Candidates for Malaysia’s 15th General Election (GE15) have utilized TikTok as one of their platforms to attract the support of voters, particularly the young. Muhyiddin Yassin, the head of Perikatan Nasional (PN), participated in a TikTok trend to the hip hop song Swipe by Singaporean artist Alyph. Despite the fact that TikTok has previously stated that political advertising is not …

Thailand’s military government is conducting an experiment to determine what happens when a country in Asia, a region with generally strict drug regulations, effectively legalizes marijuana overnight. In the first few months, a large number of people created marijuana stores, and their consumers smoked a substantial amount of marijuana. On a street level, the marijuana sector in Thailand has a …

Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. were accused on Wednesday in an antitrust complaint of conspiring to increase iPhone and iPad pricing by banning practically all alternative resellers of new Apple products from Amazon’s website. The proposed class action in federal court in Seattle challenged a deal that went into effect in January 2019, under which Apple gave Amazon discounts of …

Jakarta is sinking. Indonesia’s enormous capital, notorious for traffic congestion and poor air quality, presents such a perfect storm of climate and environmental concerns that the government has chosen to relocate it to a safer location. More intense rains and flooding, increasing sea levels, and ground subsidence have combined to make the Southeast Asian megacity a difficult place to live …

Singapore has been impacted by global layoffs by social media company Meta, according to sources and posts on the professional networking website LinkedIn. Based on a tally of LinkedIn posts and The Straits Times’s sources, there are at least ten affected employees in Singapore. The layoffs will effect around 13% of Facebook’s parent company’s 87,000-person global workforce, or 11,000 employees. …

Selena Gomez has always been open about her mental health challenges, revealing with her fans how she came to terms with her bipolar disorder. She disclosed in an interview that while she intends to start a family, her drugs may reduce her chances. She told Rolling Stone, “That’s a very, very huge deal in my life right now. I believe …

Thailand is reversing a program that would have permitted affluent foreigners to acquire a limited amount of land, a government official said on Tuesday (Nov 8), following a popular uproar against the plan. Foreigners are limited to 0.16 ha of land provided they invest a minimum of 40 million baht (US$1.07 million) in securities or bonds for a minimum of …

Meta Platforms Inc META.O announced on Wednesday that it will lay off 13% of its workforce, or more than 11,000 workers, in one of the year’s largest layoffs, as the Facebook parent company confronts rising costs and a sluggish advertising market. The large layoffs, the first in Meta’s 18-year history, come after hundreds of layoffs at other prominent digital companies, …

Even though it is a somewhat underestimated programme, fans of Korean dramas have embraced Racket Boys season 2. Racket Boys is unique for its captivating and tranquil depiction of the charming plot line of this series. If you are also curious to learn more about Racket Boys and its second season, don’t worry; we have all you need to know …

Enola Holmes 2 presented some of the most iconic characters from the Sherlock Holmes novels, including John Watson (played by Himesh Patel) – but why did Enola send him to Sherlock? The characters and storylines from Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes books have been converted to a variety of mediums for decades, and in many instances, the artists have made …