SET Halts JAS Trading on Rumours of a US$70m FIFA World Cup Deal for Thailand; JAS Confirms...
Thailand’s Stock Exchange (SET) halted trading of FIFA World Cup 2026 frontrunner, Jasmine International (JAS), at 3.48pm this afternoon following market rumours that JAS had agreed to pay US$70 million (THB 2.3 billion) for two editions of the...
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Coupang Hit With US$408 Million Fine for 2025 Data Leak
Korean authorities have hit e-commerce platform Coupang with a record KRW 624.7 billion (US$408 million) fine for last year’s data breach involving almost 34 million users. The penalty is the largest levied for privacy breaches in Korea, and was...
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Utopai Studios Backs “Half Moon”; Hyo-Joo Yang’s German-Korean Feature “is Exactly the Kind...
Utopai Studios today announced its involvement in “Half Moon”, the new German-Korean feature from Silver Bear-winning filmmaker Hyo-joo Yang, as part of the company’s expanding original film slate. The U.S.-based AI company said it would...
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A father waited for more than a year for his son – Thai agricultural worker Pongsak Thenna – to return. Like many others, he had gone to Israel in search of work and higher pay. Instead of a better…
Prime Video’s “The Boys” dominates both digital and overall demand in Vietnam, ending the week to 17 May more than five points clear of its nearest competitor, according to Parrot Analytics. But the…
Celebrating 21 Years of Innovation Mark your calendars for September 10–13, 2026! The 21st edition of Gwangju ACE Fair will return to the Kimdaejung Convention Center, bringing together the brightest…
2.5 million migrants entered the US illegally via the southern border in 2023. Nearly 40,000 of them came from China. In “Walk the Line”, CNA correspondent Wei Du joined Chinese migrants on the…