Myanmar's Falling Foreign Debt Masks a Growing Squeeze on Dollars and Household Budgets #Myanmar #Economy
Myanmar's Falling Foreign Debt Masks a Growing Squeeze on Dollars and Household Budgets
Debt falls while the pressure to pay grows Myanmar paid $5.201 billion in principal and $650 million in interest on external debt with longer maturities in 2024, according to the World Bank's International Debt Report 2025. Together, those payments reached…
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Jennie Ties Female K-pop Hot 100 Record as Dracula Reaches No. 3 #SouthKorea #Entertainment
Jennie Ties Female K-pop Hot 100 Record as Dracula Reaches No. 3
A Halloween Surge Takes Dracula to a New Peak Jennie has matched the highest Billboard Hot 100 position achieved by a female K-pop artist, with her Tame Impala collaboration "Dracula" climbing two places to No. 3 on the chart dated…
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Chinese Hydrogel Electrodes Keep Brain Signals Stable for Hours, With Typing Accuracy Above 94% #China #Science
Chinese Hydrogel Electrodes Keep Brain Signals Stable for Hours, With Typing Accuracy Above 94%
A softer scalp connection keeps brain signals readable for longer Researchers from Guangxi University, Guangxi Medical University and Tsinghua University have developed hydrogel electrodes that supported more than 94% accuracy in a visual typing task during testing over 14 hours…
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Strain Builds Again Along Japan Trench as Fault Locking Returns After 2011 Tohoku Earthquake #Japan #Science
Strain Builds Again Along Japan Trench as Fault Locking Returns After 2011 Tohoku Earthquake
Fourteen Years of Measurements Reveal a Fault Reloading The plate boundary that ruptured in Japan's magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake in 2011 had largely regained its locked state about 10 years after the disaster, according to research published in Science on…
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Vietnam and Japan Commit Over 43.1 Billion Yen to University and Power Projects #Japan #Vietnam #Economy
Vietnam and Japan Commit Over 43.1 Billion Yen to University and Power Projects
Tokyo agreements target education and electricity supply Vietnam and Japan exchanged cooperation documents in Tokyo on November 9, 2026, committing more than 43.1 billion yen to Vietnam Japan University and the O Mon III thermal power plant. The agreements connect…
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Uzbekistan prepares 133 projects worth $3.3 billion for Aral Sea fund chairmanship #Uzbekistan #Environment
Uzbekistan prepares 133 projects worth $3.3 billion for Aral Sea fund chairmanship
Water systems, public services and regional cooperation lead the plans Uzbekistan has prepared 133 projects with an estimated combined cost of $3.3 billion for its 2027 to 2029 chairmanship of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS). President…
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Bangladesh takes coastal displacement and climate debt demands to COP31 #Bangladesh #Environment
Bangladesh takes coastal displacement and climate debt demands to COP31
Nearly five million displaced, with safe homes still out of reach Bangladesh is taking a demand for climate grants to COP31 in Antalya, Turkey, as an official nationwide assessment puts the number of people living in displacement after natural disasters…
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Visa and Octopus Expand Hong Kong QR Payments for Overseas Wallet Users #HongKong #SouthKorea #Technology
Visa and Octopus Expand Hong Kong QR Payments for Overseas Wallet Users
Four overseas payment apps connect to Octopus merchants Visitors from South Korea and Vietnam can use four supported payment apps to scan Octopus QR codes at participating Hong Kong merchants under an expanded partnership between Visa and Octopus Cards Limited.…
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INMU KING Returns With Taiwan's Jie Ge Meme After YouTube Removal #Taiwan #Japan #Entertainment
INMU KING Returns With Taiwan's Jie Ge Meme After YouTube Removal
A Viral Hit Returns With New Faces and More Clothes INMU KING, the Japanese meme song that drew nearly 30 million YouTube views before its removal, returned in a revised version on November 8, 2026. The new video changes sensitive…
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UN Warns North Korea Is Expanding Executions as Rights Abuses Deepen #NorthKorea #Society
UN Warns North Korea Is Expanding Executions as Rights Abuses Deepen
Death Penalty Expansion Reaches Into Daily Life North Korea has doubled the number of crimes carrying the death penalty in its criminal code from eight to 16 since 2015, United Nations Special Rapporteur Elizabeth Salmón told a UN General Assembly…
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SoftBank, Grab and PETROS Plan US$1 Billion Sarawak AI Project Within Wider Malaysia Expansion #Malaysia #Technology
SoftBank, Grab and PETROS Plan US$1 Billion Sarawak AI Project Within Wider Malaysia Expansion
SoftBank to Lead Sarawak's AI Infrastructure Venture SoftBank Group, Grab and Petroleum Sarawak Bhd (PETROS) announced on November 9, 2026, a joint development agreement for a proposed US$1 billion investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure in Sarawak. SoftBank would contribute US$800…
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Alibaba's T-Head Eyes $2 Billion to $3 Billion Hong Kong IPO in 2027 #China #HongKong #Technology
Alibaba's T-Head Eyes $2 Billion to $3 Billion Hong Kong IPO in 2027
A chip business with growing sales and a reported listing target Alibaba's chip design subsidiary T-Head is planning a Hong Kong initial public offering in 2027 that could raise $2 billion to $3 billion, according to market reports citing people…
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Laos Wind Farm Offers ASEAN a Power Trade Model, With Lessons on Finance and Local Benefits #Vietnam #Laos #Economy
Laos Wind Farm Offers ASEAN a Power Trade Model, With Lessons on Finance and Local Benefits
A 600 MW export project puts regional ambitions into practice On mountain ridges in southern Laos, 133 wind turbines are supplying Vietnam under a power purchase agreement lasting 25 years. The US$950 million Monsoon Wind Power project began commercial operations…
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Google Expands TPU Lineup With Secure AI and Larger Memory Systems to Challenge Nvidia #Technology
Google Expands TPU Lineup With Secure AI and Larger Memory Systems to Challenge Nvidia
Two new systems target the next demands of AI Google has expanded its eighth generation of Tensor Processing Units with two specialized systems: TPU 8tx, which protects sensitive information while AI processes it, and TPU 8i Max, which combines two…
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Maldives Bank Returns Russia Linked Hotel Payments, Leaving $2 Million in Dispute #Maldives #Travel
Maldives Bank Returns Russia Linked Hotel Payments, Leaving $2 Million in Dispute
Hotel payments stall as Russia seeks talks Bank of Maldives has been returning payments for Russian tourists' hotel stays since October 18, 2026, leaving an estimated $2 million delayed or returned by November 6 and forcing some holidaymakers to pay…
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Mumbai Bans Rockets and Aerial Firecrackers Until November 25 After Diwali Fire Surge #India #Society
Mumbai Bans Rockets and Aerial Firecrackers Until November 25 After Diwali Fire Surge
137 Firecracker Fires in One Day Prompt Citywide Restrictions Mumbai has banned rockets and other aerial firecrackers across public and private premises until 11.59 pm on November 25, 2026, after the city recorded 137 fires attributed to firecrackers on Diwali…
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Rockfall Floods Tarbela Expansion Site, Halting Work on Pakistan's 1,530 MW Project #Pakistan #Environment
Rockfall Floods Tarbela Expansion Site, Halting Work on Pakistan's 1,530 MW Project
Workers evacuated as water enters Tunnel 5 A rock collapse at Pakistan's Tarbela Fifth Extension Hydropower Project sent water into Tunnel 5 and the powerhouse construction area on November 9, forcing workers to evacuate and bringing construction to a halt.…
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Philippines Counts 5 Million Foreign Visitors as Tourism Chief Eyes 6.7 Million for 2026 #Philippines #Travel
Philippines Counts 5 Million Foreign Visitors as Tourism Chief Eyes 6.7 Million for 2026
Strong Finish Needed After 5 Million Arrivals The Philippines welcomed 5 million foreign visitors in the first 10 months of 2026, according to the Department of Tourism, with the United States leading its overseas markets and a recovery in Chinese…
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Nepal presses for climate justice at COP31 as Himalayan proposal awaits approval #Nepal #Bhutan #Environment
Nepal presses for climate justice at COP31 as Himalayan proposal awaits approval
Antalya talks put Nepal's mountain risks in focus Nepal opened its pavilion at COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye, on November 9, 2026, calling for easier access to climate disaster funding as it renewed a joint effort with Bhutan to put Himalayan…
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SunCable Maps Most of Australia to Singapore Power Route, With Financing Target Pushed to 2030 #Singapore #Indonesia #Economy
SunCable Maps Most of Australia to Singapore Power Route, With Financing Target Pushed to 2030
A 4,300 km cable moves closer to a settled route SunCable has largely settled the route for a proposed 4,300 km electricity cable from Australia to Singapore, including about 3,700 km through Indonesian waters, as the developer moves its expected…
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Pakistani Farmers Sue RWE and Heidelberg Materials Over 2022 Flood Losses #Pakistan #Environment
Pakistani Farmers Sue RWE and Heidelberg Materials Over 2022 Flood Losses
39 farmers take their flood losses to a German court Thirty-nine farmers from Pakistan's Sindh province are seeking partial compensation from German energy company RWE and cement producer Heidelberg Materials after the 2022 floods destroyed homes, crops and livestock. Their…
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Kazakhstan's $10 Billion AI Hub Faces a Power Test as Data Center Plans Expand #Kazakhstan #Technology
Kazakhstan's $10 Billion AI Hub Faces a Power Test as Data Center Plans Expand
A coal city prepares to export computing power Kazakhstan plans to turn Ekibastuz, a city built around coal mines and power stations, into an international artificial intelligence hub. A $10 billion package of agreements announced on June 15, 2026, envisages…
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Taiwan Exports Hit US$96.76 Billion Record as AI Boom Reshapes Trade #Taiwan #Economy
Taiwan Exports Hit US$96.76 Billion Record as AI Boom Reshapes Trade
Chips and servers drive a third consecutive monthly record Taiwan exported US$96.76 billion worth of goods in October 2026, up 58.9% from a year earlier, as spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure pushed shipments of computers, communications equipment and electronic components…
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Small Agencies Launch 90% of K-pop Groups, but Major Labels Keep Acts Active Twice as Long #SouthKorea #Entertainment
Small Agencies Launch 90% of K-pop Groups, but Major Labels Keep Acts Active Twice as Long
Most groups debut outside the biggest companies Small and midsized agencies launched 1,042 of the 1,159 K-pop idol groups that debuted between 1996 and 2025. Yet only seven of those groups released an album selling at least 1 million copies,…
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Thai Campaigners Challenge Block on Bill to Reverse Coup Era Criminal Penalties #Thailand #Politics
Thai Campaigners Challenge Block on Bill to Reverse Coup Era Criminal Penalties
A petition with 59,503 signatures faces a parliamentary barrier A Thai campaign backed by 59,503 signatories is preparing to appeal a parliamentary decision preventing its bill from advancing through the public petition process. The proposal would repeal Order No. 41…
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TWICE Concert Film Brings London O2 Show to Cinemas Worldwide on February 5, 2027 #SouthKorea #Entertainment
TWICE Concert Film Brings London O2 Show to Cinemas Worldwide on February 5, 2027
A London performance becomes a global cinema event TWICE will bring its This Is For tour to cinemas worldwide on February 5, 2027, with a concert film built around the group's performance at London's O2 Arena. TWICE: This Is For...…
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Korean Air and Asiana Prepare for December 17 Merger With 10 Years of Mileage Protections #SouthKorea #Travel
Korean Air and Asiana Prepare for December 17 Merger With 10 Years of Mileage Protections
A bigger airline, with changes passengers will notice first Korean Air and Asiana Airlines are preparing to combine on December 17, 2026, bringing together about 230 aircraft and roughly 28,000 employees while changing how passengers book flights, seek refunds and…
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South Korean Forum Demands Checks on Power Demand and Costs Before New Nuclear Decisions #SouthKorea #Politics
South Korean Forum Demands Checks on Power Demand and Costs Before New Nuclear Decisions
A jump in electricity forecasts puts nuclear plans under scrutiny South Korea's forecast for peak electricity demand in 2040 rose by about 27 gigawatts in four months, prompting a new group of researchers and academics to demand a closer examination…
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Vietnam Lawmakers Propose Lifetime Tobacco Ban for People Born From 2010 #Vietnam #Health
Vietnam Lawmakers Propose Lifetime Tobacco Ban for People Born From 2010
A birth date could determine who can buy tobacco People born on or after January 1, 2010, would be barred for life from buying or using tobacco under a proposal presented to Vietnam's National Assembly on November 9, 2026. The…
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Lacson Seeks Public Transcripts of 2027 Budget Talks as Senate Scrutinizes Fund Realignments #Philippines #Politics
Lacson Seeks Public Transcripts of 2027 Budget Talks as Senate Scrutinizes Fund Realignments
A written record of who changes the budget Senator Panfilo Lacson is pushing for published transcripts and continuous livestreaming of negotiations on the Philippines' proposed P7.2 trillion national budget for 2027, seeking a public record of which lawmakers introduce amendments…
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