With over 57 million people in 15 cities across China on lockdown, the Coronavirus crisis is hitting the retail, travel and tourism industries particularly hard during the peak Lunar New Year season.

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You may have been here before: Payday is a week away, and you have an unexpected expense that leaves you short of cash, what if you could use a mobile app to access the money you’ve earned at your job, but which has not yet been paid?

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Millions of people in China have begun travelling from major cities to their smaller hometowns for celebrating the 2020 Lunar New Year with their families. The epic travel rush, billed as the world's largest annual human migration, started a few days ago and is expected to last 40 days until February 18.

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Chinese New Year is peak season in terms of movie releases in China. It accounts for a significant chunk in local and global box-office collections. With the recent cancellation of film releases in China due to the Wuhan virus outbreak, the global box office could see a massive decline in income, throwing early estimates for a stellar film year out the window.

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Gucci, Nike, Sephora, Adidas, H&M, Kate Spade and LV. What do all these brands have in common? They’re all geared up for taking you away from your ang pow collections during this Chinese New Year season.

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Gone are the days when kids in school were told videogames are a waste of time and should be kept off school grounds. The wildly popular Fortnite just officially became a high school and college sport, and the response has been incredibly positive. 

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Schools in the US have a problem. A smartphone problem. Smartphones have long been a bane for teachers as they are a distraction during classes. Some schools in the US have banned them outright while some have came up with ‘smart’er ways to deal with it. But now they have another issue, dealing with students with anxiety issues. This is the world we live in.

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It seems like everyone is interested in digital detoxes and lowering screen time, from the Silicon Valley investors who are ‘dopamine fasting,’ to tech executives who raise their kids tech-free. Now Google is getting in on the trend. The internet company has introduced three new screen time apps as part of its Digital Wellbeing Experiments.

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Many countries are facing an aging population crisis. Senior citizens are having to keep working way past the usual retirement age, and the development of townships outside capital cities are stifled thanks to lack of work and opportunities. Now, Malaysia faces those same problems as its population ages, and there aren’t enough urban hubs for young people to work in. 

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Netflix had the largest share of happy employees in the US in 2019, a survey by the anonymous-professional-networking app, Blind, found. Blind, which requires a work-email address to verify employment at a company, surveyed more than 10,000 of its 3 million users in the US during the month of December, to see how happy they were in their workplaces, and whether they felt they had grown in their careers in the last year.

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