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OPINION

The tragic misbehaviour of big business

Oped, Published on 07/10/2022

» Are successful businesspeople more like heroes or villains? In fictional accounts, one can find plenty of examples of each, from Charles Dickens's miserly Ebenezer Scrooge to Ayn Rand's rugged individualist entrepreneur John Galt. In F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan represents privileged old money, with its ruthlessness and incapacity for empathy, whereas Jay Gatsby is a self-made millionaire with no shortage of sentimentality and idealism.

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TECH

Japan opens biggest e-sports park to level up competitive gaming

Life, Published on 27/04/2022

» Japan's largest e-sports park opened last week, with proponents hoping it will help transform the country behind video game classics such as Super Mario and Zelda into a champion that can take on China in competitive gaming.

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TECH

Beware of TikTok snooping on your phone's data

Life, James Hein, Published on 02/03/2022

» If you didn't already know, TikTok is potentially dangerous. The app bypasses both Apple and Google protections and is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. According to reports, the app passes all your data back to servers in China, including unposted information and the contents of your phone. The app also has many security vulnerabilities allowing hackers to take over your phone. This is in addition to the expansion of your digital footprint across the planet. In China, people are rewarded for posting serious videos like those showing them using a chemistry set. Those outside China are rewarded for the dumbest presentations. I'll let the readers work this last one out for themselves.

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BUSINESS

Restoring respect

Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 07/06/2021

» Patama Chantaruck still remembers an unsettling encounter she experienced during her early days of living in the United States 28 years ago.

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BUSINESS

The Risk of trade secret misappropriation during work-from-home arrangements

Published on 05/08/2020

» While we've all seen how quickly life has changed during the pandemic, from a business and HR angle the possibility of intellectual property misappropriation and theft occasioned by work-from-home policies may not yet be clear to many. With many employees working outside their company's normal IT security fence, their increased use of their own computers and devices instead of those in their offices with standard or enhanced security mechanisms has made it more challenging for employers to control access to key business information.

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WORLD

Korea adds 505 cases, deaths top 2,800: Virus update

Published on 27/02/2020

» Saudi Arabia halted religious visits that draw millions to cities including Mecca and Medina, while Japan asked for all schools to shut from March 2. More new cases were reported outside China than within the country for the first time, highlighting the spread of the epidemic.

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BUSINESS

Tech veteran turns focus to Thailand 4.0

Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 07/12/2019

» Being sincere to build trust, staying positive, pushing boundaries and having a long-term plan are aspects of the philosophy that has cast Dhanawat Suthumpun, managing director of Microsoft Thailand, as one of the leaders of a local tech industry in which he has had a hand for more than 25 years.

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BUSINESS

Jack Ma plays coy about self-driving plans

Business, Published on 21/04/2018

» Alibaba supremo Jack Ma has disclosed that the company is starting work on autonomous technology, but he did not mention when or how the company plans to roll it out in Southeast Asia.

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WORLD

Worldwide cyberattack demands ransoms, cripples UK hospitals

Associated Press, Published on 13/05/2017

» LONDON - Britain's health service was hit Friday by a huge international cyberattack that froze computers at hospitals across the country - an attack that shut down wards, closed emergency rooms and brought medical treatments to a screeching halt.

BUSINESS

The US vs Apple and Microsoft: makings of a perfect storm

Business, Tilleke & Gibbins International Ltd, Published on 01/04/2016

» In February, a US court in California issued an order to Apple that was equivalent to a magnitude 9 earthquake striking Silicon Valley. It told Apple to write code to bypass a security feature to allow a brute-force password attack by the FBI to unlock an iPhone used by one of the terrorists killed by police after the San Bernardino attack in December 2015.