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Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia changes import rules from Gulf in challenge to UAE (Al Jazeera)

Saudi Arabia has amended its rules on imports from other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to exclude goods made in free zones or using...

Taiwan/China – Taiwan’s China dependency is a double-edged sword (Roy C Lee, Chung-Hua, East Asia Forum)

Taiwan’s remarkable economic performance in 2020 is something to celebrate given most countries globally plunged into recession because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Taiwan’s GDP...

ASEAN – Reducing ASEAN’s trade compliance costs (Sithanonxay Suvannaphakdy, East Asia Forum)

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted regional trade flows and highlighted the importance of facilitating goods trade among ASEAN member states. In March, the World...

TechInnovation – Unequal justice: A spatial analysis of unsolved homicides (Esri)

Lauren Scott Griffin Ankita Bakshi Flora Vale Those are the findings from analyses conducted by The Washington Post using homicide data collected for cities across America. In some...

TechInnovation – Obviously AI, a no code startup for data analysts, increases its seed round to $4.7M (Catherine Shu, TechCrunch)

Nirman Dave’s two startups are very different, but both have a DIY spirit. The first, called CircuiTricks and founded during his gap year after...

TechInnovation – Why former Alibaba scientist wants to back founders outside the Ivory Tower (Rita Liao, TechCrunch)

Min Wanli had a career path much coveted by those pursuing a career in computer science. A prodigy, Min was accepted to a top...

TechInnovation/India – E-commerce logistics startup Locad gets $4.9M seed round led by Sequoia Capital India’s Surge (Catherine Shu, TechCrunch)

E-commerce is booming in Southeast Asia, but in many markets, the fragmented logistics industry is struggling to catch up. This means sellers run into...

TechInnovation – Tinybird turns raw data into realtime API at scale (Romain Dillet, TechCrunch)

Meet Tinybird, a new startup that helps developers build data products at scale without having to worry about infrastructure, query time and all those annoying...

TechInnovation/Egypt – MaxAB, the Egyptian B2B food and grocery delivery startup, raises $40M for expansion (Tage Kene-Okafor, TechCrunch)

Globally, food and grocery delivery startups have been raising mega-rounds of late, especially those in Europe as the pandemic has given rise to more...

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