Time for multinationals to change their record on Asia
The warning lights are blinking on the dashboard of the world economy. Germany has slashed its economic outlook for the next two years, predicting negative growth in 2022. Britain is also forecasting contractions as it struggles to stay on top of skyrocketing bond yields. Inflation in the US is at a four-decade high, and the […]Continue Reading
Hun Sen’s French legal foray backfires
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen thought that by bringing charges of defamation against me in Paris he could silence criticism of his regime from abroad. The venture has had the opposite effect, with the court rejecting his claims on October 10. The prime minister brought the case against me in response to my public statements […]Continue Reading
New discoveries on human origins open up new possibilities
Discoveries in the fields of human origins, paleoanthropology, cognitive science, and behavioral biology have accelerated in the past few decades. We occasionally bump into news reports that new findings have revolutionary implications for how humanity lives today, but the information for the most part is still packed obscurely in the worlds of science and academia. […]Continue Reading
South Korea kicks off military drills amid talk of North Korean nuclear test
SEOUL: South Korea’s troops kicked off their annual Hoguk defence drills on Monday (Oct 17), designed to boost their ability to respond to North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats amid simmering tension over both sides’ military activities. The drills, due to end on Saturday, are the latest in a seriesContinue Reading
Thailand is using royal defamation laws to silence its people, but it won’t succeed
Since 2020, at least 215 people, including 17 minors, have been charged with breaking Thailand’s controversial lèse-majesté law
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Kakao outage sparks calls for regulatory scrutiny of South Korea’s top chat app
SEOUL: Shares of South Korea’s Kakao Corp plunged on Monday (Oct 17) after a widespread outage in the country’s largest mobile chat app triggered a sharp political backlash and calls for increased scrutiny of the company’s market dominance. The outage was caused by a fire at a data centre south ofContinue Reading
Kakao shares slump after widespread service outage
SEOUL: Shares in South Korea’s Kakao plunged more than 9 per cent on Monday (Oct 17) after a fire at a data centre south of Seoul damaged servers on the weekend, causing an extensive service outage in the country’s main chat app. The outage of the chat app, predominantly usedContinue Reading
Yayasan Peneraju, airasia academy to nurture tech talents
Aims to increase chances of employability amongst B40 community
To make education in tech more inclusive, accessible and relevant Yayasan Peneraju Pendidikan Bumiputera (Yayasan Peneraju) has teamed up airasia academy to help stigmatised minorities increase their chances of employability by equipping them with the relevant knowledge and marketable skills in the technology-driven…Continue Reading
Singapore’s digital wealth platform Endowus acquires Hong Kong’s Carret Private
SINGAPORE: Singapore-based digital wealth advisor Endowus has acquired a majority stake in Hong Kong-based wealth manager and multi-family office Carret Private Investments Limited, it announced on Monday (Oct 17). With the acquisition, total assets under management of the Endowus group – comprising Endowus’ licensed companies in Singapore and Hong Kong,Continue Reading
Chip war policy hurting US firms more than China
On October 7, the US Department of Commerce expanded licensing requirements for exports of advanced semiconductors and the equipment that’s used to make them to cover all shipments to China and not just shipments to particular companies. The share prices of companies expected to be affected had already dropped, discounting previously announced sanctions and the […]Continue Reading