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Singapore's Grab raises $1.5 billion from SoftBank fund
Bloomberg News, Published on 06/03/2019
» SINGAPORE: Leading Southeast Asian ride-hailing provider Grab raised about $1.5 billion from SoftBank Group Corp’s Vision Fund, bankrolling its effort to expand into new services across the region.
Thailand tilts towards Chinese-style internet controls
Bloomberg News, Published on 15/04/2019
» HONG KONG: A swathe of the world is adopting China’s vision for a tightly controlled internet over the unfettered American approach, a stunning ideological coup for Beijing that would have been unthinkable less than a decade ago.
Who gets to define fake news? In Singapore, a debated question
Bloomberg News, Published on 08/05/2019
» SINGAPORE: Singapore’s ruling party defended its planned bill to combat 'fake news' amid continued debate about who gets to define what’s true and false.
Amnesty urges US to press Vietnam on rights as arrests rise
Bloomberg News, Published on 13/05/2019
» HANOI: Vietnam is increasingly jailing “prisoners of conscience” for comments made on social media platforms such as Facebook Inc, Amnesty International said, urging the US to challenge the government over the growing arrests during talks this week.
Google stranglehold on search pushes companies into dead zones
Bloomberg News, Published on 09/10/2019
» LONDON: “Where’s the best place to hide a body? The second page of a Google search.”
Singapore sees ‘strong interest’ in digital bank licences
Bloomberg News, Published on 07/01/2020
» SINGAPORE: Singapore has received “strong interest” in its effort to open up the banking industry to fresh competition after 21 groups made bids for digital licences, the financial regulator said.
Canadians aboard cruise ship 'infected' : Virus update
Bloomberg News, Published on 18/02/2020
» Canada said 32 of its citizens aboard the stricken Diamond Princess have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a tweet from the Toronto Star.
US may become hub of outbreak: Virus Update
Bloomberg News, Published on 24/03/2020
» The euro zone economy is sinking as countries toughen containment efforts, implementing strict stay-at-home policies even as China prepared to lift its lockdown in Wuhan, the city at the center of the original outbreak.
Covid-19 could mean the end of small charities
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/05/2020
» Non-profit groups in the US and other countries could shutter operations entirely as a result of the coronavirus, even as billions of dollars are donated to pandemic-relief efforts.
Emerging markets stumble as US-China tensions return
Bloomberg News, Published on 24/05/2020
» Just as early bets on an emerging-market recovery start fuelling appetite for stocks and currencies, an old bugbear is reappearing to haunt investors: US-China tensions.