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Bitcoin’s stealth rally puts it atop the quarterly scoreboard once again
Bloomberg, Published on 31/03/2023
» Bitcoin’s surprising fast exit from its “crypto winter” has once again put the notoriously volatile digital currency atop the leader-board in the first quarter for being the best-performing asset class by a wide margin.
Singapore keen to play peacemaker as US-China tensions rise
Bloomberg News, Published on 09/03/2023
» SINGAPORE: Top trade official in Singapore said the city-state is willing to facilitate a dialogue between the United States and China to repair their relationship, as he described growing tensions between the world’s biggest economies as detrimental to the world.
Baht falls most in a month after govt raises Covid alert level
Bloomberg News, Published on 06/01/2022
» The baht fell the most since late November after the government raised the Covid-19 alert to the second-highest level, further dimming the recovery of the tourism sector.
Covid may change aviation industry forever
News, Kamolwat Praprutitum, Published on 05/01/2022
» After 2020 marked the onset and early waves of Covid-19, last year saw the full-scale impact of the pandemic crisis and the aviation industry remained one of its biggest casualties.
Fears over new Covid variant hit Asian markets, oil prices
Bangkok Post and AFP, Published on 26/11/2021
» Asian markets and oil prices sank while safe havens rallied on Friday over fears of a new Covid variant that scientists warn could be more infectious than Delta and even be more resistant to vaccines, dealing a blow to the global recovery.
China bans all crypto transactions
Bloomberg News, Published on 24/09/2021
» BEIJING: China has banned all cryptocurrency transactions and vowed to stop illegal crypto mining, delivering the toughest blow yet to the trillion-dollar industry.
Dark cloud over Myanmar
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 08/02/2021
» My first feeling after waking up last Monday and hearing about the military takeover in Myanmar is hard to explain, but it was certainly disappointing to see such a setback for Thailand's next-door neighbour.
Touch-me-not travel
Business, Published on 12/05/2020
» As travel vaporises in the face of on-off lockdowns, airlines, airports and hotels are pondering the future of hospitality in these fluid and fearful socially distanced times. Professional hosts are examining how to safely distance yet offer hospitable warmth without turning everything into a set from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
No choice but to invest in oil, says chief executive of Shell
Business, Reuters, Published on 16/10/2019
» LONDON: Royal Dutch Shell Plc still sees abundant opportunity to make money from oil and gas in coming decades even as investors and governments increase pressure on energy companies over climate change, according to its chief executive officer.
Oil prices soar more than 10% after Saudi plant attacks
AFP, Published on 16/09/2019
» HONG KONG: Oil prices surged more than 10% Monday after attacks on two Saudi Arabian plants that slashed output in the world's top producer by half, with Donald Trump blaming Iran and raising the possibility of a military strike on the country.