US President Donald Trump on Wednesday (Jun 3) accused China and Europe of deliberately weakening their currencies and stimulating their economies to gain competitive advantages over the United States. US President Donald Trump, picture here on the South Lawn of the White House last month, has accused China and the EU of currency manipulation. (AFP/MANDEL NGAN) Trump's latest Twitter outburst came as the Commerce Department reported that the US trade deficit surged to a five-month high in May, in part on record imports of automobiles - goods on which Trump has threatened to impose steep duties. The US Treasury, however, again reported in May that China was not manipulating its currency and departing European Central Bank Chief Mario Draghi last month rejected similar accusations from Trump, saying the ECB does not target the exchange rate. "China and Europe playing big currency manipulation game and pumping money into their system in order to compete with USA," Trump said on … [Read more...] about Trump accuses China, Europe of currency manipulation
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Viet Nam News by Hồ Anh Thái Not only did Hốt finally manage to buy a television, it was even a colour set. One evening his two brats went to visit their grandparents and his wife slunk off to meet her boss, the manager of the Bần Tộc government hotel. Hốt wondered why she was sneaking in and out of the house so often these days. The campaign against corruption was in full swing across the country. Maybe the two of them were covering something up. Left alone in the house, he turned on the television and grabbed a novel. He read inattentively, listening with half an ear to the TV. His eyes swept up from the book when a fashion show came onto the screen. The models appeared to be amateurs, their movements exaggerated and artificial, their arms flapping loose. They tripped clumsily over their own feet like puppets jerked by strings. The last model was a girl in a two-piece bathing suit. She threw a clumsily seductive look at the camera, turned to … [Read more...] about The Goat Meat Special