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The use of artificial intelligence in job interviews is on the rise and experts share ways to ace your first encounter with a robot recruiter. 

China's trade surplus shrank to $13.8 billion in March, much narrower than the $52.05 billion forecast by analysts in a Reuters poll.

Singapore's Temasek Holdings and asset manager BlackRock will team up to invest in private companies that use technology to reduce carbon emissions.

Assets managed with environmental, social and governance considerations have soared and are set to double in Asia this year, said Elaine Wu of JPMorgan.

China's trade data for March is expected to be out at around 11:00 a.m. HK/SIN on Tuesday.

Maria Van Kerkhove, the agency's technical lead for Covid-19, said "we're in a critical point of the pandemic."

Monday's report says that PC sales are "historically" strong at the moment and that a work-from-home PC sales boom may not end as offices and schools reopen.

Jesse Powell, CEO of bitcoin exchange Kraken, said there "could be some crackdown" on cryptocurrencies.

Perhaps the most keenly-missed social hotspot — pubs — are able to welcome customers to their gardens on Monday.

Wall Street has been relatively quiet with the S&P 500 moving within 1% for five sessions in a row.

Microsoft acquired Nuance for $16 billion and has held recent talks to buy Discord and TikTok as Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon come under regulatory fire.

The deal will give Microsoft a foothold in health-care technology

Darktrace on Monday announced plans for an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange.

Earlier this year, Intel announced that it would invest $20 billion in new semiconductor factories, called fabs, in Arizona.

The coronavirus variant first discovered in South Africa is able to evade some of the protection of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to an Israeli study.

The pending Coinbase direct listing is exciting a broad base of the investment community outside the usual cryptocurrency crowd.

Cameron, who led the U.K. from 2010 to 2016, reportedly sent text messages about Greensill to ministers including Finance Minister Rishi Sunak.

The South Asian nation reported more than 168,000 new cases over a 24-hour period on Monday, according to health ministry data.

Former Unilever CEO Paul Polman has warned that the pandemic has pushed back sustainable development goals 20-30 years, in terms of exacerbating inequality. 

Uber has seen a pickup in demand for ride hailing lately, as states begin to relax their restrictions and roll out vaccines.