On September 9, Delilah Barajas, who reviews TV shows and horror movies on TikTok, ditched her usual content to talk about a real-life suspenseful scenario: the showdown between cartel members...
In Myanmar’s northern Kachin state, Seng had struggled with internet shutdowns and low bandwidth since the military coup of 2021. Then came the blocks on social media platforms including Facebook....
Rahul Mathur has sworn by BluSmart since its early days. The electric-taxi rideshare company was his preferred choice for the daily commute as a startup founder in Delhi two years...
In July, Progress, a used-clothes trader, disembarked from his bus at Pretoria’s main station. The night was dark, and he knew that violent assault was a serious risk in the...
Eva Kozma watched as excavators raked up clouds of dust and flatbed trucks shuttled steel beams across a bustling construction site on the outskirts of a tranquil Hungarian village. A...
Eva Kozma (left) and Vera Csuvarszki (right) are co-founders of the Mikepércs Mothers for the Environment organization.
The internet has transformed the way the world shops, as fast fashion behemoths challenge traditional retailers and influencers supercharge new trends. Let’s see how well you know the global fashion...
On the eighth day of her journey across the Sonoran desert in the summer of 2004, Jessica Maribel Morales collapsed. She was trying to make it from Mexico to the...
The first time that Ana, a Filipino housewife, visited a gambling platform on her mobile phone, she was only looking to unwind for a little while. Soon, she was spending...
It was the day of his mother’s funeral, but Jaldhar Kashyap knew the dozens of people descending on his home weren’t there to offer condolences. When his mother was diagnosed...
South Africa has long been a hub for migrants and refugees, who come from neighboring countries seeking opportunities in Africa’s strongest economy. But the country is also notorious for high...
Brandy Leigh, a 50-year-old mother of six in Indiana, was looking for a career that would allow her to work from home. After raising children for most of her adult...
The Philippines has long been a hub for semiconductor manufacturing services — largely assembly, testing, and packaging. Now, the government is keen to go up the value chain with increased...
BINZHOU, CHINA - APRIL 1, 2024 - A worker is producing semiconductor products for export to Europe and the United States at a production line of a semiconductor manufacturer in Binzhou, East China's Shandong province, April 1, 2024. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
On August 3, Love Disk, a tobacco and liquor shop, posted an ad of a saleswoman holding three vapes up to the camera on Instagram. “The little beloved ones have...
When he’s not chasing after criminals in São Paulo’s dangerous neighborhoods, police lieutenant Flavio Goncalves da Costa is busy discussing his risky operations on police-themed shows on YouTube. The shows...
Military police patrol Parque Alegria favela during a joint public security operation to install a Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) in Caju, a newly pacified favela in the city's North Zone.
What you drive, or are driven in, depends on where in the world you are, and there’s seemingly never been such a profusion of flavors of how to get around...
At 5 a.m., the air around Ijen volcano in eastern Java, Indonesia, is thick with bright yellow smoke. Undeterred, young Chinese tourists don gas masks and flock to the rim...
In September, Ammar Hmid, the founder and CEO of Presto, celebrated a new milestone for his delivery company in Libya: The startup had surpassed 23,000 orders in a single day....
For Apple suppliers in Vietnam, the end of summer is recruitment season. In the months ahead of the busy holiday shopping rush, companies like Luxshare and Foxconn try to fill...
After watching Coco, the Disney-Pixar film that depicts the Day of the Dead festival in Mexico, Zhang Xin was inspired to do something to help people in China pay their...
When Aravind first saw the 3.5-meter-tall elephant waving its trunk at the Irinjadappilly Sree Krishna Temple in Thrissur, Kerala, he couldn’t believe that he was looking at a robot. “He...
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