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Asean banks face climate pressure
Oped, Rachel Ho, Published on 08/04/2026
» The global oil and gas crisis is worsening. Amid the Middle East war, the central banks of countries in Southeast Asia must address a perfect storm of rising fuel prices, cost-of-living pressures, and worsening impacts of climate disasters.
It's the energy system, stupid
Oped, Vanessa Nakate and Rachel Kyte, Published on 17/11/2022
» Ordinary people around the world are suffering from two massive, overlapping problems: surging living costs and the fallout from a rapidly warming climate. In the Horn of Africa, 22 million people are at risk of starvation, owing to the failure of four consecutive rainy seasons and soaring global grain prices.
How new tech can help forge trust
News, Ben Ho, Published on 04/04/2022
» Twitter recently added a feature that lets users identify themselves with an NFT picture, distinguished by a new hexagonal border, rather than just a regular profile photo. An NFT (short for non-fungible token) is a digital commodity, typically an image, whose ownership is recorded on a ledger stored on a blockchain.
Rich Americans Borrow to Live Off Their Paper Wealth
Business, Rachel Louise Ensign & Richard Rubin, Published on 13/07/2021
» Rising stocks and rock-bottom interest rates have delivered a big perk to rich Americans: cheap loans that they can use to fund their lifestyles while minimizing their tax bills.
What is neurodiversity and why should you care about it?
Rachel Morgan-Trimmer, Published on 20/08/2020
» I sat at the back of the room, staring out of the window. Everyone else was busy tapping away at their keyboards, occasionally looking up to the screen at the front, or asking Andy, the IT manager, a question.
The Vanishing Executive Assistant
Business, Rachel Feintzeig, Published on 20/01/2020
» Executive assistants once ran the office. Increasingly, the office runs without them.
After 67 years, MAD magazine leaving news-stands
Business, RACHEL LERMAN, Published on 09/07/2019
» SAN FRANCISCO: MAD, the long-running satirical magazine that influenced everyone from "Weird Al" Yankovic to the writers of The Simpsons, will be leaving news-stands after its August issue. Really.
Navigating the intricacies of a socialist system: Labour outsourcing in Vietnam
Chuyen Hong Huu Le, attorney-at-law, and Kien Trung Trinh, partner, in Tilleke & Gibbins' Ho Chi Minh office., Published on 10/01/2019
» Since its World Trade Organisation accession in 2007, Vietnam has been an attractive destination in ASEAN for foreign investment, with overseas companies eager to offer their goods and services to the growing Vietnamese market. In parallel, Vietnam has emerged as one of the top countries in the world for business process outsourcing (BPO), attracting foreign companies with affordable and skilled Vietnam-based labour to handle back office and IT functions.
Yemen peace bid misses vital factor
News, Jamille Bigio & Rachel Vogelstein, Published on 20/12/2018
» As Yemen's warring parties met in Sweden last week, hopes were high that these peace talks -- the first since 2016 -- would spark a political process to end the ongoing conflict that has left the country on the brink of famine and created what the UN calls a "living hell for millions of children".