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Global funds shun Thai markets on election risks, policy stasis
Bloomberg News, Published on 04/02/2026
» Thailand’s inability to revive its economy has left its stocks and bonds in an unenviable position: cheap, unloved and increasingly irrelevant.
High coffee prices are changing how consumers take their daily brew
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/12/2025
» LONDON — Global coffee prices rose to record highs this year, sending the cost of cappuccinos and lattes soaring. But a caffeine habit is hard to kick.
Japan builds up ‘missile archipelago’ near Taiwan to counter China
Bloomberg News, Published on 09/12/2025
» TOKYO — As military tensions between China and Japan reach the highest level in more than a decade, the sparsely populated island of Yonaguni finds itself right on the front lines.
Global flights in chaos as top-selling Airbus jet hit by recall
Bloomberg News, Published on 29/11/2025
» HONG KONG — Airlines across the world cancelled hundreds of flights and scrambled to adjust schedules, as a major Airbus SE software glitch threatened to derail a crucial holiday travel season.
AI boom is turning Malaysia’s palm oil estates into data centres
Bloomberg News, Published on 19/11/2025
» KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia’s palm oil giants, long-blamed for razing rainforests, fuelling toxic haze and driving orangutans to the brink of extinction, are recasting themselves as unlikely champions in a different, potentially greener race: the quest to lure the world’s artificial intelligence (AI) data centres to the Southeast Asian country.
Singapore mulls holding top bank execs responsible for AI risks
Bloomberg News, Published on 13/11/2025
» SINGAPORE — Singapore’s central bank has proposed a set of guidelines that will hold the board and senior management of financial institutions responsible for risks that arise from their use of artificial intelligence (AI).
Record Vietnam rains kill nine, forcing thousands to evacuate
Bloomberg News, Published on 29/10/2025
» HANOI — Widespread flooding across central Vietnam has killed nine people and damaged more than 100,000 homes in the tourist hubs of Hue and Da Nang, as the Southeast Asian nation endures another bout of extreme weather.
World must spend $540 billion a year looking for oil, gas
Bloomberg News, Published on 16/09/2025
» TORONTO — The world needs to spend some US$540 billion a year looking for oil and gas to maintain current output by 2050, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Typhoons lift Philippines’ jobless rate to three-year high
Bloomberg News, Published on 10/09/2025
» MANILA — A string of typhoons and monsoon rains pushed the Philippines’ jobless rate to a three-year high, highlighting the economic impact of climate change to the Southeast Asian nation that is prone to tropical cyclones.
Trump signs order to rename Pentagon the Department of War
Bloomberg News, Published on 06/09/2025
» NEW YORK — President Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War, calling the move a reversion to a time before America went “woke.”