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Streaming service Hooq shuts down, ends partnership with Disney’s Hotstar, Grab and others

Hooq, a five-year-old on-demand video streaming service that aimed to become “Netflix for Southeast Asia,” has shut down weeks after filing for liquidation and terminated its partnerships with Disney

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Japan to decide whether to extend state of emergency on May 6: NHK

A man stands in front of a closed Pachinko parlour, following the COVID-19 outbreak, in Tokyo, April 28, 2020. /Reuters Japan will formally decide on Monday whether to extend its nationwide st

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Building a post-pandemic world will not be easy

An entrepreneurial woman offers a mask to a passerby at a makeshift stand along Queens Boulevard in the Queens borough of New York City, the United States, April 29, 2020. /AP Editor's note: J

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Biden campaign announces committee to seek vice presidential candidate

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden speaks during the 11th Democratic candidates debate of the 2020 U.S. presidential campaign, held in CNN's Washington stu

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Here’s how Blue Origin’s human lander system will carry astronauts to the lunar surface

Blue Origin was among the companies selected by NASA to develop and build a human lander system for its Artemis missions, which include delivering the next man and first woman to the surface of the Mo

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SpaceX, Blue Origin and Dynetics will build human lunar landers for NASA’s next trip back to the Moon

NASA has selected the companies that will provide them with the human landing system for their Artemis Moon missions, including a lander vehicle which will carry astronauts from space to the lunar su

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Apple exec Cynthia Hogan joins Biden’s VP vetting team

Joe Biden’s campaign this morning announced that it has chosen a team to vet potential running mates for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. The four-person committee three high-pro

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Joe Biden under pressure to address sexual assault allegation

Joe Biden is accused of having sexually assaulted Tara Reade in 1993. /AFP His campaign has strongly denied it but pressure is mounting on Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential hopeful, to pe

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Commentary on the bills stripping China of its immunity in U.S. courts

Editor's note: Huo Zhengxin is a professor of law at the China University of Political Science and Law. The article reflects the author's opinions and not necessarily the views of CGTN.Amid the de

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Profile: The last female hunter hits target of shaking off poverty

Wearing sparkling earrings and high heels, 29-year-old Na Si is bottle feeding her one-year-old son. Few would connect the modern mom with a very primitive skill -- hunting. "I was able to hit a

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Staying safe in style: Budapest makes masks compulsory

02:45 It is now compulsory for people in Budapest to wear masks while out in certain public spaces as the Hungarian government prepares to gradually reopen the country's economy.And as

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The leadership failure that will cost us everything

Editor's note: Gernot Wagner teaches climate economics at New York University. He is the co-author, along with the late Martin Weitzman, of "Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Pl

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Pakistani woman killed in Indian firing on Kashmir LoC: Pakistan army

Pakistan army said on Monday that a woman was killed in Indian forces' firing along the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed Kashmir region. An army statement release

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Birx: Social distancing to last through summer in U.S.

The United States will need to continue social distancing through the summer, said the coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Speaking on the NBC Sunday news show“Meet the Press,”D

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Indian woman gang raped after quarantined alone in school: police

An Indian woman was allegedly gang raped in a school in the desert state of Rajasthan where she had been quarantined for a night by the police amid the nationwide coron

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Will Missouri sue Trump too?

Editor's note: Iram Khan is a Pakistan-based commentator on international affairs. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.The last time the United States

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U.S. COVID-19 cases top 900,000, research shows hidden outbreaks likely occurred "far earlier"

More than 900,000 people were infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as of Saturday in the United States, with the death toll exceeding 52,000, while a new study indicated that the virus wa