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Teenager hopes to break women's solo flight round-the-world record

A Belgian-British teenager took to the skies Wednesday in her quest to become the youngest woman to fly around the world solo. /AP With her parents looking on, 19-year-old Zara Rutherfo

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Gapsquare, a pioneer of machine learning into gender pay disparity, is acquired by XpertHR

Inequalities between women and men in the workplace have been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic and are likely to persist in the near future, according to the International Labour Organization

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Roblox partners with Sony Music to connect artists with money-making activities in the metaverse

Video game platform Roblox announced this morning it has partnered with Sony Music Entertainment on a deal that will allow the two companies to work together to create music experiences for the Roblox

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Chinese online retailer Shein takes fast fashion world by storm

Shein, the fastest-growing e-commerce company in the world, and perhaps China's most mysterious, is now taking the ultra-fast fashion market by storm. While its fast-fa

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Why Amazon should pay attention to Shein

Amazon commands a vast, dominating empire in the world of e-commerce. While its marketplace has proved a boon for businesses trying to get off the ground, many of the more successful companies are now

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Babyboo Instagram advert on Halloween fashion banned for objectifying women

The advertising watchdog concluded the Halloween ad included a gender stereotype and could be seen as demeaning to women.

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Uruguayan payments startup dLocal quadruples valuation to $5B with $150M raise

Cross-border payments startup dLocal has raised $150 million at a $5 billion valuation, less than seven months after securing $200 million at a $1.2 billion valuation.This means that the five-year-old

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The cotton battle: what is the legal response?

A cotton harvesting machine operating in a field in Manas County, Hui Autonomous Prefecture of Changji, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, October 17, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's n

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What's behind fashion brands' political gambles?

The front of an H&M store in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, March 24, 2021 /CFP The backlash against international fashion chains in China continues after Swedish fast-fashion

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Beijing urges U.S. to protect Chinese national's safety

Mallory Rahman and her daughter Zara Rahman, 4, who live nearby, pause after bringing flowers to the Gold Spa massage parlor in Atlanta, U.S. on March 17, 2021, the day after eight people were ki

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Sidelines | A Loose Victory

'Sidelines' is a column by CGTN's Social Media DeskYou'd be surprised to learn how close some antique Chinese poems come to mirroring idle life in lockdown."To clothe y

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Why Middle East and Maghreb require shrewd diplomacy with new envoys

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a press conference at the UN headquarters in New York, U.S., February 22, 2017. /Xinhua Editor's note:Hamzah Rifaat Hussain is a former visi

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How cross-border e-commerce is internationalizing Double-11

China is not alone in celebrating what used to be an exclusively Chinese festival. Less known to the 1.4-billion population is that the Double-11 (Singles' Day) shopping extravaganza is also gaining

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Sea turtle sightings on decline in UK and Ireland

Marine conservationists have expressed concern over the declining number of endangered sea turtle sightings along the coasts of the UK and Ireland.A study of the record, dating back to more than a

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H&M to close 250 stores as COVID accelerates online shift

Shoppers walk past an H&M store on the Magnificent Mile on December 16, 2019, in Chicago, Illinois. /VCG HM plans to close 250 stores next year, 5 percent of its current network, as the corona

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Global Business Daily: Deutsche Bank cuts, Tiffany suit, homeworking

"Coronavirus has further changed the demands placed on advisory services and the branch business."These are the words Philipp Gossow, chief operating officer Germany at Deutsche Bank AG, used to expl

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France, Germany, Italy ready to consider sanctions if arms embargo violation on Libya continues

Fighters of Libya's UN-backed government celebrate in Tarhuna, Libya, June 5, 2020. (Photo by Hamza Turkia/Xinhua)"We are ready to consider the possible use of sanctions if the violation of the embarg