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10-yr-old helps Biden-Harris team devise global plastic policy

Environmentalist Madhvi Chitoor is holding a proclamation declaring April as a plastic-free month, Denver, Colorado, U.S., March 2018. /Courtesy of Madhvi Chittoor On July 6, Madhvi Chittoor w

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Lychee farming promotes people's livelihoods in Guangdong

03:02 With a striking red abundance on branches with a soothing scent, lychee, the popular Chinese fruit, has come to its harvest season in the southeastern city of Gua

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What is driving China's declining out-of-pocket health spending?

Out-of-pocket (OOP) health payments by people in China are increasing, even as such spending drops as a share of the country's current health expenditure.It may seem li

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What is driving China's declining out-of-pocket health spending?

Out-of-pocket (OOP) health payments by people in China are increasing, even as such spending drops as a share of the country's current health expenditure.It may seem li

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APD | Weekly top 10 hot news (Jun. 19 - Jun. 25)

Every weekend, Asia Pacific Daily will provide you with a run-down of the latest hot news.This week, the following hot news you should know:Top 1 | Moscow Warns of Dire

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Extra Crunch roundup: Unpacking BuzzFeed’s SPAC, curb your meeting enthusiasm, more

Meetings should have a clear purpose, but instead, they’ve become a way to measure status and reinforce what is colloquially referred to as CYA culture.There’s a kernel of truth in every j

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Prince Charles Bankrolled Harry & Meghan Until Last Summer Despite Their Claims of Being 'Cut Off'

Royal accounts show that Charles, Prince of Wales, continued to bankroll Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, handing over a “substantial sum” for months after they sensatio

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5 takeaways from BuzzFeed’s SPAC deck

Digital media outfit BuzzFeed announced today that it will go public via a SPAC, or blank check company. BuzzFeed also disclosed that it will purchase Complex, another media company, for $300 million

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Cinema's leading role

A visitor examines a prop spacesuit at an exhibition themed on the movie The Wandering Earth in 2019 in Beijing.[Photo by Zhu Xingxin/China Daily] To paraphrase a silver screen classic, to bold

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China's 2021 box office hits 27B yuan, slower than 2019

China's 2021 box office revenue topped 27 billion yuan (about 4.19 billion U.S. dollars) late on Sunday evening.The achievement this year came about 20 days later than in 2019 when China's yea

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Mobile commerce startup Via rounds up $15 million in Series A funding

Mobile commerce is where it’s at, and rising investment in so-called conversational commerce startups underscores the opportunity.Via, a two-year-old, Bay Area-based startup, is among those ridi

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APD | Indian media faces backlash in Nepal again for calling 'Chinese Flood'

By APD writer Shristi KafleAs Nepal has been struggling against the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the monsoon-induced calamity has added more tragedy.Floods and

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Live audience 'baby steps' back to normality for Milan fashion

The shows represent baby steps back to the way things were but the effect of the live events are expected to give the industry a much needed boost. Lights, camera, real live audiences - Milan

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Sony sets a new standard with the WF-1000XM4 earbuds

It’s been just under two years since I reviewed the WF-1000XM3, and in that time, Sony’s earbuds never stopped being the reference point for high-end earbuds. Seriously, I reviewed a new pair like a m

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Nexford University lands $10.8M pre-Series A to scale its flexible remote learning platform

Two profound problems face the higher education sector globally — affordability and relevance. Whether you live in Africa, Europe, or the U.S., a major reason why people don’t go to univer

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Are we overestimating the ransomware threat?

On Monday afternoon, the U.S. Justice Department said it has seized much of the cryptocurrency ransom that U.S. pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline paid last month to a Russian hacking collective call

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Daily Crunch: Spotify’s new ‘Only You’ feature expands on personalization investment

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for June 2, 2021. It’s a good day