Pedestrians walk past an electronic stock board outside a securities firm in Tokyo, Japan, February 17, 2021. /CFP Asian shares firmed on Monday as some semblance of calm returned to bond mark
The world's major central banks adopted unprecedented monetary stimulus measures in 2020 in response to the impact of COVID-19. /CFP Editor's note: Guan Tao is the chief economist of BOC Inter
03:40 The year 2020 was remarkable for China's bond market, which played a vital role in supporting the recovery across many pandemic-stricken economies and attracted a record foreign
A scientific research center and university united with local authorities in Sanya City, Hainan Province five years ago to create a marine ranch in the area around Wuzh
Bibit, a robo-advisor app that wants to make investing more accessible in Indonesia, has raised $30 million from Sequoia Capital India. Returning investors East Ventures, EV Growth, AC Ventures and 50
Silicon Valley has a unicorn problem.While no one is calling for startups with high valuations to go extinct, there ought to be a lot fewer of them. At least that’s what many young founders have concl
The media center of the Group of Twenty (G20) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 19, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note:Hannan Hussain is a foreign affairs commentator and author. He is a Fulbright re
UK-based Fertifa has bagged a £1 million (~$1.3M) seed to plug into a fertility-focused workplace benefits platform. Passion Capital is investing in the round, along with some unnamed strategic angel
The harvest in the UK is finishing much later than usual because of damaged crop fields. /Kitty Logan/CGTN Europe A combine harvester paints broad lines through a field of barley as it gathers
One of the world's most ambitious environmental projects — the great green wall —covering the entire width of the African continent and built to combat land degradation, has completed nearly 20 pe
Palantir’s mysterious work and its founding origins with Trump ally and anti-press crusader Peter Thiel have inspired a number of controversies in recent years, none as divisive as its ongoing b
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris delivered an aggressive one-two attack on the character and performance of President Donald Trump on Wednesday, as they made their election
Photo taken on May 8, 2020 shows the building of U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C., the United States. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua)The number of hires decreas
ByteDance is not backing down from its ambitions to become a global technology powerhouse, even as TikTok loses its largest market India and faces insurmountable challenges in the US. But some in Ch
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) questions Attorney General William Barr who appears before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., July 28, 2020. /Reuters Rep. Louie Gohm
VCG Gold hit a record high Monday as investors rushed into the safe-haven on concerns about China-U.S. tensions, a spike in virus infections around the world and a lack of progress on a new st
The White House reluctantly dropped its bid to cut Social Security payroll taxes Thursday as Republicans unveil a $1 trillion COVID-19 rescue package, yielding to oppos