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| - We will move the following business and economics stories: + China economy rebounds in Q2 after virus hit: AFP poll + Start-up city: Vietnam's young invest ideas in Ho Chi Minh + Coronavirus leaves Spain's interior a tourist desert + Struggling US small town prints own currency + Pandemic lifts US tech stocks into stratosphere China-economy-growth,ADVANCER BEIJING China returned to growth in the second quarter after the coronavirus pandemic handed the world's second largest economy its first contraction in decades, according to an AFP poll of analysts. 550 words by Beiyi Seow. Vietnam-politics-economy-technology,FOCUS HO CHI MINH CITY A tech-savvy population, a fast-growing economy, and the perks of being first in an emerging market -- Vietnamese entrepreneur Le Thanh saw the potential in booming Ho Chi Minh City for his start-up transforming coffee grounds into masks. 700 words by Tran Thi Minh Ha with Alice Philipson in Hong Kong. Picture. Video Health-virus-Spain-economy-tourism,FOCUS CORDOVA, Spain The Santos Bar, located across from Cordova's celebrated mosque, would normally be groaning with tourists tucking into its trademark Spanish tortillas. But with the coronavirus pandemic, "everything's dead", the owner says. 650 words by Alvaro Villalobos. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-economy-currency,FOCUS NEW YORK Tenino had become a ghost town, and small businesses were struggling to survive amid the coronavirus pandemic, so local officials revived an unconventional idea from the last century: printing the town's own currency on thin planks of wood. 650 words by Daniel Hoffman. Picture. Video US-computers-stocks-health-politics,FOCUS NEW YORK Tech stocks were going strong even before COVID-19, but behavioral shifts during the pandemic have lifted the sector further into the stratosphere, leaving the broader stock market far behind. 700 words by John Biers. Picture afp
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