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Over the last few months, food delivery apps have faced heat for charging steep commissions of 30 to 40 per cent, eating into hawkers’ already-thin margins as they struggle to survive in light of the dining-in ban. Commission fees also serve as a barrier that is currently preventing hawkers from …

Welcome to the weekend. It’s the unofficial start of summer in the U.S., though we will toast it without the usual barbecues and get-togethers. Many beaches are open, so we can enjoy the salt and sea once again. Whatever you are doing, I hope that the sun reaches you and …

“I met Ben [Van Handel] at a lab at the University of Southern California while I was still in medical school,” Amir Nobakht tells me. It was a chance meeting between the would-be orthopedic surgeon and stem cell scientist. The USC researchers were looking for solutions to arthritis, and more …