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Updated March 03, 2020 21:33:27 A man who flew into Avalon Airport on Tuesday morning is one of hundreds of people who have been tested for coronavirus in Victoria, as the state's hospitals prepare for the pandemic phase of the outbreak. Key points:The State Government expects the virus to begin…

Alex Wong/Getty ImagesJeff Bezos has lost $US10 billion from his personal net worth in the past week as markets continue to drop amid coronavirus fears. Cases of the novel coronavirus may be concentrated in China, but the stock market losses are not. Bernard Arnault, the chairman of Louis Vuitton parent…

BEIJING (Reuters) - China minted three times as many new billionaires than the United States in the past year, with fortunes made in drugs and online entertainment after a mini-boom from the coronavirus outbreak, a ranking of the world’s wealthiest people shows. FILE PHOTO: People stand near a window overlooking…

BEIJING (Reuters) - China minted three times as many new billionaires than the United States in the past year, with fortunes made in drugs and online entertainment after a mini-boom from the coronavirus outbreak, a ranking of the world’s wealthiest people shows. FILE PHOTO: People stand near a window overlooking…

Chinese scientists claim they have developed an oral vaccine to beat coronavirus using baker's yeastThe news was announced by Professor Huang Jinhai from Tianjin University He has reportedly taken four doses of the drug without having side effectsBut the expert said the product was still 'far from' being sold on the marketIt…

View photos(Bloomberg) -- The coronavirus epidemic is exposing the dichotomy of the world’s second largest tech economy. Chinese businesses like Alibaba and Meituan with outsized footprints in the material world are rushing to contain the fallout while virtual denizens ByteDance Inc. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. ride a surge in social…

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China's tech billionaire Jack Ma has pledged over USD 2 million to support the development of antiviral drugs to combat the new coronavirus which has killed 2,236 people in the country and infected more than 75,000 others.The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the epidemic as a public health emergency.In…

Jack Ma’s advice for Chinese entrepreneurs in the time of coronavirus: retool, reflect and restore work at a steady paceRead More

For Alibaba, Covid-19 isn’t its first encounter with epidemic. This week, TechNode’s translation column looks back at China’s last great epidemic, bringing you the story of how Alibaba launched Taobao during SARS, and how it expanded its online business while its headquarters were quarantined.  This article was translated and abridged…