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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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'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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