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House Republicans Pass $1.4tn Tax Overhaul Bill

House Republicans have passed a controversial overhaul of the US tax code that slashes corporate rates.

House Republicans have passed a controversial overhaul of the US tax code that slashes corporate rates. But is the Senate going to go for it? We ask Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President of the advocacy group American Action Forum.

Some of the world's biggest investors in Myanmar have been talking to the 大象传媒 about their interests in the country. Investments in Myanmar include a seven billion dollar sea port investment by China in Rakhine State - an area recently described by a UN official as a "textbook example" of ethnic cleansing. The 大象传媒's Faarea Masud reports.

Tesla Inc. is set to announce the launch of its first electric truck, with a range of almost 500 km. We get the lowdown from The Verge's Andrew Hawkins.

All this and more discussed with our guests throughout the show: David Dwyer, Bloomberg's director of global research, in New York. And Shalini Mahtani, Co-Founder and Chair, The Zubin Foundation, in Hong Kong.

(Photo: US President Donald Trump leaves the US Capitol after meeting with the House Republican Conference about tax reform. Credit: Getty Images).

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