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Agricultural Negotiations – Could restarting agricultural negotiations save Doha? (Joanna Hewitt, East Asia Forum)

Political level interest in reforming and restoring the weakened rules-based trading system is overdue, as argued recently on East Asia Forum. Language from the APEC Trade Ministers and G7...

USA – Pastors Often Discussed Election, Pandemic and Racism in Fall of 2020 (Pew Research Center)

Religious belief is key to many Americans’ political identities, but the public is divided on whether clergy should preach about politics from the pulpit. So, when...

Earth from Space – Gulf of Martaban (ESA)

The Gulf of Martaban, an arm of the Andaman Sea located in southern Myanmar, is featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2...

Space – How does satellite communication work? ROBert explains all! (ESA)

Trying to explain satellite communication to children is no easy task, so why not let robot host ROBert help? In the third of the...

TechInnovation – Kurly, the Korean grocery startup, raises $200M on a $2.2B valuation after shifting IPO plans away from the NYSE (Ingrid Lunden, TechCrunch)

  Online grocery startups around the world continue to pull in major investment, underscoring how much they have all grown especially in the last year...

TechInnovation – Germany’s VC industry is ready to take off, but bureaucrats need to release the handbrake (Uwe Horstmann, TechCrunch)

The narrative suggests that Germany is lagging behind its European neighbors when it comes to building a globally competitive venture capital market. But I think...

TechInnovation – Temasek, Warburg Pincus, and Bhavish Aggarwal invest $500 million in Ola (Manish Singh, TechCrunch)

Temasek and an affiliate of Warburg Pincus are investing $500 million in Indian ride-hailing giant Ola, the Bangalore-headquartered startup said in a short statement...

TechInnovation – EU fines BMW, VW $1B for running emissions cartel since the 90s (Rebecca Bellan, TechCrunch)

As environmental issues really came of age in the 1990s, certain German automakers were meeting in secret groups to make sure their cars would...

TechInnovation – Halo will launch a remotely operated car service powered by 5G in Las Vegas (Aria Alamalhodaei, TechCrunch)

5G technology has generated a lot of hype for its potential to power driverless cars using a remote operator, but for the past few...

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