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BEIJING – A troubling form of hardware-based financial fraud is spreading in Mainland China with cell phone charging banks. When a recipient plugs one into a phone, the device can push malware onto the handset and quickly steal banking details. [1]
6 reasons you can be denied entry into Thailand Key entry rules and common mistakes that can get travellers turned away at the border Thailand has significantly tightened its border controls since 2024, and what used to be casual entry procedures ha... [2]
Screws tighten on media Just as the military junta escalates its crackdown on independent media in Myanmar, it was decided at a meeting on Tuesday led by the regime’s Union Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs Daw Thida [3]
BAGAN—The rising sun streaked a light blanket of fog with pink and yellow. Suddenly, pagodas popped out from the mist, some grand and intricate, others squat and modest, some crumbling, others glinting with gold—a carousel of Buddhist temples amid fi... [4]
TOKYO -- Japanese convenience store chain FamilyMart will begin rolling out kiosks for renting portable phone chargers that foreign travelers can use just by tapping a credit card. [5]
KAYIN STATE, MYANMAR — In only his 28th day in office, the newly appointed Thai Prime Minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, received an urgent request to help a group of his citizens who were reportedly trapped in a scam center just a few kilometers from th... [6]
The crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine State gripped the decade of the “democratic opening”, as state oppression of the Rohingya Muslim minority surged in 2012, culminating in the 2016 and 2017 mass expulsion that drove over 700,000 people into Bangladesh. [7]
TOKYO -- Japanese cellphone carrier SoftBank Corp. will soon test technology that will charge earbuds, smartwatches and other wearable devices by simply walking near a mobile base station, Nikkei has learned. [8]
BEIJING – A troubling form of hardware-based financial fraud is spreading in Mainland China with cell phone charging banks. When a recipient plugs one into a phone, the device can push malware onto the handset and quickly steal banking details.
6 reasons you can be denied entry into Thailand Key entry rules and common mistakes that can get travellers turned away at the border Thailand has significantly tightened its border controls since 2024, and what used to be casual entry procedures ha
Screws tighten on media Just as the military junta escalates its crackdown on independent media in Myanmar, it was decided at a meeting on Tuesday led by the regime’s Union Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs Daw Thida
BAGAN—The rising sun streaked a light blanket of fog with pink and yellow. Suddenly, pagodas popped out from the mist, some grand and intricate, others squat and modest, some crumbling, others glinting with gold—a carousel of Buddhist temples amid fi
TOKYO -- Japanese convenience store chain FamilyMart will begin rolling out kiosks for renting portable phone chargers that foreign travelers can use just by tapping a credit card.
KAYIN STATE, MYANMAR — In only his 28th day in office, the newly appointed Thai Prime Minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, received an urgent request to help a group of his citizens who were reportedly trapped in a scam center just a few kilometers from th
The crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine State gripped the decade of the “democratic opening”, as state oppression of the Rohingya Muslim minority surged in 2012, culminating in the 2016 and 2017 mass expulsion that drove over 700,000 people into Bangladesh.
TOKYO -- Japanese cellphone carrier SoftBank Corp. will soon test technology that will charge earbuds, smartwatches and other wearable devices by simply walking near a mobile base station, Nikkei has learned.
SINGAPORE -- The Association of Banks in Singapore will soon launch a new service enabling retail account holders at seven banks here to send one another money by using cellphone numbers instead of account numbers.
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