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Hubei Province in China has picked Ping An Smart City, a technology company under the Ping An Group, to assist in building its one-stop public health emergency management platform. The company specifically won the bid for the public health emergency command system project under the Hubei Provincial Healthcare Big Data…

During an all-hands meeting on June 17, ByteDance’s newly-appointed CEO Liang Rubo unveiled results of an internal survey regarding the company’s so-called ‘big week/small week’ policy, a type of scheduling that requires employees to work one Sunday every two weeks, with double pay on the extra workday. The company-wide poll…

Source: Weibo The one-stop international logistics online service platform YunQuNa announced that it has landed a new round of financing led by CITIC Capital, followed by Xianghe Capital and its shareholders. The overall financing in its D1 round adds up to 150 million US dollars, setting a new record for…

Digital reconstruction of the new Mesozoic bird fossil skeleton (scale bar: 10 mm). Credit: Min Wang Researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered a 120-million-year-old partial fossil skeleton of a tiny extinct bird that fits in the palm of…

Navigation for News Categories Fonterra is selling a couple of its last assets in China. It is to sell two joint venture farms to a business controlled by Singapore-based Japfa for $US115.5 million (NZ$163.4m). Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell Photo: RNZ / Dan Cook Fonterra owns 51 percent of the…

SAN FRANCISCO and SUZHOU, China, June 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovent Biologics, Inc. (Innovent) (HKEX: 01801), a world-class biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and commercializes high-quality medicines for the treatment of cancer, metabolic, autoimmune and other major diseases today announced that the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) of China has approved…

SINGAPORE—At least 10 of the 26 doctors in Indonesia who died from Covid-19 this month had received both doses of the vaccine developed by Sinovac Biotech Ltd., a medical association said, raising questions about the Chinese-made shot that is being used in many parts of the developing world. The Indonesian…

What Happened: NIKE, Inc. reported financial results for its fiscal 2021 fourth quarter and the full year ending May 31, 2021. According to the report, fourth-quarter reported revenues were $12.3 billion, up 96 percent compared to the prior year and increasing 21 percent over the same period in 2019. For…

Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights' channel, which published nearly 11,000 videos on YouTube totaling over 120 million views has been blocked for violating policy (Adds background on activist, quote, details on videos' content, links to related stories on Xinjiang) By Victoria Waldersee and Paresh Dave June 25 (Reuters) - A human…

Wearing a baseball cap and knee-length traditional Gho robe, carrying a backpack, Bhutan’s king has walked through jungles infested with leeches and snakes, trekked mountains and quarantined several times in a hotel in the capital. For 14 months, King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, has been travelling by foot, car and…