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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.
WhatsApp-wielding vigilantes want garbage off the streets
News, Bloomberg News, Published on 04/04/2016
» If you were a pile of garbage on the street in India, here's what might happen to you now: a concerned citizen takes your picture, then sends it by WhatsApp to the smartphone of the garbage police. Khaki-clad cops jump in their vehicles, rush over and order your cleanup. City officials fine the offender and maybe reward the whistle-blower, too.
The folly of Thailand's endless protests
Bloomberg News, Published on 26/11/2013
» Is this the end of Thaksin Inc in Thailand? The more than 100,000 people who joined rallies Sunday to oust the nation's prime minister certainly hope so. So do the thousands who took to the streets again today, some of whom broke barricades and police lines to get inside the grounds of the Finance Ministry in Bangkok.