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Housing minister pledges to empower local governments to buy unsold inventory and shift towards selling only finished homes with a ‘what you see is what you get’ model.
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Chinese state-owned and commercial developers are racing to catch up on a decade of the technology’s deployment.
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Huge drone barrage ‘strikes Ukraine before Christmas’, killing 3
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