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Singaporean named to head intellectual property agency

by Associated Press
| March 5, 2020 12:05 AM

GENEVA (AP) — A Singaporean official defeated a candidate from China in a leadership contest for the U.N.'s intellectual property body, which was swept into a rift between Washington and Beijing over claims of Chinese theft of technological know-how.

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