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Bitcoin ETFs post longest run of inflows as token nears record
Bloomberg News, Published on 07/06/2024
» MUMBAI - United States exchange-traded funds investing directly in Bitcoin attracted net inflows for an unprecedented 18th straight day, a spurt of demand that has helped to lift the largest digital asset toward a record high.
Apps turning restaurant leftovers into cheap meals take off
Bloomberg News, Published on 13/08/2022
» With a tantalising array of satay chicken, wok-fried mud crab and chilled tiger prawns, the dinner buffet at Singapore’s Grand Hyatt hotel typically sets diners back about US$70. Those on a tighter budget and with an eye on sustainability can fill a box for a 10th of that price.
Crisis to crisis: What Asia learned from the financial chaos of 1997
Bloomberg News, Published on 02/07/2022
» Twenty-five years ago this month marked the beginning of economic, political and financial market turmoil that would become known as the Asian Financial Crisis. Currencies and stock markets tumbled. Governments were overthrown. Poverty rates soared.
Vietnam’s new drunk-driving law slashes beer sales
Bloomberg News, Published on 21/01/2020
» HANOI: Vietnam’s new get-tough-on-drunk-driving law is reining in one of the world’s fastest-growing beer markets.
Dolce & Gabbana China blunder rages on
Bloomberg News, Published on 22/11/2018
» SHANGHAI: Thousands of Dolce & Gabbana goods have been pulled from China’s biggest shopping websites and calls for a boycott of the brand are gaining traction as the uproar over the Italian fashion house’s Chinese advertising campaign grows.
Asia’s new growth leader takes over from fading tiger economies
Bloomberg News, Published on 26/01/2017
» MANILA - After years spent languishing behind its neighbours, the Philippines is finally catching up with its fellow Asian tiger economies as it posts some of the fastest growth rates in the world.
Billionaire Li to unveil new Volvos after rescuing Swedish icon
Bloomberg News, Published on 02/11/2016
» BEIJING/STOCKHOLM/MUNICH - Volvo Car Group’s newest, fanciest car has a built-in refrigeration compartment, handmade crystal Orrefors glassware - and has the hopes of China’s premium auto-manufacturing industry riding on it.
China theme park takes aim at Disney
Bloomberg News, Published on 29/05/2016
» Billionaire Wang Jianlin on Saturday officially unveiled Dalian Wanda Group Co’s Wanda City, the first of the company's 15 planned theme park and entertainment projects in China that it hopes will help it unseat Walt Disney Co as the world’s largest tourism operator.
Kuala Lumpur’s $1bn budget terminal sinking, airline says
Bloomberg News, Published on 27/07/2015
» KUALA LUMPUR — A new budget-airline terminal at the city’s international airport is sinking, with cracks appearing in the taxiway and water forming pools that planes must drive through.
Thai exports slump as neighbours' rise
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/11/2014
» Thailand is heading for a second straight year of slumping exports, something the one-time tiger economy hasn’t experienced in at least two decades and a loss that magnifies challenges for the military-run government.