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As trade war with U.S. grinds on, Chinese tourists stay away
The number of Chinese tourists is falling. And that's especially painful to businesses they favor, because they tend to spend more than other visitors
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An EV switchover deadline is not courageous but foolhardy: Rajiv Bajaj
The managing director of Bajaj Auto has taken a hard stance against the government's proposal of making all three-wheelers go electric by 2023, and two-wheelers below 150 cc by 2025, saying it is unrealistic considering a large portion of the country is still without electricity
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Tesla, facing setbacks and skeptics, tries to get back on course
Tesla says it has made design and manufacturing improvements in recent months to significantly address quality concerns, but the company and its chief executive, Elon Musk, are contending with some more fundamental blemishes
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Deutsche Bank acknowledges lapse in checks on money laundering
Deutsche Bank has repeatedly come under fire for not doing enough to avoid being a conduit for dirty money and has had a series of embarrassing disclosures about sloppy screening procedures
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Snapshot: The life and times of Girish Karnad
The veteran actor and playwright passed away on Monday from a prolonged illness, leaving an illustrious literary legacy
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The making of a YouTube radical
Caleb Cain was a college dropout looking for direction. He turned to YouTube, where he was pulled into a world filled with conspiracy theories, misogyny and racism
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Google made $4.7 billion from the news industry in 2018, study says
Google and Facebook's role as middlemen allows them to take a huge proportion of online ad revenue away from news outlets, who are losing a crucial source of income
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If seeing the world helps ruin it, should we stay home?
To people who like to travel, these are morally bewildering times. The number of airline passengers worldwide has more than doubled since 2003, and unlike with some other pollution sources, there's not a ton that can be done right now to make flying significantly greener
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How nuclear bomb tests are helping to identify art forgeries
Using radiocarbon dating, scientists can uncover counterfeit artworks using smaller than ever samples of canvas and paint
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Ten interesting things we read this week
This week we have a liberal (sic!) breadth of views, news, analyses and even pure facts — Management Psychology (Breaking the 4-minute barrier), Communication (How to disagree with your boss), Gender equality (Men afraid of mentoring women), Economy (Future shock in India), AI (Robots that can change the world), Fiction (Review of Fall, or How the flesh still matters in Internet utopia), Business (Why packaged goods fend off tech disruption), and Movies (Article 15 is part of the caste problem it attempts to portray).
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Why Fiat Chrysler's talks with Renault fell apart
The auto companies ran headlong this week into a familiar problem in France: the government itself