Already navigating the coronavirus pandemic and the worst invasion of desert locusts for more than 25 years, parts of East Africa are now being devastated by flooding.
As the stock market falls to historic lows and governments are coming to the rescue in the form of bailouts and subsidies, the practice of stock buyback is facing extra scrutiny.
The departure of Jack Ma, who retired as Alibaba's executive chairman in September, comes as he pulls back from formal business roles to focus on philanthropy.
With the summer holidays fast approaching after several months of isolation measures, many of us are wondering when we will return to the skies and what that experience might look like.
Research shows China still needs to catch up in the areas of artificial intelligence, jet engines as well as semi-conductor manufacturing and design capability, but the U.S. cannot rest on its laurels, experts warn.
The ad tech space is so convoluted, it's easy to make money from legitimate advertisers just by setting up a web page. That means there's significant incentive to create garbage — not just low-quality clickbait, but sites filled with outright plagiarized content.
In separate, stark warnings, two major European leaders have bluntly told their citizens that the world needs to adapt to living with the coronavirus and cannot wait to be saved by the development of a vaccine.
The future of the road racing industry hangs in the balance as the coronavirus has forced widespread race cancellations, with billions of dollars and thousands of jobs on the line.
The Trump administration on Friday moved to block global chip supplies to blacklisted telecoms equipment company Huawei Technologies, spurring fears of Chinese retaliation.
It's not too late for the United States – driven by the cutting-edge capabilities of its technology companies – to leverage the coronavirus tragedy into a historic opportunity.