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In a brief statement to the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the telecom giant said its preliminary net profits for the first half of 2017 reached 780 million yuan (about 117.1 million U.S. dollars), up 74.3 percent year on year.


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DOHA, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Ahmed bin Mohamed Military College has ended the "Decisive Decision 13" joint exercise with the British armed forces, Qatar news agency (QNA) reported Sunday.


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According to QNA report, the Department of Moral Guidance of the Ministry of Defence said that the three-week exercise focused on training the officers in three stages: combat in built-up areas, defence and training with live ammunition and movement on the battlefield.


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TOKYO， April 25 (Xinhua) -- The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee decided on a new official emblem on Monday， seven months after an initial design was scrapped due to plagiarism accusations.


The new emblem， a checkered pattern in "the traditional Japanese color of indigo blue"， was designed by 46-year-old Tokyo-based artist Asao Tokolo.


It was chosen from a shortlist of four after some 14，599 entries were submitted in a contest open to the public.


Yoshiro Mori， chief of the organizing committee， said the committee had met 15 times since last September to decide on the new emblem.


The previous logo by Japanese artist Kenjiro Sano was scrapped last September over plagiarism accusations due to its similarity to the logo of a theater in Belgium.

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