Medical workers walk at a hospital in Daegu, South Korea, March 15, 2020. (Photo by Lee Sang-ho/Xinhua) Several countries have closed their borders as confirmed cases are increasing rapidly in the As
The prime minister in the Netherlands has offered reassurances amid the global coronavirus outbreak: telling citizens on Thursday there is no shortage of toilet paper.“
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang speaks at a press conference in Beijing, March 19, 2020. (Photo from Foreign Ministry website)"The Chinese side will be compel
Nucleic acid tests in a laboratory in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, February 13, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note:David Lee is a Beijing-based consultant and author mainly writing about e
VCG China will expand a pilot program on facilitating high-tech enterprises in more regions to borrow money from overseas in the latest effort to broaden financing channels for needy businesse
The Olympic flame is set to arrive in Japan from Greece even as the opening of the Tokyo Games in four months is in doubt with more voices calling for the event to be p
Michel Barnier, the European Union’s chief negotiator for the bloc’s future relationship with Britain after Brexit, has been infected with the new coronavirus.The 69-ye
With the Israeli government enacting a series of emergency measures to stem the spread of the new coronavirus, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing growing accus
Ada today took the wraps off its $44M Series B that it hopes will allow the company to expand its offering of the company’s AI-powered customer service chatbot.Accel lead the round with particip
A senior Beijing official on Thursday called freedom of the press in the United States "a hoax," citing "baseless" restrictions imposed on Chinese journalists working i
Suzhou in east China’s Jiangsu Province issued a plan Thursday to reward high-end talents with up to 400,000 yuan (about 57,000 U.S. dollars) for their contributions i
The fact that 28-year-old Gu Yue'e had never farmed a day in her life does not affect her performance at an intelligent agricultural garden. Bustling around between ro
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
Venture capitalists have raised record-breaking funds in recent years, but that doesn’t always mean the money is there for them when they want it. In extreme downturns, limited partners or LPs &
VCG The novel coronavirus outbreak that started in Wuhan in December 2019 has now grown into a global pandemic. Everywhere, the news is dominated by the term COVID-19. In China, it was only a
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an internal memo earlier this week that the company will give employees working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic a $1,000 cash bonus. But, as the Intercept
Testing for fever in Caracas on March 18, 2020. Federico Parra / AFP Leaders acrossLatin America are taking stepsto try and prevent the coronavirus pandemic from spreading.Venezuela'sPresident