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David South

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Designing human #development and health. Editor and writer of Southern #Innovator. Interested in making #digital human. https://teapawt.net/t.co/rrTAmUImfE

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Designed in China to Rival ‘Made in China’

Designed in China to Rival ‘Made in China’

By David South, Development Challenges, South-South Solutions SOUTH-SOUTH CASE STUDY Harnessing the power of design to improve products and the way they are manufactured is a critical com…

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For years ‘Made in China’ meant cheap t-shirts and plastic toys. Today it also means your electric SUV. A new wave of Chinese exports is rewriting what it means to be made in China. Textiles, furniture and cheap electronics are being joined by a new generation of high-tech, high-quality products once associated with Japan, Europe or the United States reut.rs/4A5sbSJ
Welcome to the new ‘Made in China’

Welcome to the new ‘Made in China’

How China went from selling clothes to cars

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🚨 BREAKING: EU countries have dropped the idea of offering Canada "associate member" status in the 27-member bloc, opting instead for softer language promising "ever closer association," according to a draft statement, seen by POLITICO. Full story: vist.ly/5qd4s
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Global South – David South Consulting

Global South – David South Consulting

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El Salvador rushes some 1,000 troops to Haiti after gang ambush, source says reut.rs/4ySoZsx
El Salvador rushes some 1,000 troops to Haiti after gang ambush, source says

El Salvador rushes some 1,000 troops to Haiti after gang ambush, source says

El Salvador has sent about 1,000 troops to Haiti after four Salvadoran members of a UN-backed security mission ​went missing in a gang ambush on the outskirts of the capital on October 18, a security...

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Defense tech startup Anduril Industries has joined forces with chipmaker Qualcomm to produce laptops that are designed and assembled in the US bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Anduril and Qualcomm Plan to Build Laptop With US Supply Chain

Anduril and Qualcomm Plan to Build Laptop With US Supply Chain

Defense tech startup Anduril Industries Inc. has joined forces with chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. to produce laptops that are designed and assembled in the US, an attempt to rebuild a manufacturing process...

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“Government issues debt at highest interest rate since financial crisis on eve of Budget.” apple.news/AHF-VphYNQnCRQr6S…
Government issues debt at highest interest rate since financial crisis on eve of Budget

Government issues debt at highest interest rate since financial crisis on eve of Budget

The Debt Management Office has been forced to sell nearly £5bn of five-year gilts at their highest interest rate since 2008, underscoring the fiscal challenge facing John Healey on the eve of his...

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We have new artificial intelligence guidelines on Stylebook Online, informed by the AP's own policies on what we do and don't do with AI. One tip: Any output from an AI tool should be treated as unvetted source material. You must apply your editorial judgment and sourcing standards when considering and editing any information for publication. For the full list of considerations, subscribe to AP Stylebook Online. store.stylebooks.com/apstyle…
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“Beans and water sell out as shoppers heed #resilience advice.” apple.news/AWlZyrS6MSYej9UI3…
Beans and water sell out as shoppers heed resilience advice

Beans and water sell out as shoppers heed resilience advice

Supplies of bottled water, soup and batteries run low across supermarkets after ministers urged households to build three-day emergency rations

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Uganda is tapping its nearly $7 billion in reserves to lessen the blow of a plunging shilling, which is the world’s second-worst-performing currency this month after Iraq’s dinar. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Plunging Shilling Forces Uganda to Tap Meager Reserves War Chest

Plunging Shilling Forces Uganda to Tap Meager Reserves War Chest

Plunging Shilling Forces Uganda to Tap Meagre Reserves War-Chest

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“London #flat #prices fall at fastest pace for 17 years.” msn.com/en-gb/news/news/cont…
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The internet is taking a detour around China. As tech giants reroute subsea cables to avoid geopolitical risks, they’re reshaping Asia’s digital map, writes @rpollard (via @opinion) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
The US-China Tech Cold War Is Moving Undersea

The US-China Tech Cold War Is Moving Undersea

When Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles described the seabed as a battlefield at a regional defense gathering in Singapore earlier this year, he was preaching to the converted. The security...

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'I cannot teach you integrity': How employee theft is hurting small businesses in Africa bbc.in/4i5Nj5d
That Girl Boina: How employee theft is hurting small businesses in Africa

That Girl Boina: How employee theft is hurting small businesses in Africa

That Girl Boina's post about why she had closed her beauty parlour struck a nerve with other small business owners.

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Bill Gates says the next 20 years will be "as tumultuous a period as there's been in human history." bit.ly/3UGwBjM
Bill Gates warns of 20 turbulent years before AI creates 'true abundance'

Bill Gates warns of 20 turbulent years before AI creates 'true abundance'

Bill Gates says AI will solve many of the world's problems, but the next 20 years will be "as tumultuous a period as there's been in human history."

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“#Student List wins Serbian #election in political earthquake as Vučić concedes defeat.” 🗳️ euronews.com/2026/10/25/vuci…
Student List wins Serbian election as Vučić concedes defeat

Student List wins Serbian election as Vučić concedes defeat

The election was seen as a referendum on Vučić’s political dominance and the political system that had been in place in Serbia for more than a decade.

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“#Cocaine-linked crimes on the rise in Britain as consumption surges.” apple.news/AJIDejxzmTJqP8WBB…
Cocaine-linked crimes on the rise in Britain as consumption surges

Cocaine-linked crimes on the rise in Britain as consumption surges

Exclusive: Wastewater analysis in England suggests people took roughly 2.5bn lines of drug in one year

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Money from the world’s increasingly prosperous technology entrepreneurs has been flooding into biomedical research. Is it changing how science is done? go.nature.com/3WmNwIz
How tech billionaires are disrupting biomedical science

How tech billionaires are disrupting biomedical science

Nature - Money from the world’s increasingly prosperous technology entrepreneurs has been flooding into biomedical research. Is it changing how science is done?

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The win would be the first Conservative Party majority in British Columbia in 98 years and swing Canada’s third most populous province to the political right bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
BC’s Left-Wing Leader Loses to Conservatives in Vote He Called

BC’s Left-Wing Leader Loses to Conservatives in Vote He Called

British Columbia is set to elect its first Conservative Party majority in 98 years, according to Canadian broadcasters, swinging Canada’s third most populous province to the political right.

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UK government sets out $800 million of AI security funding reut.rs/47WqxXD reut.rs/47WqxXD
UK government sets out $800 million of AI security funding

UK government sets out $800 million of AI security funding

Britain's government set out around £600 million ($800 million)of funding on Saturday largely geared towards defending against health and security threats ​from artificial intelligence.

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Pentagon designates Confucius Institutes in US a national security threat reut.rs/3Ua265G reut.rs/3Ua265G
Pentagon designates Confucius Institutes in US a national security threat

Pentagon designates Confucius Institutes in US a national security threat

The US Defense Department has designated ​Chinese-funded cultural centers on university campuses known ‌as Confucius Institutes as a threat to US national security, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth...

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