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NBA All-Star Game: For Kobe, for the way basketball should have been

Giannis Antetolounmpo (R) blocks a shot by LeBron James (L) in the NBA All-Star Game at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, February 16, 2020. /VCG Photo The 2020 NBA All-Star Weekend came

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Pompeo starts Africa tour amid potential U.S. troops cuts

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo walks with Senegal's Foreign Minister Amadou Ba at the Presidential Palace in Dakar, Senegal, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020. /AP Photo U.S. Secretary of State Mike

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A record of sixteen days

When Raz Gal Or was waiting at the Beijing Capital International Airport to catch a flight to Tel Aviv ahead of the Spring Festival, both the 26-year-old entrepreneur and his traveling companion Brian

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Park wins Australian Open, boosting Olympic hopes

Inbee Park of Korea in action during day 4 of the 2020 ISPS HANDA Women's Australian Open at Royal Adelaide Golf Club, Adelaide, Australia, February 16, 2020. /Getty Images South Korean Inbee

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Asia becomes China's top overseas M&A destination in 2019: report

Driven by the Belt and Road Initiative, Asia became the most popular overseas mergers and acquisitions (MA) destination for Chinese enterprises last year, a report by t

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Japan, Indonesia reign supreme at Badminton Asia Team Championships

Indonesia and Japan claimed the respective men's and women's crowns at the 2020 Badminton Asia Team Championships in Manila, the Philippines on Sunday.During the men's finals held at the Rizal Mem

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Asian Hustle Network gaining popularity with Asian-Americans

02:27 An online platform called the Asian Hustle Network has been getting tens of thousands of followers across the United States.Young entrepreneurs, who launched the group in Califor

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Japan, Indonesia reign supreme at Badminton Asia Team Championships

Indonesia and Japan claimed the respective men's and women's crowns at the 2020 Badminton Asia Team Championships in Manila, the Philippines on Sunday.During the men's finals held at the Rizal Mem

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Israeli army says "Hamas hacks into soldiers' phones"

The Hamas militant group had "hacked into hundreds of Israeli soldiers' mobile phones" by posing as young Israeli women on social media before the attempt was thwarted,

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Hong Kong reports 57th confirmed case, 2nd cured case of COVID-19

The number of confirmed cases of novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) in Hong Kong has increased to 57, while a second patient has been cured and discharged from the

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Police shooting critically injures gunman in California

Police shot and critically injured a young man Saturday at a commuter train station in Northern California, forcing the station to be closed for about eight hours, local media reported. Police Chief

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Rethinking COVID-19 media coverage: A call to humanize suffering

Editor's note: Dr. Hodan Osman Abdi is a university lecturer and research fellow at the Institute of African Studies at Zhejiang Normal University. The article reflects the author's views, and not

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Struggling Morocco oasis risks becoming mirage

Dead palm trees lie on dry, yellowish earth near an abandoned adobe house in Morocco's arid southeast, as drought threatens ancient oases."I grew up in this oasis and I have seen it shrink," says 53-

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Asia Album: Bangladeshi people embrace spring with colors, joy

Girls pose for pictures during the Pahela Falgun festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Feb. 14, 2020. (Str/Xinhua) DHAKA, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Embracing spring with colors and joy, Bangladeshi people on Fr

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‘Capitalism generates a lot of wealth depending on the situation’

Ben Tarnoff is a columnist at The Guardian, a co-founder of tech ethics magazine Logic and arguably one of the world’s top experts on the intersection of tech and socialism.But what I think you really

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NBA All-Star Weekend: Hornets' young men nail it for Team USA

Miles Bridges #0 of Team USA holds Most Valuable Player trophy after his team beat Team World 151-131 in the NBA Rising Stars game at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., February 14, 20

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Italy PM unveils 10-year investment plan for country's South

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Friday unveiled a multi-billion-euro 10-year investment plan aimed at stimulating the economy and creating jobs in the country's chronically impoverished sou