TikTok users respond to India ban
TikTok was one of 59 apps, including Chinese messaging platform WeChat and mobile browser UC Browser, banned by the Indian government Monday for posing a...
Kim Kardashian West’s KKW cosmetics line is worth $1 billion
After buying Kylie Jenner's beauty business last January, Coty (COTY) announced on Monday that it would acquire a 20% stake in KKW, Kim Kardashian West's...
Hong Kong is about to be governed by a law most residents have never seen. And it’s already having an effect
According to reports in Communist Party-controlled media, the law is expected to criminalize offenses such as secession, subversion against the central Chinese government, terrorism, and...
India bans TikTok and 58 other apps as tensions with China escalate
India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said in a statement Monday that it had received many complaints about misuse and transmission of user data...
India locust: New Delhi on high alert after desert locusts swarm through neighboring Gurgaon
The insects swept through the city at 11.30 a.m. local time (2 a.m. ET), Atul Kapur, the founder of a social enterprise who lives in...
The hard truth about the Facebook ad boycott: Nothing matters but Zuckerberg
But in recent days, Facebook has looked a little less invincible. The social network is confronting a new pressure campaign from advertisers unlike anything in...
Jamaica’s governor-general suspends personal use of royal insignia over ‘offending image’
Governor-General Sir Patrick Allen, the British monarchy's representative in Jamaica, made the announcement on Friday. Allen said he is suspending the personal use of the...
India coronavirus: Nation opens of one of the world’s largest hospitals
The Sardar Patel COVID Care Centre, the largest facility of its kind in India, became partly operational on Sunday, with 2,000 of its 10,000 beds...
England goes to the beach and parties like there’s no pandemic
The British government has pleaded with the public to continue observing social distancing guidelines after thousands packed England's beaches on Thursday and thousands more celebrated...
China opened an embassy on a tiny, remote Pacific island during the pandemic. Here’s why
The opening of a Chinese embassy on Kiribati, a nation of 33 atolls and reef islands in the central Pacific, might have seemed strange --...