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Iranian president warns of another wave of COVID-19

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani called on Saturday for stricter COVID-19 border controls, noting another wave of the COVID-19 pandemic may be on the way in the country.

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Coupang files for mega US IPO

Earlier today, South Korean e-commerce and delivery giant Coupang filed to go public in the United States. As a private company, Coupang has raised billions, including capital from American venture ca

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2up launches ahead of Valentines Day to help gamers find one another

People don’t often equate gaming with dating, but maybe they should. As gaming continues to grow in popularity, particularly in the wake of the pandemic, a new startup called 2up is launching to

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Mahjong machines, pet clothes among festival gift sales

Majong is a popular entertainment for Chinese. /CFPFor billions of Chinese people, it's a custom to go shopping for the Spring Festival holiday, which is traditionally

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Has pause button been pressed on China-CEEC cooperation amid COVID-19?

Has the pause button been pressed on China-CEEC cooperation amid COVID-19? The answer is no, even though the whole world experienced a severe collapse in economy in 2020. According to the latest data

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SOE reform to tackle China's uneven development

04:35 State-owned Enterprise Reforms started back in the 70s. What has been fixed in the past four decades? What needs to be done? The State-owned Assets Supervision an

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SMIC reports annual revenue jump, sanctions weigh on 2021 growth

China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) on Thursday reported revenues of $981 million in the fourth quarter of 2020, surging 16.9 percent on a yearly basis. However, as sanctio

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Domestic EV makers rival Tesla in China, can they win?

A NIO ES8 electric SUV on display at the Shanghai auto show in Shanghai, China, October 3, 2020. /VCG The competition between Tesla and its Chinese rivals was always intense, and now it is get

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China secured bumper trade results with CEE countries in 2020

China's foreign trade with the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC) ticked up 8.4 percent in 2020 to topple $103.45 billion, dwarfing the $100 billion threshol

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Nigerian digital bank Carbon hit $240M in payments processed last year, up 89% from 2019

In 2018, Carbon, a Nigerian fintech startup, made its financials public for the first time. Although typical for foreign private startups, it’s almost an anomaly in Africa. There have been rare

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Vietnam approves AstraZeneca vaccine, cuts short Communist Party congress

Vietnam approved its first COVID-19 vaccine and cut short a key ruling Communist Party meeting, state media reported on Saturday, as the country battled its biggest cor

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Rising African venture investment powers fintech, cleantech bets in 2020

As a turbulent week in the capital world, we’re taking a look at something a bit slower-moving: venture capital trends in Africa during 2020.The Exchange has long explored quarterly and yearly d

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How 2 startups scaled to $50M ARR and beyond

The current list of venture-backed private companies we expect to go public — and the number of companies that might say yes to a SPAC-led debut — underscore just how many large startups there are in

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Climate change is already a humanitarian crisis

/Getty Images Editor's note: Oussama Mezoui is the president and CEO of the non-profit PAUSA. He has contributed to Foreign Policy, Newsweek and OZY. The article reflects the author's views an

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APD | China-Pakistan Industrial cooperation for rapid economic development

Author: Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan, Sinologist (ex-Diplomat), Editor, Analyst, Non-Resident Fellow of CCG (Center for China and Globalization), National University o

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Fast recovery pushed China's foreign trade up 1.5% in 2020

Workers stepped up production of LCD TVs for export in Huainan, Anhui Province, China, January 6, 2021. /VCG China's foreign trade rose 1.5 percent to $4.65 trillion in 2020, helped by its rec

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Techstars names Maëlle Gavet CEO as the accelerator group looks to expand

This morning Techstars, a network of startup accelerators and a venture capital fund, announced that Maëlle Gavet is its new CEO. Former CEO and co-founder David Brown will stay on Techstars’ bo