Victoria Stafford, a third-year student at UC Berkeley, was set to begin working at Yelp in June as a sales intern — the only internship she applied to. And then it was canceled because of the C
French design houses Yves Saint Laurent and Balenciaga will shift their attention from high fashion to producing surgical face masks to aid the global coronavirus assau
There is an immediate need for startups to handle the crisis around the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, from diagnostics to identify potential carriers of the virus to assisting the treatment of pa
Remote Year wants to help people travel around the world and keep their job while doing so. The Chicago startup relies on the idea that “great work can be done anywhere.” And to prove it, it brings pe
Israeli authorities are urging the residents of the country to stay at home and to avoid physical contact with the outside world if not necessary. Israeli President Re
Archaeologists have excavated a part of a copper smelting site dating from the late Xia Dynasty to the early Shang Dynasty in northern China's Shanxi Province, which i
Spring is usually the season for job recruitment in China, particularly in March and April. This year's COVID-19 outbreak, however, disrupted the pace, especially for college graduates.It also pos
Myanmar government Friday announced the restriction of mass gatherings and public events including the traditional Thingyan water festival until the end of April, acco
A state of emergency took effect on Friday in Palestine amid fears of the spread of the novel coronavirus. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared on Thursday a s
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on Thursday that it had decided to take urgent precautionary measures against the novel coronavirus in the West Bank city
China has relocated 9.3 million poor residents to more inhabitable areas over the past four years, the country's top economic planning body said Wednesday. Among them,
As many people across China have reduced outdoor activity and stayed indoors to curb the spread of the epidemic during the past month, emerging business modes have bee
(Video by Xinhua Reporters Zhou Saang and Wei Ying) "Shadow puppetry is a wonderful way to tell interesting tales from Chinese history and tradition." NEW YORK, March 3 (Xinhua) -- An exhibition,
Shasta Ventures, a venture capital firm that has raised more than a half-dozen funds in its life, announced a new program this morning designed to help its portfolio companies scale to $10 million of
It’s T-minus one week to the big day, March 3, when more than 1,000 startuppers will convene in San Jose, Calif. for TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2020. We’re talking a hefty cross-section representing
The country saw a decline of the number of impoverished rural residents from nearly 100 million in late 2012 to 16.6 million by the end of 2018, according to the data from China's National Bureau
Chinese authorities stressed unremitting efforts to win the tough battle against poverty by securing employment of the poor population amid the novel coronavirus outbr