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US tariffs sparked rush to get bitcoin mining gear out of Asia
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/04/2025
» KUALA LUMPUR — For about a week, Bitcoin mining firms in Southeast Asia faced an all-consuming deadline: midnight, April 9.
Learning: a gift that keeps on giving
Arinya Talerngsri, Published on 31/07/2023
» I have noticed that people react differently to the prospect of learning something, depending on how they will experience the gift they receive. The actual experience of learning (for all ages), as much as the quality or the applicability of the content, is taking on growing importance.
'Beautiful Corolla': Afghan love affair with Toyota endures the ages
AFP, Published on 05/05/2023
» KABUL - Little is certain in Afghanistan -- armies invade and retreat, governments rise and fall -- but when the key of a Toyota Corolla turns in the ignition, the engine can be relied upon to roar to life.
Year of Turbulence
Asia focus, Asia Focus Team, Published on 27/12/2021
» Pandemic drags on recovery: In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, many Asian countries had enviable success, avoiding large-scale outbreaks and mass deaths. But the arrival of the more transmissible Delta variant this year and sluggish vaccine rollouts compounded by low availability sent cases surging. Combined with poor monitoring and easy movement among countries, often unofficially, Southeast Asia became a virus hotspot. The ballooning health crisis collided with churning political discontent in the case of Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia. Economically, the new wave of infections, and attendant restrictions imposed to curb the spread, stalled recoveries. After nearly two years of strict border controls, many countries started to loosen up and live with Covid. But the rise of the Omicron variant now threatens to scuttle those tentative reopening plans and usher in a third year of economic anxiety.