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Riyadh’s airport closure is outlasting the attack that caused it
India's four carriers have suspended Riyadh, Dammam, Jeddah and Medina routes through October 17, while Saudi Arabia has not published a reopening date.
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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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Bangkok’s fifty districts flooded as pumps race the next storm
With 330 millimetres of rain overwhelming drainage in 48 hours, the city's pumping stations at maximum capacity estimate two to…
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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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Malaysia’s durian boom is collapsing under its own weight
Prices for premium Musang King fruit have halved in a year as…
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China’s strongest storm stalls inland, threatening basin-scale flooding
Typhoon Dolphin made landfall near Yuhuan with 151 km/h winds on August…
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Missile strikes force UAE to scatter its 5GW AI campus across emirates
After March drone attacks damaged AWS facilities in the Gulf, Abu Dhabi…
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India’s entry-level white-collar jobs are already shrinking from AI
While only 4.5 percent of developing-economy jobs face automation risk overall, India's…
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Sinaloa Cartel’s crypto millions now wash through Cambodia
A joint U.S.-Cambodia raid in August 2026 seized $7 million in digital…
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Asia’s AI agents are ransomware now. Security hasn’t caught up.
On July 1, Sysdig disclosed JADEPUFFER, the first autonomous AI ransomware attack,…
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Social media is recruiting trafficking victims into Asian scam compounds
The IOM reported on July 28 that tens of thousands from over…
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Johor Bahru’s quiet streets are pricing in a train that hasn’t launched yet
Rents in older residential neighbourhoods have tripled as entrepreneurs convert bungalows into…
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Uzbekistan is quietly rewriting Central Asia’s fintech map
With 39% of adults still unbanked, Tashkent's $1 billion strategy and September…
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India orders real-time monitoring after tanker attacks kill one seafarer
Following missile strikes on two chemical tankers in the Strait of Hormuz…
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Indonesia gave YouTube three days to fix child vaping or face a block
With 277 million daily users at stake, the communications ministry's August 5…
