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Creating a new diamond used to be a process spanning millions or even billions of years. Now, it takes about a week.
Inside specialised factories, hulking 50-tonne machines simulate the crushing pressure and extreme temperatures inside the Earth’s crust, transforming seed crystals into flawless, glittering stones in just a few days.
Zhongjing Diamond, a company based in China’s central province of Hubei, has nearly 300 of the machines humming around the clock, which together mint some 600,000…

Boeing has appointed a former White House adviser with China experience to head its business in the country as stiff headwinds test the American aircraft giant in its second-biggest market after the US.
Boeing announced on its website on Thursday that Landon Loomis would work as the company’s China president.
Boeing senior vice-president Brendan Nelson said in the statement that Loomis’ government experience and previous time in China would “continue to strengthen our long-standing partnership…

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Moody’s has revised France’s credit rating outlook to ‘negative’, citing the risks posed by political “fragmentation”
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The COLA represented an increase critics called inadequate to keep up with soaring costs of food, housing and health care.

Deep Robotics, a Hangzhou-based start-up, is facing a severe talent shortage, hindering its efforts to commercialise the results of its research and development, according to its chief technology officer (CTO).
Li Chao, who is also a co-founder of the robot maker, said at the Bund Summit Financial Forum in Shanghai on Friday that highly skilled professionals were very much needed to help Deep Robotics take its business forward.
He added that top talent in the algorithm area was in strong demand,…