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Beijing wants property developers to pay all their debts. Pictured is China's Evergrande Group's Health Valley development in Nanjing

Beijing says it’s time for companies to pay their overseas debts as Evergrande fears linger

By Laura He, CNN Business Beijing is making one thing clear to the country’s embattled property developers: Pay your debts. All of them. Two major economic and finance agencies on Tuesday called on companies in “key industries” to redeem the principal and interest on their overseas bonds, according to a government statement. Regulators from the

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Washington bars China Telecom from operating in the United States over national security concerns. Pictured is a China Telecom store in Shanghai

US government bans China Telecom from operating in the country

By Jill Disis, CNN Business Washington is barring a major Chinese state-owned telecommunications firm from operating in the United States over national security concerns — an action that threatens to once again increase tensions between the world’s two largest economies. The US Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday said it has ordered China Telecom to discontinue

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The Honda HR-V earned a "poor" rating in crash test.

Small SUVs struggle in new crash test

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Several small SUVs struggled in a new side crash test conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, with just one out of the 20 vehicles tested earning the agency’s highest rating. This year’s results included an updated side crash test that uses a heavier 4,180-pound barrier traveling at 37

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The Honda HR-V earned a "poor" rating in crash test.

Small SUVs struggle in new crash test

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Several small SUVs struggled in a new side crash test conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, with just one out of the 20 vehicles tested earning the agency’s highest rating. This year’s results included an updated side crash test that uses a heavier 4,180-pound barrier traveling at 37

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Facebook is having a tougher time managing vaccine misinformation than it is letting on, leaks suggest

By Donie O’Sullivan, Clare Duffy, Tara Subramaniam and Sarah Boxer, CNN Business In public, Facebook has touted the resources it has dedicated to tackling Covid-19 and vaccine misinformation, even scolding US President Joe Biden for his harsh criticism of the company’s handling of the issue. In doing so, it claimed that “more than 2 billion

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Calls for increased regulation of Facebook continue to grow louder after leaked internal documents became public and whistleblower Frances Haugen's testimony showed that the social media platform has repeatedly failed to rein hate speech and misinformation.

Former Zuckerberg adviser: Facebook’s problem is its business model

By Julia Chatterley Calls for increased regulation of Facebook continue to grow louder after leaked internal documents became public and whistleblower Frances Haugen’s testimony showed that the social media platform has repeatedly failed to rein hate speech and misinformation. On Friday, a consortium of 17 US news organizations began publishing stories — collectively called “The

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Calls for increased regulation of Facebook continue to grow louder after leaked internal documents became public and whistleblower Frances Haugen's testimony showed that the social media platform has repeatedly failed to rein hate speech and misinformation.

Former Zuckerberg adviser: Facebook’s problem is its business model

By Julia Chatterley Calls for increased regulation of Facebook continue to grow louder after leaked internal documents became public and whistleblower Frances Haugen’s testimony showed that the social media platform has repeatedly failed to rein hate speech and misinformation. On Friday, a consortium of 17 US news organizations began publishing stories — collectively called “The

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96% of Tyson's active workers are vaccinated. A worker walks past the Tyson Foods Inc. processing plant in Center

96% of Tyson’s active workers are vaccinated

By Alison Kosik, CNN Business Just days before a Covid-19 vaccine deadline for all Tyson Food employees in the United States, the company announced that 96% of its “active” employees have been vaccinated against the coronavirus. In August, Tyson mandated that all its 120,000 US workers get the vaccine by November 1. Tyson’s President and

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Jennifer Stout from Snapchat

TikTok, YouTube and Snap execs in Senate hot seat over social media’s impact on kids

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Executives from TikTok, Snap and YouTube were grilled by Senators on Tuesday about the steps their platforms are taking to protect their young users, weeks after a Facebook executive faced tough questions on the same issue. Democrats and Republicans in the Senate Commerce subcommittee on consumer protection raised concerns

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