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Britain won’t cancel your Saudi flight. Your insurer might.
After an attack killed at least 12 at Riyadh's King Khalid airport, Jeddah and Dammam now carry the same warning as Yemen's border, with no date for lifting.
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Japan lost half its Chinese tourists. Here’s how it’s rewiring inbound retail
With mainland Chinese arrivals down 60% to 418,000 in August, US visitors now outspend every other market, forcing Japanese retailers…
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Cambodia’s scam crackdown leaves the money trail untouched
US lawmakers estimate scam profits reached 60 percent of Cambodia's GDP, but frozen assets and compound raids leave politically connected…
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Singapore is betting US$500 million to unlock Asia’s green capital
The Monetary Authority of Singapore closed the first US$250 million tranche of…
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Vietnam’s hospitals debut in Asia rankings built on reputation, not outcomes
Eleven Vietnamese hospitals appeared for the first time in the 2026 Newsweek–Statista…
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Asian chip stocks ignore oil surge as SK Hynix listing drowns out Hormuz risk
SK Hynix's US$26.5 billion Nasdaq offering sent South Korean and Japanese semiconductor…
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Vietnam’s crypto penalties are live. Its exchanges are not.
The penalty decree took effect September 1, but no exchange has been…
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A UAE spy chief now controls a US crypto bank issuing dollar stablecoins
Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al Nahyan, the UAE's national security advisor, holds…
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Thailand’s one-month fertilizer supply exposes the real Hormuz cost
With shipping traffic collapsing to 14 vessels and war-risk premiums spiking, Thai…
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Vietnam’s tourism boom left its safety rules at the pier
Indian arrivals to Vietnam surged 49% to 750,000 in 2025, but enforcement…
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Singapore beauty chain forced to refund $1m for targeting elderly CPF savings
DNA Brands staff systematically interrogated customers aged 60+ about retirement balances, then…
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Three broken systems lock oral cancer stem cells in place
A convergence model in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences reveals that…
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South Korea bets $600 billion on a chip boom that may not last
Seoul's record 2027 budget assumes corporate tax receipts will more than double…
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Volcanic ash from Anak Krakatau shuts Jakarta’s main airport for four hours
A 50,000-foot ash plume from the eruption forced Soekarno-Hatta to suspend operations…
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Ford pulls Lincoln out of China to dodge a $3 billion tariff bill
The automaker will stop importing China-built Nautilus models by 2030 and shift…
