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Judge detains researcher from China with visa fraud

Bloomberg A Chinese researcher in US custody on charges of visa fraud was ordered detained until August 10, when she’ll have a fight on her hands if she asks to be released on bail. Juan Tang appeared before US Magistrate Judge Deborah Barnes in Sacramento, California. She took shelter at the Chinese consulate in San Francisco after federal agents interviewed ...

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Squeezed by superpowers, HSBC eyes next step of reboot

Bloomberg Caught in the crossfire between Washington and Beijing, HSBC Holdings Plc is fighting forces that threaten to upend a business built on connecting China to the West. Chairman Mark Tucker is overseeing a sweeping review of HSBC’s US and European operations with an eye towards unloading businesses beyond repair, as doubts grow that 35,000 job cuts announced in February ...

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Review clears AfDB’s chief of favouritism

Bloomberg An independent panel backed an African Development Bank (AfDB) probe that found no evidence of wrongdoing by its president, Akinwumi Adesina. The finding enables Adesina, 60, to seek re-election next month as head of the continent’s biggest multilateral lender for another five years. It’s also a rebuff to US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, whose rejection of the AfDB ethics ...

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