Editor's note: Siddharth Chatterjee is the United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator in China. Smriti Aryal is the Head of Office, UN Women in China. This article is written on behalf of the UN Cou
SoFi, more formally known as Social Finance, announced today that it has agreed to acquire Golden Pacific Bancorp (GPB) for about $22.3 million.The dollar amount is not staggering. What is more notabl
The Georgia district attorney investigating former President Donald Trump's actions surrounding the state's presidential election has hired a lawyer with expertise in r
China's national flags are seen fluttering on Tian'anmen Square and atop the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China. /Xinhua Editor's note:Andrew Korybko is a Moscow-based Ameri
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Saturday, in a bid to push forward peace talks with the Taliban, that his government was ready to discuss holding fresh elections,
A statue of Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans occupies the center of Lafayette Square on the north side of the White House in Washington, DC, January 20, 2018. /Getty Editor's note:
Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission. /Xinhua Chinese President Xi Jinping on
Eco, which has built out a digital global cryptocurrency platform, announced Friday that it has raised $26 million in a funding round led by a16z Crypto.Founded in 2018, the SF-based startup’s platfo
03:03 China's 13th National People's Congress (NPC) held its fourth annual session in Beijing. Deputies at the session will deliberate on draft legal amendments of two
For founder Najette Fellache, coming to the Bay Area a few years ago from Nantes, France was a way to grow a company she’d founded and which was already beginning to count major U.S. corporation
The Duchess of Sussex has demanded that the Mail on Sunday publish a front-page apology and pay up £750,000 of down-payment towards her legal costs, after her “comprehe
While we’ve written about attempts to build alternatives to cookies that track users across websites, Google says it won’t be going down that route.The search giant had already announced t
Almost by default, open-source developers get very little insight into who uses their projects. In part, that’s the beauty of open source, but for developers who want to monetize their projects,
Robotic process automation has taken the enterprise world by storm, by providing a set of tools for those doing repetitive, volume-based tasks to use software to remove some of that labor to let those
The pandemic has forced organizations across the globe to shutter the office environment, and take up a remote-first strategy. Through necessity, professionals have adapted to remote working. But the
There's not enough cooperation between China and the United States when it comes to stopping the coronavirus pandemic, wrote two Brookings Institution experts in China-US Focus, a website by the C
The headmaster and students of a German high school have written letters in reply to Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, expressing their commitment to increasing cultural exchanges
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