The border fence that divides the U.S. and Mexico in San Diego, California, the U.S., November 17, 2018. /Xinhua Editor's note: Hannan Hussain is a foreign affairs commentator and author. He i
Insuretech startup Counterpart, has raised $10 million in funding led by Valor Equity Partners. Also participating was Susa Ventures and Felicis Ventures. Counterpart works in the ‘management liabilit
A night view of Wangfujing pedestrian street in Beijing, China, February 16, 2021. /CFP Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to China rose by 34.2 percent year on year to $26.07 billion in Ja
In the nearly ten years since it launched as a whole animal butchery out of a storefront in East Nashville, the founders of Porter Road have wanted to herd America’s meat industry down a new pat
Elon Musk is bringing his utility-scale battery ambitions to the Lone Star state. An under-the-radar Tesla subsidiary has been at work building a 100 MW energy storage project in Angleton, Texas, acco
Colombian startup Elenas says it’s helping tens of thousands of women make money by selling products online. And today, it announced that it has raised $6 million in Series A funding.That’
More than 931 million tonnes of food, equalling nearly 17 percent of the total food available for consumption in 2019, were dumped in dustbins, dampening global efforts to reduce hunger and emissi
Marie Maybou melts snow on the kitchen stove to use the water to flush the toilets in her home after the city water stopped running, February 19, 2021, Austin, Texas. /CFP This week's killer f
Abound, an online marketplace that helps independent retailers stock their shelves with new products from up-and-coming brands, is announcing that it has raised $22.9 million in its first institutiona
Asia's richest man and Reliance Chief Executive Mukesh Ambani (L); Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man and founder of Amazon (R). /VCG Two of the world's richest men, Jeff Bezos and Mukesh Amb
Newly manufactured cars are seen at the automobile terminal in the port of Dalian, Liaoning Province, China, July 9, 2018. /Reuters Sales of passenger cars in China last month saw a sharp rise
It’s becoming harder for the U.S. to ignore the very real effects of global climate change — and despite the efforts of naysayers, it’s not a push to renewables that’s to blame
FDI into the Chinese mainland expands by 4.6 percent year on year. /CFP China remained an attractive destination for foreign direct investment (FDI) in January, the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCO
A textile factory in Nantong, east China's Jiangsu Province, February 9, 2021. /CFP China's January factory gate prices rose for the first time in a year due to rising demand, data from the N
Britain has asked for an extension until 2023 of a grace period on checks that would be conducted on trade moving between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Ki
In 2020, nearly $24 billion in venture capital poured into companies creating new technology products or innovative business models for the real estate market.While things like smart home apps and dig
Podchaser, a startup building what it calls “IMDB for podcasts,” recently announced that it has raised $4 million in a funding round led by Greycroft.In other words, it’s a site wher
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