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X testing 'adult content' groups for users
Bloomberg News, Published on 29/03/2024
» SAN FRANCISCO - X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, is testing a feature that lets users create or join communities focused on "adult content" or other "not safe for work" material.
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Singapore orders Israel to remove 'unacceptable' online post
Bloomberg News, Published on 26/03/2024
» SINGAPORE - Singapore has ordered the Israel Embassy to take down an "insensitive and inappropriate" social media post that could undermine security in the city-state, in the latest test of traditionally warm ties between the two nations.
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Singapore builds AI model to 'represent' Southeast Asians
Bloomberg News, Published on 08/02/2024
» SINGAPORE - Like millions worldwide, Southeast Asians have been trying out large language models (LLMs) such as Meta's Llama 2 and Mistral AI - but in their native Bahasa Indonesia or Thai. The result has usually been gibberish in English.
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China, Singapore to start mutual visa-free entry on Feb 9
Bloomberg News, Published on 25/01/2024
» SINGAPORE - Citizens from China and Singapore can visit the other without needing a visa starting Feb 9, as the world’s second-largest economy ramps up efforts to encourage more cross-border exchanges.
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What happened to all those Chinese tourists?
Bloomberg News, Published on 29/07/2023
» Before Covid-19, Malaysia’s luxury mall beneath Kuala Lumpur’s iconic Petronas Towers echoed with the sound of Chinese tourists and their dialects. But recently, during a busy dinner hour, they were missing. Din, the mall’s outlet of famous Taiwanese chain Din Tai Fung, a favourite of Chinese tourists, was half-full with local Malaysians and Middle Eastern customers. When I asked a cashier whether they had served many Chinese lately, she shook her head with a tight smile.
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Musk explains why he’s dumping Twitter name, iconic bird logo
Bloomberg News, Published on 25/07/2023
» LOS ANGELES: Elon Musk has explained his decision to strip Twitter of its famous blue-bird logo as a move to remake the business into a broad platform for communications and financial transactions, a target he’s described as the everything app.
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Alibaba injects $845m into SE Asia unit Lazada
Bloomberg News, Published on 20/07/2023
» SINGAPORE: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd injected US$845 million into Lazada, its online retail business in Southeast Asia that is facing intensifying competition from rivals such as Sea Ltd and Amazon.com Inc.
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China travel rebound bets turn toward airports
Bloomberg News, Published on 23/03/2023
» SINGAPORE: Investors hoping to cash in on a boom in Chinese travel after nearly three years of coronavirus pandemic lockdowns are shifting into airports, hotels and duty-free operators and away from airlines subject to fluctuating fuel prices and more intense competition.
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Star banker’s disappearance surprises even China’s state lenders
Bloomberg News, Published on 21/02/2023
» NEW YORK: The disappearance of Chinese banker Bao Fan has come as a surprise to even some of his state-owned lenders, several of which are asking his firm for more information as they assess their exposure, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Vietnam succession battle heats up after president’s ouster
Bloomberg News, Published on 20/01/2023
» HANOI: Over the past few years, Vietnamese Communist Party Chief Nguyen Phu Trong has won praise from investors for removing corrupt officials. Now as some big names fall, it is becoming clear his campaign serves another purpose: strengthening his hand in choosing a successor.
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