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China Focus: China-Europe freight trains pick up steam amid pandemic

Sounding a long whistle, a train carrying 50 containers of goods including electronic devices and clothes as well as anti-virus supplies left Xiamen in eastern China for Hamburg, Germany. Initia

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Americans' COVID-19 perceptions changing as U.S. reports world's highest death toll

Wearing masks has long been regarded by Americans as unnecessary for healthy people. Yet, since just about half a month ago, it has become a common practice for grocery goers as well as on duty

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China vs. bad news: Toss negativity in the nearest trash can

People wearing protective face masks to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus walk across a street in Beijing, China, April 12, 2020. /AP Editor's note: Bobby Naderi is a journalist, guest

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Is Iran teetering on the brink of collapse?

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses the nation in a televised speech in Tehran, Iran, April 9, 2020. /AP Editor's note: Bobby Naderi is a journalist, guest contributor in print, radio and televis

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The U.S. is formalizing Team Telecom rules to restrict foreign ownership of internet and telecom assets

It has the simplest name but the sort of shadowy overtones that national security writers lust after.Team Telecom, a mostly informal working committee of the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security,

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Original Content podcast: ‘Star Trek: Picard’ launches with a bumpy, memorable season

Star Trek TV shows generally take a while to get good — but if any of them was going to have a strong start, you’d think it’d be “Star Trek: Picard.”After all, it returns Patri

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China's Commercial Press launches language-learning app

Screenshots of the Hanfen app, which is launched by the Commercial Press. /Hanfen App The Commercial Press, the first modern publishing organization in China, launched smartphone application "

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Substack offers $100K in grants for independent writers

Substack is taking several steps to support the writers and publications using its newsletter platform.After all, just as writers and newsrooms are starting to build real businesses on Substack, the C

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Feature: Chinese restaurants in Australia struggling to survive amid COVID-19 outbreak

It was lunchtime when He Wei closed and locked the doors of his restaurant at the center of Australian capital Canberra. "The restaurant has been open for seven years, and never have I thought befor

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Commentary: Timely help amid COVID-19 outbreak highlights China-LatAm community with shared future

A timely-held meeting at a critical moment for the region of Latin America and the Caribbean in the fight against the quickly-spreading novel coronavirus has won widespread praise and appreciation am

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My battle against coronavirus: free masks but few take in COVID-19 epicenter

When Hu Yunjian decided to give out masks in the streets of Milan, Italy, amid the fast spread of COVID-19, he was worried that 5,000 masks would fall short of the need. In reality, however, the 3

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Across China: Masked smiles in lens of Nepali photographer

Amar Shrestha takes photographs of an elerly doing exercises in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, on March 10, 2020. (Xinhua/Li Mengxin) Speaking Chinese with a Sichuan accent,

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Conan O’Brien will return to TV with shows shot on iPhone and over video chat

Apple’s promise of high-quality video “shot on iPhone” is getting another real-world stress test, as late-night TV host Conan O’Brien announced on Wednesday he will return to d

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Human rights: Is the U.S. leading by example?

Activists protest against Guantanamo Bay prison outside of the White House on May 17, 2013. /AFP Editor's note: Bobby Naderi is a journalist, guest contributor in print, radio and television,

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China clamps down further on dissent as it expels journalists from NYT, WSJ, and WaPo

As China continues to handle the fallout of the novel coronavirus that first originated in Wuhan in Hubei province in early-to-mid December, the Chinese Communist Party announced today that it would r

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Feature: Businesses in Africa feel impact as Chinese supplies disrupted by COVID-19 epidemic

Kenneth Kiarie, who runs an electrical goods shop in downtown Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya in East Africa, might have to close his store by the end of April unless he can secure more supplies

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Hashicorp soars above $5B valuation in new $175M venture round

The rise of the cloud over the past decade has forced software developers and DevOps engineers to completely rearchitect the modern web application, ensuring scalability, performance, and security. Th