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Dating apps' rift with investors
News, Dave Lee, Published on 10/11/2023
» When I told my old college friends I was moving to New York City to become a columnist, they called me Carrie Bradshaw for an entire week. Well, be careful what you wish for because I've been thinking a lot about online dating over the past few days. And with Bumble Inc's chief executive officer stepping down and the share prices of the leading dating app groups at record lows, I couldn't help but wonder: What are we really willing to pay to find true love?
How to grow a greener city
News, Editorial, Published on 03/07/2022
» On Aug 12, Bangkokians will officially get a new landmark, though this time -- thankfully -- it won't be a shopping complex. Impressively, even before the gates of Benjakitti Forest Park are to be officially opened next month, it has already drawn praise from many quarters -- a rare feat for what is essentially a landscaped garden in a concrete-crazed city.
Prawit thanks Cambodia for crime-busting support
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 23/06/2022
» Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon has conveyed his thanks to Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and National Defence Minister Tea Banh for his cooperation in suppressing transnational call-centre scam gangs, Defence Ministry spokesman Gen Kongcheep Tantravanich said on Wednesday.
Kathoey curry drama, ATM theft blues, sex hotel capers
News, Mae Moo, Published on 03/05/2020
» Bloggers with an axe to grind
Another Brexit vote is a bad idea
News, John Lloyd, Published on 10/12/2018
» In the "careful what you wish for" stakes, few issues rank higher than the plan for a second referendum by those in the UK hoping for a reversal of the country's June 2016 vote to leave the European Union (the "Remainers"). If secured, the outcome could be a fast track to a phenomenon the UK has so far avoided -- the creation of a large, angry populist party, probably of the right and perhaps also of the left.
Tax dilemma for social media giants
News, Editorial, Published on 06/05/2018
» In the old days, a dating application like Tinder that allows users to swipe left to reject or swipe right to express interest in the person who posts his or her profile for viewing was beyond imagination.
Putin's nuclear-tipped hybrid war
News, Peter Apps, Published on 05/03/2018
» This month marks the fourth anniversary of Russia's March 2014 annexation of Crimea, an event that shocked the world and shook European faith in the post-Cold War security order. In retrospect, it has become clear that, for Russian President Vladimir Putin, annexing the peninsula was not so much an end goal as a declaration of future intent, an early escalation in a broader and more ambitious effort that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko recently termed, with little obvious exaggeration, Russia's "World Hybrid War" on Western democracy itself.