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Swallow your pride and drop vaccine racism

Editor's note: Timothy Kerswell is a research fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). He lived in Macao for seven years, working as an assistant profe

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Swallow your pride and drop vaccine racism

Editor's note: Timothy Kerswell is a research fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). He lived in Macao for seven years, working as an assistant profe

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China's 2021 box office revenue hits 25 bln yuan

China's 2021 box office revenue topped 25 billion yuan (about 3.90 billion U.S. dollars) as of Friday morning.Eight of the top 10 earners this year at China's box office are domestic productio

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Paired pulls in $3.6M to encourage more couples to get cosy with app-based relationship care

Can an app improve your romantic relationships? The founders behind Paired, a “relationship care” app for couples, believe it can. And since launching in October, with $1M to kick things o

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China's 2021 box office revenue hits 23 bln yuan

China's 2021 box office revenue exceeded 23 billion yuan (about 3.56 billion U.S. dollars) as of Friday.The number was higher than the total ticket sales for the whole of 2020 at 20.42 billion yua

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Exclusive interview with Viya: Products are my core competitiveness

03:15 China sits among the most popular markets for online shopping, especially in livestreaming. In an exclusive interview with CGTN, the country's livestream shopping superstar Viya p

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Payments, lending and neobanks rule fintechs in emerging markets, report says

Tech investments in emerging markets have been in full swing over the past couple of years and their ecosystems have thrived as a result.Some of these markets like Africa, Latin America, and India, ha

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WorkBoard raises $75M as the OKR-focused startup bets on a growing economy, changes to business culture

This morning WorkBoard, a software startup that sells software designed to help other companies plan, announced that it has raised a $75 million Series D. Softbank Group led the investment, which saw

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Key piece of Biden’s $1.8T families plan expires after 2025

President Joe Biden couldn’t get everything he wanted into his own $1.8 trillion families plan.His proposed child tax credit is set to expire after 2025. It would provi

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Cloud infrastructure market keeps rolling in Q1 with almost $40B in revenue

Conventional wisdom over the last year has suggested that the pandemic has driven companies to the cloud much faster than they ever would have gone without that forcing event with some suggesting it h

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Ivorian startup Afrikrea partners with DHL and Visa to launch SaaS e-commerce platform ANKA

In 2016, Ivorian e-commerce startup Afrikrea started as a marketplace for African-based and inspired clothing, accessories, arts, and crafts. Over the past five years, Afrikrea has served more than 7,

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YC-backed Kidato raises $1.4M seed to scale its online school for K-12 students in Africa

In public schools across Africa, classrooms are often overcrowded and this affects how teachers and students interact. The large classroom creates too much work for teachers leaving students’ in

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China's non-fossil power capacity to surpass that of coal in 2021: CEC

Wind turbines in central China's Hubei Province, August 16, 2020. /CFP China's installed capacityof producing non-fossil energy will surpass that of coal-fired power generation for the first t

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Disney Imagineering’s Project Kiwi is free walking robot that will make you believe in Groot

The black curtain pulls aside and a character straight out of the movies waves hello. This is not an uncommon occurrence when I’m around Imagineers, but this time is special. The character isn’t a cos

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China's 2021 box office exceeds $3B

China's 2021 box office revenue exceeded 20 billion yuan (3 billion U.S. dollars) as of Sunday, almost equal to the total ticket sales for the whole of 2020.Comedian and actress Jia Ling's mai

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Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform

Four years ago, MasterClass, a platform that sells celebrity-taught classes, invited chess legend Garry Kasparov to teach a class. He said yes, but soon realized that creating a message that could sat

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U.S. companies voicing will to further engage Chinese market

02:24 Despite trade disputes and the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. companies including Tesla and Dell vowed to remain optimistic about China's development and will further en