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Mexican president to hold first meeting with Trump as U.S. election looms

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador meets with his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, for the first time on Wednesday, in a potentially awkward encounter that ha

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PQShield raises $7M for quantum-ready cryptographic security solutions

A deep tech startup building cryptographic solutions to secure hardware, software, and communications systems for a future when quantum computers may render many current cybersecurity approaches usele

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Asus and Lenovo among the first to launch Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus devices

Qualcomm just revealed initial details around the Snapdragon 865 Plus. Like the 855 Plus before it, the upcoming chip represents a mid-year performance boost to the company’s mobile flagship. Think o

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U.S. crosses over 3 million known infections as coronavirus surges

The U.S. coronavirus outbreak crossed over three million confirmed cases. /Reuters The U.S. coronavirus outbreak crossed a grim milestone of over three million confirmed cases on Tuesday as mo

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Australia's second-biggest city under new virus lockdown

01:00 More than five million residents of Melbourne would be locked down for six weeks after confirmed COVID-19 cases surged in Australia's second-biggest city, authorities announced T

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TikTok says it will no longer operate in Hong Kong due to national security law

Hong Kong police no longer have to get a court order to remove internet posts they claim "endanger national security".

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Passenger on Baltic cruise confirmed with COVID-19, hundreds possibly exposed: Finnish authority

Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) said on Monday that a passenger traveling on a cruise ferry between the Finnish capital Helsinki and the Estonian capital Tallinn had been confirme

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UK finance ministry pledges funding to triple number of traineeships

Britain will offer its largest ever expansion of traineeships, its finance ministry said on Sunday, ahead of a highly-anticipated update due later in the week on the government's support for the econ

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APD | Indian retaliation to its military defeat at Ladakh

Editor's note: The author is Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan, Sinologist (ex-Diplomat), Editor, Analyst, Non-Resident Fellow of CCG (Center for China and Globalization), N

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Huawei says it remains 'open to discussions' with UK government

Chinese technology firm Huawei said Sunday that it remains "open to discussions" with the British government and is working closely with its customers to find ways of managing the proposed U.S. restr

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APD | Indian retaliation to its military defeat at Ladakh

Editor's note: The author is Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan, Sinologist (ex-Diplomat), Editor, Analyst, Non-Resident Fellow of CCG (Center for China and Globalization), N

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New study suggests hydroxychloroquine effective in treating COVID-19

The antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine. /VCG The antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, which was touted by U.S. President Donald Trump, was found effective in treating COVID-19 patients by a

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National security law in HKSAR to protect people's rights: HK's legal sector

Hong Kong's well-known legal bodies and practitioners said Thursday that the newly enacted law on safeguarding national security in the Hong Kong Special Administrativ

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China among high-performing financial inclusion countries in Asia

China is among the high performers in terms of financial inclusion in Asian economies, according to an index launched by the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA).The "Asian Index of Financial Inclusion Ecosyste

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Velodyne becomes latest tech company to go public using a SPAC, eschewing the traditional IPO path

Velodyne Lidar, the leading supplier of a sensor widely considered critical to the commercial deployment of autonomous vehicles, said Thursday it has struck a deal to merge with special-purpose acquis

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46 nations support China's anti-terrorism efforts in Xinjiang

More than 40 nations have highly recognized China's efforts in fighting against terrorism and extremism to protect human rights in Xinjiang at the 44th session of the U

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State-backed COVID-19 disinfo spreads faster and farther than local news outlets in 4 languages

Questionable stories on COVID-19 from state-backed outlets in Russia, China, Turkey, and Iran are being shared more widely than reporting by major news organizations around the world, according to Oxf