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THE holiday season brings a surge in online shopping as people hunt for Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Christmas deals. This rush doesn’t go unnoticed by hackers; online breaching attempts spike around these dates, with phishing scams and fraud schemes sharply increasing. According to Forbes, October and November tend to be the most productive months […]

  THE second China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE) will run from Tuesday to Saturday in Beijing. As the world’s first national-level exhibition focusing on supply chains, the expo will gather industry leaders and experts from around the world and help promote global co-operation in industrial and supply chains. The following is an overview of

CHINESE President Xi Jinping last Monday said that China is ready to work with all parties to build a just world of common development, and outlined China’s eight actions for global development. Xi made the remarks at Session I of the 19th G20 Summit on Fight Against Hunger and Poverty. In his speech entitled “Building

GLOBAL outrage over the steady rise of the death toll and misery in Gaza, the West Bank and now Lebanon, has failed to bring about a ceasefire. Many who had pinned their hopes on prominent international institutions to find a way, some way, to halt 14 months of Israeli military “shock and awe” in the

THE world, at times, can be utterly exhausting. We can sometimes feel like we are constantly giving up parts of ourselves to the world while we receive nothing in return. Every human action takes a certain amount of energy and thought to power it. Actions that are made with the hope of creating large impacts

Geopolitical tensions are rising, with the United States and some other Western countries criticizing China for its rising trade surplus against other countries and its so-called industrial overcapacity. These issues are but snapshots of the broader structural challenges facing the global economy. Amid the sluggish global economic recovery, uneven technological innovation and supply chain disruptions,

The fundamental driving force in the new era is the overarching collective rise of the Global South and their claim to global governance The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and G20 summits are being held successively in Peru and Brazil this month in the backdrop of continuing bloc confrontation and Donald Trump’s re-election as president of the

By Vanessa Cort FROM the time the President announced the $200,000 cash disbursement to every household in the country, Georgetown was abuzz. And the comments have been many and varied. Some market vendors on Water Street were complaining that it is not enough. “De government can do better dan dat”, one vendor shouted, while others

THERE was a Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul-type showdown that happen in the world of news and information and it had weighty implications even for Guyanese far from the action. There were no knock-out punches and no clear winner, but those who relied on social media platforms for their daily intake of world news certainly