China’s manufacturing plunged in February by an even wider margin than expected after efforts to contain a virus outbreak shut down much of the world’s second-largest economy, an official surveyed Continue Reading
South Korea reported more than 800 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, the most of any country caught up in the epidemic, as China said it crossed a key threshold in Continue Reading
Official gauges of China’s factory and nonfactory activity plunged to record lows in February as the nation’s economy struggled to resume normal production as it faced the coronavirus epidemic. The Continue Reading
The outbreak has demonstrated the “huge potential” of remote work, said Kuan Chen, founder and chief executive of Beijing-based medical AI company Infervision. Infervision’s AI is being used in imaging Continue Reading
Manufacturing activity in China plunged in February, exceeding its collapse during the global financial crisis of 2008, according to one of the first official economic indicators published since the coronavirus Continue Reading
New cases in three U.S. states raise prospect of local, person-to-person spread. Troubling new signs of how the coronavirus is spreading in the United States emerged on Friday, as cases Continue Reading
When the coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, residents in a rising suburb on the city’s rural edge thought they were safe. Zuoling New Town, a bustling community of retired farmers, factory Continue Reading
The purchasing managers’ index (PMI) for China’s manufacturing sector stood at 35.7 in February, down from 50 in January, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Saturday. A reading above Continue Reading
As China’s battle with the novel coronavirus continues, Beijing is also strengthening preventive and control measures as the capital is seeing workers return to work. On Thursday, Beijing reported 12 Continue Reading
When it comes to climate change, television news is covering little more than the tip of the iceberg. That’s according to a just-released report from Media Matters for America, which Continue Reading
