A staff member arranges the venue before a meeting during which representatives of the Hong Kong Federation of Fujian Associations express their support for the police force in Hong Kong, south C
Cars drive through Canadian customs, March 25, 2020. /Reuters New modelling data revealed by British Columbia (B.C.), Canada has indicated that most COVID-19 cases in the province are linked
Editor's note:Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Britain and
U.S. stocks ended mixed on Wednesday as Wall Street digested the Federal Reserve's latest statement on interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 282.31 points, or 1.04 percent, to 26,989
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before the House Financial Services Committee during the Monetary Policy and the State of the Economy hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C.,
Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during a past press conference. /VCG Photo The Federal Reserve says it will keep buying bonds to maintain low borrowing rates and su
U.S. consumer prices dropped in May for the third straight month as the coronavirus pandemic pushed the American economy into a recession.The Labor Department said Wedn
A protester is arrested by police on a street of lower Mahattan in New York, the United States, May 29, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn Col
03:02 After five months of hard work, China has contained the spread of COVID-19. Now the discussion has shifted to how the country can continue to reopen its economy, along with its b
Uber is launching its Uber Cash digital wallet feature in Sub-Saharan Africa through a partnership with San Francisco based — Nigerian founded — fintech firm Flutterwave.The arrangement will allow ri
06:08 Normally, people and firms can earn interest income from their bank deposits, but imagine if banks charged you for storing money with them?This is not fiction but indeed has been
A protester is arrested by police on a street of lower Mahattan in New York, the United States, May 29, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn Col
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is expected to revise down the growth forecast for the Asia and Pacific region in a revised update to its World Economic Outlook
The IBM Cloud is currently suffering a major outage, and with that, multiple services that are hosted on the platform are also down, including everybody’s favorite tech news aggregator, Techmeme
The TechCrunch crew has worked to keep tabs on this year’s startup accelerator classes. Conventional wisdom in startup land states that great companies are founded during more trying economic ti
U.S. President Donald Trump's star on Hollywood Boulevard was vandalized with black spray paint during weekend protests over the death of George Floyd, an African Amer
File photo of Britain's Prince Andrew. /Reuters The war of words between Prince Andrew and the U.S.Department of Justice has been reignitedMonday, on which Prince Andrew'slawyer team claimed t