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France Slaps Record €1.1 Billion Fine on Apple For Anti-Competitive Practices

France's competition authority has ruled that the tech giant abused its economic dominance over independent retailers in France and that its actions barred them from co

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Israel to swear in new parliament under coronavirus shadow

Israel was to swear in its newly elected parliament on Monday under stringent restrictions because of the coronavirus outbreak in what was expected to be a surreal cere

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New human rights report gives a glimpse into the real U.S.

Editor's note: Yuan Sha is an assistant research fellow at the China Institute of International Studies. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.China's S

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Virus-fuelled global rout sees Japan's Nikkei tumble to 3-year low on panic selling

Tokyo stocks tanked Friday to close substantially lower, with the benchmark Nikkei stock index at one point logging the steepest one-day point decline since April 1990

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U.S. coronavirus threat fuels demand for Traditional Chinese Medicine

New York City acupuncturist and herbalist Clayton Shiu says demand for traditional Chinese remedies has surged at his practice since March 1, the day New York announced its first case of the novel

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Adtech giant Criteo is being investigated by France’s data watchdog

Adtech giant Criteo is under investigation by the French data protection watchdog, the CNIL, following a complaint filed by privacy rights campaign group Privacy International.“I can confirm tha

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Turbulent first 100 days of Von der Leyen commission

Editor's note:Ji Xianbai, PhD, is a research fellow with the International Political Economy Program of S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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Thai gov't launches program to enable Thais to voice grievances directly to PM

BANGKOK, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Thursday welcomed groups representing farmers, civil society and independent entrepreneurs to make use of the government's latest

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Stocks fell sharply today, briring yet more unwelcome volatility to tech shares

Are you tired of TechCrunch reporting on the daily stock market gyrations? Well, we’re tired of writing about them. And yet here we are, because stonks yet again did wild things that we have to

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Women's T20 World Cup: Lizelle Lee century helps South Africa rout Thailand

Lizelle Lee's brutal century helped South Africa steamroller Thailand by 113 runs in their Women's T20 World Cup group match in Canberra.Lee thrashed 101 from only 60 b

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Women's T20 World Cup: Lizelle Lee century helps South Africa rout Thailand

Lizelle Lee's brutal century helped South Africa steamroller Thailand by 113 runs in their Women's T20 World Cup group match in Canberra.Lee thrashed 101 from only 60 b

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Hosni Mubarak, pro-Western strongman ousted in Arab Spring, dies at 91

Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak, has died at the age of 91.His funeral, held briefly after his death, received full military honors on President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's orders.Seen by many as

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Powers renew pledge to uphold Libya arms embargo

Countries with interests in Libya’s civil war recommitted themselves Sunday to uphold a barely working arms embargo, four weeks after a peace summit in Berlin was follo

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Global securities firms bullish on China despite coronavirus woes

Global financial service giants are bullish on the long-term growth prospects of the Chinese market, revving up donations to help the country combat the novel coronavi

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HKSAR may enhance relief measures as novel coronavirus outbreak adds to economic woes: officials

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government may enhance the existing economic relief measures as the novel coronavirus outbreak has added to the woe

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As its fundraising lags, SoftBank’s second Vision Fund could be near-sighted

SoftBank, the technology conglomerate that transformed the venture capital industry and made waves in the technology world with its $100 billion Vision Fund, may not be able to repeat the performance

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Commentary: Zero-sum mindset more sickening than coronavirus

Seek profit or partake in China's coronavirus battle? That has become an inopportune question for some people who believe they see a window of opportunity in this public health emergency of internat