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Bizarre award encourages curiosity-led scientific research

Gorillas with extraordinary mathematical and art skills, electronic dance music that reduces the appetite of mosquitoes, and the dialects of birds ... Ten different biz

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APD | Weekly top 10 hot news (Aug. 14 - Aug. 20)

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 | Huawei CFO's extradi

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Democrats look to state courts as redistricting battle heats up

Democrats are expected to lean heavily on state Supreme Courts in the upcoming fight over redistricting after key pathways to fighting maps gerrymandered by Republicans

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Nasir Qadree just announced one the largest debut funds for a solo VC

Nasir Qadree entered the world of venture capital six years ago, beginning with a role at Village Capital in Washington, then as an associate director of social investments at ATT.Qadree encountered e

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Present at the Republican self-destruction

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell faces reporters with fellow Senate Republicans following their weekly policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 7, 2020. /Reuters Ed

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Will galloping digitalization widen tech divide, inequality?

Much has been said about the coronavirus pandemic hastening the expansion of the digital economy worldwide, but this development masks the yawning technology gap that exists. For example, the inte

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Post-Brexit UK to reshape its foreign policy

The government is to set out its post-Brexit foreign policy, promising to reshape an "outdated international system" into one that better protects the UK's interests an

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Investor Alexa von Tobel on the biggest driver of social-media-fueled stock trading

Alexa von Tobel has always felt strongly that too many people are shut out of the stock market. She felt this as a 23-year-old who didn’t have $5,000 to open a brokerage account. She felt it whi

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UK promises to cut emissions by more than two thirds by 2030

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the UK is "taking the lead with an ambitious new target to reduce our emissions".

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Sliding dollar steadies as virus worries persist

/CFP The dollar nursed losses on Thursday following five sessions of decline, as investors' longer-term optimism about COVID-19 vaccines ran into worries about rising infections and risks to t

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TikTok rumors beg the question: Did Trump solve anything?

Over the past 24 hours, rumors picked up by Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and CNBC have put some boundaries on what a possible deal between Oracle and TikTok’s parent company ByteDance will look

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Veteran VC Kittu Kolluri has $216 million more to invest through his new firm, Neotribe

Kittu Kolluri — who in late 2016 stepped down as a general partner with NEA after 11-years with the investing giant to form the much smaller, much earlier-stage outfit Neotribe — has close

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Commentary: A dark dungeon under "shining city upon a hill"

When America's founding fathers decided to take up arms against their British lords and seek independence, their ideal was to build a whole new nation free from oppression and persecution. After so m

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Luxury food industry turns sour amid global coronavirus lockdowns

Global demand for premium foods like wagyu beef, bluefin tuna and caviar has plunged with thousands of restaurants shuttered and many economies sliding into recession amid the coronavirus pandemic. A

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Commentary: A dark dungeon under "shining city upon a hill"

When America's founding fathers decided to take up arms against their British lords and seek independence, their ideal was to build a whole new nation free from oppression and persecution. After so m

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Commentary: Scapegoating China won't help the United States

Amidst a raging COVID-19 pandemic and anti-racism protests rocking American cities, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo once again played the scapegoating game. This t

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Commentary: Washington should ditch sanctimonious double standards on human rights

Washington has long been accustomed to lecturing others on human rights, yet the recent mass street protests sweeping across the United States against racial discrimin