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Sunburn: Why Asia’s biggest electronic dance music festival still doesn’t have a venue

Tickets are already on sale and the festival is supposed to be just over two months away, but organisers for Sunburn 2024 are facing stiff opposition from locals in Goa who fear it will bring drugs, noise pollution and environmental damage. Shahana Yasmin reports

The Independent UK

Ghana grapples with crisis caused by world's throwaway fashion

This week's podcast focuses on textile waste from fast fashion. As cheap clothes from China, Asia and Europe increasingly end up in West Africa, pollution is rising – particularly in Ghana. RFI spoke to Greenpeace Africa investigators to understand the scale of the issue and how to combat it.

Radio France Internationale

Stock market today: Asian shares gain as China releases plan for market support

Asian shares are higher after China's central bank released plans for supporting stock markets through share repurchases

The Independent UK

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Cocoa Prices Settle Higher on Mixed Q3 Global Cocoa Grindings

December ICE NY cocoa (CCZ24 ) Thursday closed up +6 (+0.08%), and December ICE London cocoa #7 (CAZ24 ) closed up +71 (+1.23%). Cocoa prices recovered from early losses on Thursday and posted moderate gains. Short covering emerged in cocoa futures Thursday after Q3 cocoa grindings for Asia and Europe...

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Stock market today: Asian shares are mostly higher after strong earnings boost stocks on Wall St

Shares are mostly higher in Asia after U.S. stocks rose following better-than-expected profit reports from Morgan Stanley, United Airlines and other big companies

The Independent UK

Hong Kong Tech And Digitial Media Graduates Arrested For $46M Deepfake AI Scam Targeting Men In Singapore And India

Hong Kong romance scam using deepfakes raked millions from men across Asia. The victims had parted more than $46 million.

International Business Times UK

Major meeting of Asian security group begins in Pakistan to discuss security and economic ties

The leaders and officials from an Asian security group an international group founded to counter Western alliances have met in the capital, Islamabad to discuss how to boost security cooperation and economic ties

The Independent UK

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Stock market today: Asian shares track Wall St decline, as selling hits tech companies

Shares are mostly lower in Asia after U.S. stocks pulled back from their records

The Independent UK

Asian Markets Track Wall Street Losses On Worries Over Tech Rally

Asian markets mostly fell on Wednesday after a tech-led sell-off on Wall Street fuelled by worries about the sustainability of the AI rally, while oil prices clawed back some of the previous two days' hefty losses.

International Business Times

Jokowi was once seen as Indonesia’s ‘new hope’. Instead, he leaves a legacy of democratic backsliding

As Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo (Jokowi) prepares to leave office, Indonesia is still routinely lauded as one of Asia’s most important democracies. Jokowi was first elected, in 2014, on the promise of breaking with the old Jakarta elite and making government more responsive to ordinary people.

The Conversation

The lasting scars of war: How conflict shapes children’s lives long after the fighting ends

The world is witnessing some of the highest levels of conflict in decades, with more than 110 armed conflicts occurring across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and Europe.

The Conversation

UN asks Asia-Pacific countries to invest more in preventing damage from disasters

A U.N. official says disasters, including those wrought by fiercer storms, are threatening more people and could derail economic progress in the Asia Pacific region if governments would not invest more in disaster-prevention and mitigation

The Independent UK

Oil Prices Hit By Easing Middle East Fears, Most Asian Markets Rise

The sell-off came as the commodity is also hit by worries about China's economic outlook after Beijing failed to announce any new stimulus at a weekend briefing.

Latin Times

Hong Kong Police Bust Million Deepfake Romance Scam Ring

Hong Kong police arrest individuals in a deepfake romance scam targeting men across Asia, highlighting the dangers of deepfake technology in online scams.

Top News

Asian Stocks Mostly Lower, European Markets Open Higher

Global markets respond to economic stimuli and data, impacting stocks, oil prices, and currency exchange rates.

International Business Times

HashKey Capital H1 Crypto Analysis: AI Integration, TON's Potential To Challenge WeChat

Crypto had a significant run in the first half of the year, with AI integration maintain momentum, TON seeing massive growth, and zkEVM and zkVM action building up – which of the first half's top trends will continue to gain traction throughout the rest of the year?

Fortune

Thailand’s cash handouts made a ‘very good’ month even better for retail conglomerate Berli Jucker’s CEO

Thapanee Techajareonvikul, No. 47 on the Fortune Most Powerful Women Asia list, is the first female CEO of the 142-year-old Thai company.

The Independent UK

Blinken tells ASEAN the US is worried about China's 'dangerous' actions in disputed sea

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Southeast Asian leaders Friday that the U.S. is concerned about China’s “increasingly dangerous and unlawful” activities in the disputed South China Sea during an annual summit meeting, and pledged the U.S. will continue to uphold freedom of navigation in the vital sea trade…

International Business Times

Asian Markets Mixed After Wall St Drop, Shanghai Dips Before Briefing

Most Asian markets were mixed Friday as investors digested disappointing US inflation data that further dampened expectations for another bumper interest rate cut next month.

International Business Times

Asian Leaders Meet In Laos With US, Russia On World Turmoil

Asian leaders and top diplomats of adversaries the United States and Russia will meet Friday in Laos to discuss a world in turmoil as war rages in the Middle East and Ukraine.

The Conversation

Discovery of 5,000-year-old farming society in Morocco fills a major gap in history – north-west Africa was a central player in trade and culture

A new discovery of an ancient farming society at Oued Beht in Morocco fills a centuries-old gap in history. It reveals that, 5,000 years ago, the Maghreb (north-west Africa) was far from a backwater. Rather, it was an integral part of life in the Mediterranean, a region nestled between north…

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