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If political crackdowns go through different stages, it might be said that Hong Kong last week entered the absurdist phase.It was only in No...

A year ago, if someone had predicted that Indian stock markets were heading towards their lifetime highs, most economists and brokers would...

In a study a few years ago about how people perceive facial movements, subjects were presented with photographs of pro tennis players who ha...

On March 8, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its long-awaited guidelines on the kinds of behaviors that are safe f...

Fashion companies have often been criticized for relying on low-paid workers in some of the world’s poorest countries to make their clothes....

For Meghan Markle’s heartache and despair, no drug could be prescribed. But, as British viewers found to their mystification, American TV ea...

Tech companies are leading the charge to power their operations with renewable energy. By the end of 2020, Amazon had moved to the front of...

The gig economy in Africa has grown significantly as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, serving as a stopgap for consumers when businesse...

In 2019, Virgin Galactic took the first small step for a space company—and a giant leap for global finance. It became a publicly traded comp...

When the UK officially left the European Union on Jan. 31, 2020 it put a lot of people out of a job—including Nigel Farage, the bombastic fo...

Good morning, Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowThe Derek Chauvin trial begins. The former police officer faces second-degree murde...

India Inc’s sentiment has recovered from the blues of the economic slump caused by the Covid-19 pandemic—and how.The Overall Business Confid...

The Indian government might not completely ban cryptocurrencies. In an interview on March 5, country’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman s...

“When women support other women, incredible things happen.” Sounds inspirational, doesn’t it? If you are a woman reading this, I wouldn’t fa...

The US and the European Commission have agreed to a four-month suspension of the retaliatory tariffs each implemented due to the long-runnin...

The Disneyland theme park could reopen as early as April 1 as new rules from California health officials in response to the ongoing coronavi...

Covid-19 was good for very few things. One of them is telehealth.Telehealth or telemedicine—two interchangeable terms for interacting with a...

The most groundbreaking aspect of telehealth isn’t the technology. It’s access.That’s not to discount the tech. Sure, soon a wearable device...

In response to the pandemic, healthcare systems around the world have brought down many of the regulatory barriers to telehealth. More patie...

Telehealth can, theoretically, make healthcare more accessible for people when circumstances (like a pandemic) make in-person visits difficu...

Early in February, former South African president Jacob Zuma issued a statement defying a Constitutional Court decision compelling him to ap...

Hi Quartz Africa readers!Liquid Telecom’s recent $620 million bond sale—one of the largest by an African telecoms company—should provide a b...

Tim Wu, a Columbia law professor who just became one of US president Joe Biden’s top antitrust advisors, thinks it’s time to crack down on...

Lynas has been described as both “tiny” and “small,” but as the world’s largest rare earths producer and processor outside of China, the Aus...

On a jaunt through the darker corners of the internet, a conspiracy-minded reader might come across a fake news story claiming that 5G cell...