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Old places, new menus
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 22/07/2025
» Bored of eating the same thing twice? Fear no more, here's a list of restaurants that have shuffled things up to make sure you're never bored or short of choices while dining out.
Tech activists write code to save migrants
Reuters, Published on 27/02/2024
» LONDON - When a migrant rescue non-profit asked Nik Zemke if he could design an app to pinpoint ships in distress in the Mediterranean, the German web developer headed to a hackers' convention to look for like-minded volunteers.
Singapore builds AI model to 'represent' Southeast Asians
Bloomberg News, Published on 08/02/2024
» SINGAPORE - Like millions worldwide, Southeast Asians have been trying out large language models (LLMs) such as Meta's Llama 2 and Mistral AI - but in their native Bahasa Indonesia or Thai. The result has usually been gibberish in English.
Scents of royalty
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 12/12/2023
» Famous for luxury interior designs, Clive Christian OBE acquired The Crown Perfumery Company in 1999.
Russians switch to homegrown social media amid Ukraine crackdown
Thomson Reuters Foundation, Published on 11/04/2022
» TBILISI/BERLIN: When YouTube stopped users in Russia from monetising their clips following the invasion of Ukraine, George Kavanosyan, a Moscow-based environmentalist with 60,000 followers on the platform tried to switch to its local equivalent, RuTube.
A wider focus
Life, Published on 29/12/2021
» If you think that many of the top 10 end-of-year movie lists could use a little more dystopia, fight scenes or bone-chilling moments, our genre experts hear you. They have been offering streaming recommendations all year on an eclectic mix of action movies, horror films, sci-fi spectacles and international selections. Now they've sifted through the films of 2021 to come up with a handful of standouts, all available to stream now.
Cambodia aims hybrid digital currency on blockchain at unbanked
Thomson Reuters Foundation, Published on 22/12/2021
» When Cambodia's central bank launched a pilot for a digital payment system in July 2019, its aim was to increase financial inclusion in the country and expand use of the local currency over the US dollar. Then came the coronavirus pandemic.
News Corp strikes content deal with Facebook in Australia
AFP, Published on 16/03/2021
» SYDNEY: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp on Tuesday announced a three-year content deal with Facebook in Australia, weeks after Canberra introduced laws forcing digital platforms to pay for news.
Mogul vs Mogul: Australia's tech law pits Murdoch against Zuckerberg
AFP, Published on 22/02/2021
» SYDNEY: Australia's push to regulate tech giants has become a power struggle between two of the world's most powerful men, with Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg locked in a generational battle for media dominance.
K-pop for the planet
Asia focus, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Published on 22/02/2021
» From petitioning to save forests to raising cash for disaster victims, a growing army of K-pop fans worldwide has emerged as the latest force in the global fight against climate change.