“Due to adjustments to hiring plans on some tech teams, a number of roles at Shopee are no longer available. We are working closely to support those affected,” a company representative said. The move follows other recent job cuts at Sea. Staff at Booyah!, a gaming livestream app, which isContinue Reading
JAMSHORO, Pakistan: Pakistan was scrambling on Tuesday (Sep 6) to widen a breach in its biggest lake and prevent the waters from overflowing to swamp nearby towns, so worsening unprecedented floods that have inundated a third of the South Asian nation. Waters brought by record monsoon rains and melting glaciersContinue Reading
As waste collection and management issues persist in Cambodia’s major cities, a resident steps up to take out the trash
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TAIPEI: The combat skills of Taiwan’s military are now “more mature” and it is better able to fight thanks to having to repeatedly scramble to see off Chinese forces during their recent drills, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Tuesday (Sep 6). China staged war games in the immediate aftermath ofContinue Reading
New funds brings MVPâs total amount for Fund 1 to US$55 million
Firm has completed 30 investments across SEA, India since 2019 M Venture Partners (MVP), an early-stage venture capital (VC) fund based in Singapore has closed a follow-on vehicle to continue to back emerging winners in their portfolio.
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BEIJING: Rescuers scoured through rubble for hundreds of missing people in parts of southwestern China on Tuesday (Sep 6) after an earthquake killed more than 60, as local weather services warned rain was set to inundate the area. The magnitude 6.6 quake hit about 43km southeast of the city ofContinue Reading
SEOUL – Kim Tae-geun walked into the cinema this weekend expecting comedy. He left deeply moved. “The movie theater was full of young boys and girls laughing a lot,” said the South Korean special forces veteran. “They were silent and some of them were crying at the end of the movie.” The film he watched, […]
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JAKARTA: Thousands of people were expected to join demonstrations across Indonesia on Tuesday (Sep 6), police and union leaders said, as anger mounts over the government’s hiking of the price of subsidised fuel in Southeast Asia’s largest economy. Under pressure to control a ballooning energy subsidy budget, President Joko WidodoContinue Reading
The Directorate associated with Enforcement said it had conducted lookup operations under the country’s anti-money-laundering act. Work raids came several days after India’s Our elected representatives raised the case associated with Chinese loan applications in India. Read full story Continue Reading
As we enter what promises to be a tough autumn, here are eight reasons to be cheerful – or at least to consider political and economic outcomes that are less bleak than those you may be fearing. With economic warfare squarely under way between Russia and the West, with energy price-shocks all around us and […]
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