Olympic rings float in the waters off Odaiba island in Tokyo, Japan, January 17, 2020. /CFP Tokyo Olympics' organizers are "unwavering" on the prospect of holding the coronavirus-delayed Games
A nurse cleans up a room as a body of a COVID-19 victim lies in a body bag labeled with stickers at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles, California, U
President Donald Trump's final clemency list, though not as long as originally expected, could include some names that will cause another wave of controversy as his tim
Netflix is always in search of a better way to instantly connect users to something to watch, instead of having them waste time unsuccessfully scrolling through all the available programming options.
Bay Area-based construction startup TraceAir today announced a $3.5 million Series A. Led by London-based XTX Ventures, this round brings the company’s total funding up to $7 million. The raise includ
Podchaser, a startup building what it calls “IMDB for podcasts,” recently announced that it has raised $4 million in a funding round led by Greycroft.In other words, it’s a site wher
IEA lowered its forecast for global oil demand in the first quarter of 2021. /CFP Oil demand recovery will take a hit from a spike in new coronavirus cases before vaccine roll-outs and stimulu
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FILE PHOTO: A nurse prepares a COVID-19 vaccine for a patient in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Brussels, Belgium. /VCG Image Belgium's Scientific Institute of Public Health Sciensano (Sciensano) report
University education is getting more expensive, and at the moment it feels a bit like a petrie dish for infections, but the long-term trends continue to show a dramatic growth in the number of people
India has asked WhatsApp to withdraw the planned change to its privacy policy, posing a new headache to Facebook-owned service that identifies the South Asian nation as its biggest market by users.In
Chinese family drama "A Little Red Flower" continues to dominate China's box office, raking in more than 146.4 million yuan ($22.6 million) in the past week (January 11
By the end of 2019, Hollywood had much to be excited about, capping the year with a cinematic triumph that demonstrated the potential of the Chinese market: Disney and Marvel Studios' Avengers: En
01:39 China National Space Administration (CNSA) unveiled regulations on lunar soil use and research on Monday, encouraging international cooperation on researches of s
A shipbuilding enterprise wharf is seen in Taicang Port, east China's Jiangsu Province, December 9, 2020. /VCG China's shipbuilding industry saw increased output in 2020 while maintaining a wo
A RMB clearing bank in the Philippines was launched in a ceremony held in capital city Manila on Saturday.Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Philippi
Confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide have topped 94 million, with over 2 million deaths and more than 51 million recoveries, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University.Here is the lates