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Chinese cluster now world's top innovation hotspot: UN
Chinese cluster now world's top innovation hotspot: UN
Economy
by  AFP

Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou has overtaken Tokyo-Yokohama to become the world's top cluster for innovation, the United Nations said Monday. The agency said Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou and Tokyo-Yokohama "make a massive contribution to global scientific publications and patenting outputs", together accounting for nearly one in five patent applications filed globally.

Malawi's fuel crisis hangs over upcoming elections
Malawi's fuel crisis hangs over upcoming elections
Economy
by  AFP

In early morning gloom, a long line of vehicles winds around the lone fuel station in Dedza district in central Malawi, one of many overnight queues for petrol across the country. The fuel queues are the clearest manifestation of this failure.

Uzbek workers fill gap as Bulgarian population shrinks
Uzbek workers fill gap as Bulgarian population shrinks
Economy
by  AFP

Nilfar Nazarova used to work as an accountant in her native Uzbekistan but for the past four summers she has been cleaning hotel rooms in the Bulgarian Black Sea resort of Albena. "The work is hard but the people are kind," Uzbek student Gulraykhan Muxanbetovna said as she bustled around the crowded restaurant of a four-star hotel overlooking the Black Sea.