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China to build 100 national major cold-chain logistics bases by 2025

China plans to set up about 100 national backbone cold-chain logistics bases during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), the country's top economic planner said

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Lukashenko, Merkel agree Belarus-EU talks on migrant crisis: state media

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed during a phone call that the migrant crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border should be

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Monad emerges from stealth with $17M to solve the cybersecurity big data problem

Cloud security startup Monad, which offers a platform for extracting and connecting data from various security tools, has launched from stealth with $17 million in Series A funding led by Index Ventur

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Zebra Technologies is acquiring warehouse robotics company, Fetch

Zebra Technologies this morning announced its intention to purchased Bay Area-based warehouse robotics firm, Fetch. The $290 million deal finds the enterprise corporation snapping up 95% of the compan

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Youth were majority of Angola's new infections over past two months

FILE PHOTO: Angolan health workers stand outside the Central Vaccine warehouse in Luanda, March 2, 2021. /VCG Children and youth accounted for the majority of Angolans that contracted COVID-19

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Robotic vision startup Plus One raises $33M

San Antonio-based Plus One Robotics today announced a $33 million Series B. The round follows an $8.3 million Series A announced in 2018 and brings the company’s total funding to north of $40 million.

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A stroll on Shanghai's renovated Suzhou Creek

02:49 Suzhou River is the mother river of Shanghai, along which are located historical buildings such as General Post Office Building, Sihang Warehouse, and Fuxin Flour

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Fulfilment startup Cubyn raises €35M to expand across Europe

Cubyn, the Paris-based logistics startup that lets e-merchants outsource fulfilment and delivery logistics, has raised another €35 million in funding.The round is led by Eurazeo and Bpifrance Large Ve

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Nimble Robotics scores $50M for its fulfillment automation tech

Warehouse automation company Nimble Robotics today announced that it has raised a $50 million Series A. Led by DNS Capital and GSR Ventures and featuring Accel and Reinvent Capital, the round will go

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Indonesian supply chain startup Advotics raises $2.75M led by East Ventures

The rapid growth of e-commerce in Indonesia, especially during the pandemic, is placing increasing demands on its supply chain infrastructure. But the country’s logistics industry is highly frag

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Live: Inside largest COVID-19 vaccine logistic hub in the Middle East

The United Arab Emirates (the UAE) has launched a global logistics center, covering a temperature-controlled warehouse with an area of 19,000 square meters, to dispense 70 million doses o

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Robotics company Berkshire Grey to go public via SPAC

As far as fundraising goes, Berkshire Grey is in pretty good shape. When I visited its Massachusetts headquarters last year, following a massive $263 million Series B, the company discussed some prett

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Cold-chain imports' journey into China

02:36 It's been three months since the Chinese capital launched its origin-tracing system, "Beijing Cold-Chain" which allows customers to check the origin and nucleic acid test results

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Chinese regulator fines Vipshop 3 million yuan over unfair competition

A Vipshop warehouse in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, June 18, 2020. /CFP China's State Administration for Market Regulation, the country's top market regulator, on Monday fined appa

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Celebrated jewelry designer to show sculptures in Venice

A Dialogue between Materials and Time I, a work by Wallace Chan in 2020. [Photo/Courtesy of Wallace Chan] Wallace Chan is celebrated for his talent in jewelry design and cutting. Works of this

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Airbyte is an open-source data pipeline platform

If you’re working for a company that handles a ton of data, chances are your company is constantly moving data from applications, APIs and databases and sending it to a data warehouse or a data lake.

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​Top 10 Chinese films in 2020

Editor's Note:The year 2020, marred by the COVID-19 pandemic, was a tough year for the global film industry. The Chinese film industry was the one which got hit first. To protect people's health, a