet’ Vint Cerf recently spoke at a conference in Silicon Valley about their vision of what the digital future should be.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has upped the ante on the Huawei case after suggesting he’d intervene to save talks aimed at resolving a trade war with China.
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On Wednesday, Tencent Music is due to go public on the New York Stock Exchange. It’s expected to be one of the biggest Chinese initial public offerings of 2018. Its listing comes after one of its early investors claimed the company threatened him into selling his equity stake.
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Cuba launched a 3G mobile network to meet a long-time local demand, though the people still consider prices too high for the average pockets.
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Qualcomm Inc on Monday said it had won a preliminary order from a Chinese court banning the importation and sale of several Apple Inc iPhone models in China that the court found violated two of Qualcomm’s patents.
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A key to boosting beef sales there may be found in U.S. laboratories where researchers are poring over a list of growth-promoting or other compounds that China does not allow in its beef products.
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Streetwear brands, like all retailers, want to make money but they’re careful not to turn off their customer base, which doesn’t like to appear mainstream. Wildly successful brand Supreme has managed to do both – stay relevant and make money – to the tune of a billion dollar valuation.
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Drones are expected to be huge sellers once again this holiday season. But some are asking questions now about whether the regulations surrounding their use are clear enough.
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A major sanitation scandal across some luxury hotels in China has caused a trust issue for the sector. CGTN’s Yang Chengxi reports on what hotels are doing to fix this stigma.
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The Trump administration met with U.S. tech leaders, including CEO’s from Microsoft, Google, and IBM, to discuss advancing “American leadership in innovation.” The stated goals are comparable to Beijing’s effort to dominate high-tech industries of the future “Made in China 2025.”
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Many countries have already been severely impacted by climate change. The U.S. Midwest has yet to fully experience the devastation climate change can cause. But weather patterns in the region appear to be changing.
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NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REX arrived at the space rock, to begin preparations for a first-ever sample collection and return from an asteroid.
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A spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Wednesday that the latest meeting between presidents of China and the United States on economic and trade issues was “very successful.”
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As Washington looks for ways to cut debit, family benefits programs are being scrutinized for possible cuts. But a study finds the federal government already spends a relatively low amount of money on children.
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Shares in some of the world’s biggest carmakers have enjoyed a bright start to the week. That’s after the U.S. and China agreed on a truce in a damaging trade war.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump held a “very successful” meeting here Saturday and agreed to continue to maintain close contact.
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Imagine losing part of your finger in an accident and trying to come to terms with it for the rest of your life. But what if there was a treatment that used your own body’s power of healing that could grow the finger back?
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Carmakers switch from vehicles to services and technologies at LA Auto Show.
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Rewind a couple decades, and Mexico was a top oil producing nation. But when Lopez Obrador takes office as Mexico’s new president, he inherits a state oil company, Pemex, in tatters.
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Kenya Airlines recently launched the first non-stop service from Nairobi to New York City, hoping to entice more North American tourists with the direct route.
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Using only algae, the sunlight, and a simple pump to push the air through it, the BioUrban purifier contributes the same amount of oxygen to the atmosphere as 400 trees.
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G20 leaders have begun arriving in Buenos Aires ahead of this week’s summit. Argentina hopes leaders will discuss and agree on key issues that affect the world economy and food security is one of them.
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The G20 summit will focus on development, infrastructure and food security, but the trade dispute between China and the U.S. is expected to get a lot of attention.
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State-owned companies play a key role in Brazil’s economy. But if president-elect Jair Bolsonaro follows through with his economic policies, this may change significantly over the next few years with a proposed privatization program
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Olive oil is a big export from California. But there may be less of it to export in the coming months as bad weather and other factors hit producers.
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Kitenge, Ankara, Dutch wax-print, African fashion vibrant and colorful, and it’s growing in popularity in the U.S.
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While holiday sales in the United States are expected to grow around five percent from last year thanks to low unemployment and rising wages, brick and mortar shopping has endured another year of strain.
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Brazilians have embraced the Black Friday concept. Even though it falls on a weekday, the shopping frenzy has taken over the country with analysts forecasting a much bigger event than last year.
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Four years ago, a car traveling on Colorado Highway 285 slid off the road and down a steep embankment. The driver was trapped inside the vehicle in below freezing temperatures, without food and water, for six days. The driver survived, but the accident prompted the Colorado Department of Transportation to green light this test project, which it claims is the first in the world.
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In the business world, there are few sure bets, but winemaking may be close.
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At the brand new Amazon customer fulfillment center in Thornton, Colorado, applicants walk into the recruiting office and, often as not, walk out with a job.
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New York and Northern Virginia won the competition to host Amazon’s new joint headquarters, with another subsidiary site in Tennessee. But are the losers breathing a sigh of relief?
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Food Bank of the Rockies is a busy place. The nonprofit’s mission is ensuring that families in the states of Colorado and Wyoming have enough to eat. It hands out 145,000 meals a day and more than 27 million kilos of food each year. The need is clearly there.
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Demand for the distinct art form has been growing, mainly in the U.S., thanks in large part to the rise of mobile technology.
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CGTN’s Stephen Gibbs speaks with Brazil’s VP-elect Hamilton Mourao.
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Last month, the International Monetary Fund reported that Venezuela’s inflation rate will reach ten million percent next year. And with prices rising at an alarming rate, more and more businesses are forced to close their doors.
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An annual international conference of high performance computing, SC18, took place November 11-15 2018 in Dallas, Texas. The conference drew over 13,000 attendees, a record for the event, and featured a technical program spanning six days.
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CGTN’s Michelle Begue visits the Museum of Gold in Bogota, Colombia.
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