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Didi is still growing.Image: Hwee Young/Epa/REX/Shutterstock Lulu Yilun Chen for Bloomberg 2017-04-28 14:03:23 UTC Ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing raised more than $5.5 billion from investors, scoring the largest round of funding ever for a technology company to bankroll an expansion…

Image: Tomertu/Shutterstock By Kellen Beck2017-04-19 18:15:12 UTC The Olympic Council of Asia announced Monday night that esports will be an official medal sport at the 2022 Asian Games in China, which means esports are one step closer to being featured…

Yet another case of designers making expensive versions of cheap things.  No matter which way you look at them, there’s no denying these Rihanna x Puma Fenty Jelly Slides look exactly like the cheap plastic sandals found just about everywhere…

Airbnb is pushing Trips hard, and further into more countries in Asia. The San Francisco-based company on Monday launched Trips across two new cities in the region, Singapore and Bangkok. This brings the Trips to four cities in Asia, including…

While the 2030s might be owned by missions to Mars, the 2020s belong to the moon. A number of companies and nations are now planning to send crewed and uncrewed missions to the vicinity of the moon in the coming…

Tokyo’s city government is seeking to install universal-use toilets for all genders in Olympic and Paralympic venues, according to the Asahi Shimbun.  The city, which will host the upcoming 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, will consider building at least one unisex…

A street performer dressed up as a traditional Indonesian ghost popularly known as “kuntilanak”, waits for tourists to pose for a photo with him for a small tip in Jakarta.Image: Alangkara/AP/REX/Shutterstock By Yi Shu Ng2017-02-10 10:11:12 UTC It certainly makes…

You probably can’t bear to look at this. Visitors to a Beijing drive-by wildlife park narrowly escaped the claws of black bears after they swarmed a white hatchback on Feb. 26th. The car was driving through Badaling Wildlife World —…

World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva displays her ticket as she travels in the ladies compartment of a local train during her visit to Mumbai.Image: SOLANKI/EPA/REX/Shutterstock By Sohini Mitter2017-03-01 08:17:31 -0500 World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva had a taste of the…