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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.
Hundreds of Companies, CEOs Band Together on Voting Access
Business, Published on 16/04/2021
» Hundreds of business leaders and companies, including Amazon.com Inc. and Netflix Inc., signed a new statement to "defend the right to vote and oppose any discriminatory legislation," the latest corporate response to a wave of Republican-led voting bills being advanced in dozens of states.
Currencies slump, funds flee emerging markets
Business, Published on 08/09/2018
» Recap: Emerging stock markets, especially those in Asia, experienced heavy fund outflows as concerns mounted over the health of emerging economies in general, and contagion impact from the likes of Argentina and Turkey. The Indonesian rupiah hit a two-decade low and the Indian rupee also lost more ground. US-China trade tensions continue to cast a pall over markets as well.
Billionaires play big in digital TV game
Business, Nanat Suchiva, Published on 04/09/2017
» The media business and billionaires seem to attract each other.
AR and VR: The new productivity tools beyond gaming and marketing
Business, Published on 01/05/2017
» All of the excitement around virtual reality and augmented reality (VR and AR) these days is spurring consumer marketing teams into action to ride the wave of this "next big thing". Virtual reality works by placing high-resolution screens over the user's eyes, occluding their view of their real-world surroundings. The nature of VR necessitates that the experience takes place in a safe, predefined area. To create greater immersion, many VR headsets also support audio. VR is not a mobile technology in the conventional sense: you can't put on a VR headset and walk down the street.
US newspapers aim to ride 'Trump Bump'
Business, Published on 17/02/2017
» NEW YORK: The Trump administration's combative view of traditional news media as the "opposition party" and "fake news" is turning out to be the best hope in 2017 for newspapers struggling to attract more digital readers and advertisers.
Guarded hopefulness
Asia focus, Published on 16/11/2015
» John Micklethwait is a newspaper man seized by fear and hope for the future of journalism. To be sure, "newspaper man" is a bit of an anachronistic description for the new editor-in-chief at Bloomberg News, where no ink is spilled on paper. Across 325,000 Bloomberg terminals, headlines splash upon screens in seconds, bumping stale events much faster than one wraps fish with yesterday's page one.