COVID-19 became a full-on pandemic this March 11. According to the World Health Organization, recorded cases spiked from 87,137 on March 1 to 679,977 as of March 29. Who would have thought that this month would leave a lot of us confined to our homes, boxed in by the rules…

Exactly a week ago, I performed for an audience of 60,000 people in Hangzhou’s Olympic Sports Stadium. Yes, l was basically Arianna Grande, or Ali-anna as I joke to myself. Except, I’m not a pop star. I am however a 5-month old employee of Alibaba and last week was our…

First a backgrounder. June 6. The internet blows up with #ShopeeScam when fans of K-Pop band Blackpink are denied entry to a concert they supposedly won tickets for. Watch this summary because you can’t make this thing up and I certainly can’t tell it better than this clip from One…

Yes, I did. Back in 2011, I went on record and told the BBC exactly that. You see, the 28-year-old me had it all figured out. If all the educated and passionate young people stayed in the country, we could work together, reverse the brain drain and come up with…