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Hong Kong's number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rises to 129

Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) reported on late Wednesday three more newly confirmed COVID-19 cases and updated the total number of the confirmed cases

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America is creeping away from the one-China principle

Editor's note:James Rae is a professor from California State University Sacramento. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at Beijing Foreign Studies University from 2017 to 2018. The article reflects th

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Desperate to exit, a $10B price tag for Magic Leap is crazy

Augmented reality headset maker Magic Leap has struggled with the laws of physics and failed to get to market. Now it’s seeking an acquirer, but talks with Facebook and medical goods giant John

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Experts say Space Force is a vital, massive shift for US military

Despite the many jokes made at the expense of the first new U.S. military branch in nearly 80 years, industry experts say the Space Force represents a massive — and strategically significant — shift f

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Four charts you need to see to understand the COVID-19 outbreak

The COVID-19 contagion has drawn comparison with other outbreaks – including the 1918 Spanish flu crisis, one of the deadliest in human history – to get a better idea of the impact of the infection.B

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Hong Kong's confirmed COVID-19 cases rise to 126

All the members of a nine-people tour group from Hong Kong to Egypt might have been infected with COVID-19 virus, Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said W

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Uganda President Museveni honored for his support of sports in Africa

The #ANOC sports honor given to President Yoweri Museveni. /Photo courtesy: State House Uganda The Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) has awarded Ugandan President Yo

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COVID-19 Global Roundup: Everything you need to know

Over the past 24 hours, the number of new coronavirus cases outside China has been almost nine times higher than that inside the country, WHO officials announced on Monday.Stocks took their worst one

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Planting greenhouse tomatoes helps thousands escape poverty

01:12 In the Huazhou District of Weinan City in Shaanxi Province, greenhouse tomatoes covering more than 180 hectares are about to go to the market. The fruit and vegetable industry ha

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Italian economy suffering multiple blows as coronavirus outbreak grows

The blue-chip index on the Italian Stock Exchange plunged by 11.2 percent Monday over fears of an economic slowdown due to the country's outbreak of the coronavirus. Analysts said it could be just t

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Zapier CEO Wade Foster on scaling a remote team up to 300 employees

When Zapier was founded in 2011, it was a side project for three friends from Missouri who wanted to make it easier to connect any one web app to another. Nine years, millions of users and around 300

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SaaS stocks drop over 8%, reaching bear-market territory

Today was an awful day for the stock market, with global and domestic equities falling sharply as the world digested a collapse in oil prices, and yet another weekend of the spread of COVID-19. All ma

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Wait, you all haven’t been wiping down your smartphones this whole time?

A small consolation in the growing COVID-19 crisis is that some of our moderate germophobia has begun to feel like a minor super power. As I got settled for a cross-country flight last week, I took ou

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APD | Entry restrictions inflame Japan-South Korea tensions

By APD writer AliceJapan’s decision on March 5 to impose a 14-day quarantine on travelers arriving from South Korea due to the novel coronavirus will have significant i

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Goodlord, the proptech startup that offers a SaaS for rentals, has raised £10M in Series B funding

Goodlord, the London ‘proptech’ startup that offers cloud-based software to help estate agents, landlords and tenants manage the rental process, appears to have achieved somewhat of a turn-around afte

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Duterte declares state health emergency amid COVID-19, with "no-touch" policy on president announced

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared on Monday a state public health emergency after the Department of Health confirmed the local COVID-19 transmission in the country. In the meantime, the

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2nd Iranian lawmaker dies of COVID-19, while some Mideast countries take new precautionary measures

An Iranian lawmaker died of COVID-19 infection on Saturday as the epidemic claimed 21 more lives in the country. Several countries in the Middle East took new measures to contain or prevent the vir