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APD | Weekly top 10 hot news ( February 8 - February 14 )

Every weekend, Asia Pacific Daily will provide you with a run-down of the latest hot news.This week, the following hot news you should know:Top 1 | U.S. grants Huawei 4

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Africa needs population development, rather than population control

Nairobi, Kenya / VCG Photo Editor's note:Stephen Ndegwa is a communication specialist, writer and analyst on China-Africa affairs.The article reflects the author's views, and not necessarily t

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UEFA bans Man City for next two seasons, defiant City to appeal to CAS

Manchester City win the Premier League champions with a 4-1 victory over Brighton in UK, May 12, 2019. /VCG Photo English Premier League champions Manchester City on Friday have been banned fr

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Spokesperson urges U.S. politicians to stop smearing China

A Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Friday refuted U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's allegations of "Chinese infiltration in the U.S.", noting that the remarks were awash with Cold-War mentality a

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Two years after Florida high school massacre

01:35 It's been two years since a deadly mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida.Residents held a moment of silence on Friday to honor the lives lost at Marjory Stoneman Do

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With EU greenlight, Huawei 5G products to be made in Europe

Globally, Huawei is a leading 5G technology vendor, enjoying an edge over Sweden's Ericsson and Finland's Nokia in offering high-tech, low-cost gears to telecommunications operators such as Vodafone.

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Mixed prospect as lessons go online amid the coronavirus outbreak

VCG Photo After February 8, the Lantern Festival, it is supposed to be the beginning of a new semester for schools across China, but this year students are still on an extended winter vacation

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Thousands of Cameroonians flee to Nigeria as violence flares

A still image taken from a video shot on December 9, 2017 shows Cameroonian refugees standing outside a center in Agbokim Waterfalls village, which borders on Cameroon, Nigeria. REUTERS/via Reute

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Syrians scramble for refuge in last opposition frontier

Throughout Syria’s civil war, Maad al-Khalaf helped other Syrians find shelter in the opposition enclave in the northwest as they fled government military advances arou

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South Korean court reduces jail sentence of former president's confidante to 18 years

The Seoul High Court in South Korea on Friday sentenced Choi Soon-sil, a longtime friend of jailed former president Park Geun-hye, to 18 years in prison in a retrial of

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Venezuelan president says arrest of Juan Guaidó "will come"

President Nicolás Maduro said Friday that Venezuelan authorities haven't detained opposition leader Juan Guaidó because the courts haven’t ordered it, but he warned: “I

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Trump contradicts his own denial and admits he sent Giuliani to Ukraine to dig dirt on political opponents

Emboldened after his impeachment acquittal, President Donald Trump now openly admits to sending his attorney Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine to find damaging information about

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Vodafone Idea shares tumble 23% after India orders it to pay billions in dues

Shares of Vodafone Idea fell by more than 23% on Friday after India’s apex court ordered the country’s second-largest telecom operator and Airtel, the third-largest telecom network, to arrange and pa

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Married co-founders are a startup’s secret weapon

“If I was running Clearbanc by myself, it probably would have gone off the cliff eight times at this point,” says Clearbanc co-founder Andrew D’Souza. “If I were running the company by myself, i

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This co-op wants to put money back into patients’ hands

Too often, people are asked to give away their insights and time for free. Jen Horonjeff, founder and CEO of healthcare startup Savvy, knows this first hand and is trying to change that by applying a

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Bloomberg memes push Instagram to require sponsorship disclosure

Instagram is changing its advertising rules to require political campaigns’ sponsored posts from influencers to use its Branded Content Ads tool that adds a disclosure label of “Paid Part

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Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries.Last November, we surveyed 13 of