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Colombia street vendors struggle with social distancing

01:42 Working from home and paid-time off are 'social distancing' options for some office workers. But, street vendors need face-to-face contact, or they lose their daily incomes. In C

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Crowd-lending platform October hits pause on loan repayments

French startup October wants to reduce the pressure on small and medium companies going through the Coronavirus crisis. In order to give them some headroom, companies that have borrowed money on Octob

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Conservation efforts slowly reviving African black rhino population

Conservation efforts are slowly boosting the numbers of critically endangered African black rhinos, new data released on Thursday shows.The rhino population increased at an annual rate of 2.5 perc

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Art activities have not come to a standstill

Since the COVID-19 outbreak in China from January, the art world has come to a sudden halt. With major museums, fairs, and galleries canceling events and exhibitions al

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Online medical platforms attract more users during COVID-19 in China

Many in China have tried online medical platforms during the COVID-19 outbreak, and the providers of free remote consultation are hoping to further boost their business even after the pandemic is ove

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Instagram prototypes Snapchat-style disappearing text messages

Instagram is finally preparing to copy Snapchat’s most popular feature, and one of the few it hasn’t already cloned. Instagram has prototyped an unreleased ephemeral text messaging featur

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Nextdoor adds Help Maps and Groups to connect neighbors during the coronavirus outbreak

Neighborhood social networking app Nextdoor has introduced two new features, Help Maps and Groups, to give people a way to better support one another during the coronavirus outbreak. The Help Map offe

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Greece hands over Olympic Flame to Tokyo 2020 in event trimmed to basics

The modest handover ceremony took place at the marble Panathinaic Stadium of Athens, which hosted the first modern Olympics in 1896. The ceremony was closed to spectat

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China's Hubei sends over 1,600 migrant workers to Guangdong

With a high-speed railway train carrying 551 migrant workers departing central China's Hubei Province Thursday, the province hard-hit by the coronavirus are sending mo

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U.S. expat: China's procedures on combating COVID-19 do work

Editor's Note: This article is an edited version of Carl Johnson's answer to the question of "As someone who lives in China, how do you feel they are combating COVID-19?" on Quora on March 19, 202

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Trump is failing at defeating the 'invisible enemy'

Editor's note: Azhar Azam works in a private organization as a market and business analyst and writes about geopolitical issues and regional conflicts. The article reflects the author's opinions,

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Y Combinator-backed Kosh is a neobank for blue-collar workers in India

Dozens of startups have stepped up in India in recent quarters to improve banking experience for millions of users and businesses in the country. As a result, tens of thousands of people who could not

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COC: Coronavirus will not impact Team China's plans for Tokyo 2020

00:59 Despite the coronavirus pandemic forcing several Tokyo 2020 qualifiers to be canceled or postponed, the Chinese Olympic Committee (COC) said their preparations for the Summer Gam

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The rise of China-ASEAN trade amid trans-Pacific decoupling

Editor's note:Ji Xianbai, PhD, is a research fellow with the International Political Economy Program of S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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GM, Ford, and FCA shutter all North American factories over coronavirus fears

Detroit’s big three automakers are to shut down all factories due to fears over the coronavirus. Details are still in the works and will be announced shortly.Over the last few days, United Auto Worker

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Deliveroo riders say they can’t access promised hardship funds

Deliveroo says it is committed to providing financial support for riders during the coronavirus outbreak.

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Manage remote teams with a transparent culture

Many companies have been designed to optimize productivity when everybody is in the office. As offices close due to the coronavirus outbreak, many people are experimenting with remote work at scale fo