Traditional sellers in Vietnam still aren’t sold on e-commerce

30 October 2024 at 05:00

In Hanoi’s historic Dong Xuan Market, stalls are filled with clothes, shoes and souvenirs. Sellers sit around chatting, or play on their phones as an occasional tourist wanders about, a...

Amazon launched a program for Indian handicrafts. Local artisans say it’s not working

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By: Nipun Prabhakar

28 October 2024 at 05:00

When Shakil Khatri first heard about Amazon Karigar in 2018, he thought it might be what he had been looking for. Khatri, a sixth-generation artisan, is one of the few...

Maji Khan Mutwa showing his Instagram profile with 29.8k followers. He has to keep the phone at this angle to get enough signals from the mobile network so he can open his account.

Mexican TikTokers have code words to report on narco-violence without getting banned

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By: Daniela Dib

24 October 2024 at 05:00

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...

Myanmar residents struggle to overcome severe internet blackouts with Starlink

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By: Nu Nu Lusan

23 October 2024 at 05:00

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....

India’s electric cab companies can’t find enough cars to put on the road

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

22 October 2024 at 05:00

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...

A local ride-hailing service can’t beat Uber and Bolt, so its drivers are beating up their rivals

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By: Ray Mwareya

21 October 2024 at 05:00

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...

Meet the mothers in small-town Hungary leading a fight against Chinese EV battery plants

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By: Yvonne Lau

18 October 2024 at 05:00

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.

What are you wearing? Rest of World’s fashion quiz

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By: Rest of World

17 October 2024 at 05:00

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...

The Catholic Church condemned Santa Muerte. TikTokers gave her a makeover

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By: Chantal Flores

17 October 2024 at 05:00

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 most popular payment app in the Philippines has a side bet: online gambling

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By: Patrick Kho

16 October 2024 at 05:00

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...

WhatsApp vigilantes in India are converting Christians by force

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By: Parth MN

15 October 2024 at 05:00

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’s migrant delivery workers find safety in numbers

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By: Rest of World

15 October 2024 at 04:55

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...

TikTok wants to turn millions of Americans into paid shopping influencers

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By: Viola Zhou and Peiyue Wu

14 October 2024 at 05:00

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...

Philippine chipmakers are embracing automation — and leaving low-skilled workers behind

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By: Michael Beltran

8 October 2024 at 05:00

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)

Instagram helps Brazilians dodge a national sales ban on vapes

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By: Pedro Nakamura

7 October 2024 at 05:00

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...

In one of the squares near his workplace in Rio de Janeiro, Bernardo takes advantage of his break to smoke a vape.

Dozens of police influencers are running for office in Brazil

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By: Matheus Andrade and Daniela Dib

4 October 2024 at 06:57

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.

Quiz: Can you guess where these tiny cars, EVs, and mopeds were made?

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By: Rest of World

4 October 2024 at 05:00

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...

Xiaohongshu has revolutionized Chinese tourism in Southeast Asia

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By: Zhaoyin Feng

3 October 2024 at 05:00

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...

How Presto became Libya’s most successful tech startup

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By: Ibrahim Al-Mukhtar Al-Sanussi and Damilare Dosunmu

2 October 2024 at 05:00

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....

Apple manufacturers moved from China to Vietnam. Now they’re desperate for workers

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By: Lam Le

1 October 2024 at 05:00

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...

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