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CMG blazes a trail with world's first 5G livestreaming studio on high-speed trains

Livestreaming ultra-high-definition (UHD) videos from a bullet train moving at 350 kilometers per hour must surely be an extremely tall order, but the China Media Group

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China climbs 22 places in rankings of global travel freedom

Passengers seen at Daxing International Airport, Beijing, China, March 16, 2021. /CFPChina has been up 22 places from 90th to 68th in terms of global travel freedom sin

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Women's Super League seals 'landmark' deal with BBC and Sky

Caroline Weir of Manchester City and Abbey-Leigh Stringer Everton Women during a match on December 6, 2020. /AP Women's football has taken a significant step forward with a commercial deal for

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Cannabis marketing startup Fyllo acquires DataOwl

Fyllo has acquired DataOwl, a company offering marketing and loyalty tools for cannabis retailers.Fyllo said it already works with 320 cannabis retailers across 25 states (plus Puerto Rico and Jamaica

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Bird flu outbreaks reported in Europe, Japan, India

A government worker wrings a bird's neck in Nandurbar District, Maharashtra, India, February 20, 2006. /Getty With less than 15 days into 2021, a pall of new health scare is hanging over Japa

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Solid fundamentals for Chinese yuan likely to be extended into 2021

Editor's Note: Jimmy Zhu is chief strategist at Fullerton Research. The article reflects the author's opinion, and not necessarily the views of CGTN. Domestic economic conditions in China and a we

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Penguin to buy Simon & Schuster, create publishing giant

German media giant Bertelsmann said on Wednesday that its Penguin Random House division is buying rival Simon Schuster in a megadeal that would reshape the U.S. publishing industry.Penguin Random

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SiFive’s new PC is bringing open-source computing closer to reality

One of the most interesting projects to watch these days in tech is RISC-V. The non-profit organization and wider community is building an open-source and standardized instruction set architecture (IS

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War epic pays homage to martyrs

Co-directed by Guan Hu, Guo Fan and Lu Yang, the film teams up veteran actors Zhang Yi, Wu Jing, Li Jiuxiao and Wei Chen as well as Deng Chao.The film is set on July 12, 1953, the second day after the

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Hezbollah leader says Israel to pay heavy price if behind Beirut blast

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gives a televised speech following a deadly blast in Beirut's port area, Lebanon, August 7, 2020. /Reuters Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah sai

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Trump administration announces major midband spectrum auction for 5G

5G is increasingly coming into focus as a set of technologies that has the potential to dramatically expand the quality, bandwidth, and range of wireless connectivity. One of the major blocks to actua

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Singaporean startup Partipost gets $3.5 million to let anyone become an influencer

Partipost, a Singapore-based marketing startup that lets anyone with a social media profile sign up for influencer campaigns, has raised $3.5 million in new funding. The round was led by SPH Ventures,

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Update: China releases article exposing U.S. increasingly severe human rights issues

Homeless people are seen bundled in their tents underneath the Fullerton Ave viaduct along the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago, the United States, on Jan. 30, 2019. (Xinhua/Patrick Gorski) BEIJING, Jul

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Biden opens 13-point lead in poll as Trump's popularity sinks

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event devoted to the reopening of the U.S. economy during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandem

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Sony’s ZV-1 compact camera zooms in on vloggers

Sony has taken aim at the suddenly enormous market of people who want to self-produce high-quality video with a minimum of setup. Its ZV-1 mutates the versatile RX100 series into a selfie video machin

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Oil rebounds from 18-year lows after U.S. and Russia agree to talks

Oil recovered ground on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to talks to stabilize energy markets, with benchmarks climbing off 18-year lows hit as th

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President Duterte launches P200 billion in social protection program amid COVID-19 threats

By APD writer Melo M. AcuñaMANILA Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte launched what he described as the “largest and widest” social protection program” to make up for