
2025-07-04 01:30:45
Sources: Samsung is delaying completion of its Texas fab due to a lack of customers; the plant was meant to come online in 2024 before being pushed to 2026 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/S…
Sources: Samsung is delaying completion of its Texas fab due to a lack of customers; the plant was meant to come online in 2024 before being pushed to 2026 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/S…
Vietnam ends two-child policy as birth rate hits record low | The Straits Times
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/vietnam-ends-two-child-policy-to-stem-falling-birth-rates
CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC expects record profit in 2025 despite geopolitical, tariff, and FX risks, and confirms it's not building a fab in the Middle East (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/
Asia Warming at Twice the Global Average: WMO Report #Asia
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australias-qantas-confirms-cyber-incident-one-its-contact-centres-2025-07-01/
Australia's Qantas says 6 million customer accounts accessed in cyber hack
SoftBank and Intel form Saimemory, a new company to develop stacked DRAM memory chips for AI that consume ~50% of the power of current HBM in the next two years (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/
„This year, over 11.7 million people applied for Schengen short-stay visas. Globally, demand rose by more than 13%.
But for African applicants, that just meant more money lost.
Analysts estimate Africans lost €60 million (around US$67.5 million) in visa fees in 2024 alone — just for rejections.“
Via Sham Jaff's excellent newsletter https:…
@… ‘Norse’ voyages to North America would be crewed by people who included Icelanders, Greenlanders, a Turk, and two Scots.
What an interesting new study!
https://
Integrating Emerging Technologies in Virtual Learning Environments: A Comparative Study of Perceived Needs among Open Universities in Five Southeast Asian Countries
Roberto Bacani Figueroa Jr, Mai Huong Nguyen, Aliza Ali, Lugsamee Nuamthanom Kimura, Marisa Marisa, Ami Hibatul Jameel, Luisa Almeda Gelisan
https://arxiv.org/abs/25…
China Really Wants to Attract Talented Scientists. Trump Just Helped. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/world/asia/trump-science-visa-china.html
"While crop seed vaults are common around the world, nurseries for wild and native plants are rare, and many plant species quietly become extinct. This marks #Gurukula out as a Noah’s ark for endangered plant species."
Political turmoil in Washington has dried up job opportunities in what Professor Ladher calls
“the best research ecosystem in the world.”
Some decided they would now rather take their skills elsewhere, including Austria, Japan and Australia,
while others opted to stay in India.
As the Trump administration moves with abandon to deny visas,
expel foreign students and slash spending on research,
scientists in the United States are becoming increasingly alarm…
Earlier this month, #TomPatterson released a free (public domain) print-quality physical map of maritime Southeast Asia. It could actually almost double as a map of SEA except the northern part of Myanmar is cut off. 🗺️
https://
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at another site ban in India, China’s ‘convenient’ virtual ID and Japan’s power challenges in the face of datacentre construction.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/indi
Trump says he will 'get the conflict solved with North Korea' (Trevor Hunnicutt/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/trump-says-he-will-get-conflict-solved-with-north-korea-2025-06-27/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250627/p151#a250627p151
Centific, an AI "data foundry" that works with businesses to develop, train, and deploy their AI models, raised a $60M Series A led by Granite Asia (Nicholas Gordon/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/asia/2025/06/25/centi…
10th Enemy Encounters Webinar “Rumours and 19th-20th Century Religious Resistance, State Repression and Maoist Campaigns in China”
https://ift.tt/McsiIOX
Girlhood Studies (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Dear Colleague, Dear Colleague,Dear Colleague, The…
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A look at Tokyo-based Nittobo, currently the only supplier in the world of the highest-end "T-glass", a material essential for making high-powered AI servers (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Techn
Consent for Processing Personal Data in the Age of AI: Key Updates Across Asia-Pacific
https://fpf.org/blog/consent-for-processing-personal-data-in-the-age-of-ai-key-updates-across-asia-pacific/
Der diesjährige #Monsun im #Himalaya-Raum wird heißer und nasser als üblich.
Laut International Center for Integrated Mountain Development drohen vermehrt #Überschwemmungen,
Tammikuussa, ennen kuntavaaleja, Malmin lentoaseman ystävät ry kirjoitti "Malmin lentokentän tulevaisuus on nyt helsinkiläisten käsissä" (siis vaaleissa).
No kuinka kävi? Demarit ja vasemmistoliitto voittivat isosti, Kokoomus ja varsinkin Perussuomalaiset hävisivät.
Ei tainnut Malmi-asia olla kovin tärkeä helsinkiläisille.
Onkohan Malmin lentoaseman ystävät ry nyt sitten sitä mieltä että "Malmin lentokentän tulevaisuus oli helsinkiläisten käsissä ja he sanoiv…
In today's episode, CIDRAP Director Dr. Michael Osterholm discusses the latest federal actions on vaccine policy, reports on a new COVID variant sweeping Asia, and gives an update on measles cases across North America. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science/episode-184-fools-gold-reframing-science
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23336 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eco…
Russia is systematically recruiting migrant workers from Central Asia to fight in its war against Ukraine as "cannon fodder".
Citizens of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and other countries in the region are increasingly being drawn into Russia's war effort under duress or with misleading promises, HUR said.
Many of those recruited are reportedly killed on the front lines.
According to HUR, Russia's security servicestarget migrant workers who arrive in the country …
South Korea police detain six Americans trying to send cash, rice to North Korea (Ju-min Park/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-police-detain-six-americans-trying-send-cash-rice-north-korea-2025-06-27/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250627/p153#a250627p153
Fog ransomware attack on Asia financial org draws attention over use of employee monitoring software https://therecord.media/fog-ransomware-incident-asia-financial-org-employee-monitoring
It's incredible that the Alberta Premier continues to claim a pipeline to the Northwest (Prince Rupert) is possible. Premier Eby was not there because he was in the middle of a pre-planned trip to Asia (Japan, South Korea, Malaysia). And he said today there won't be any reconsideration of another oil pipeline, "decarbonzed" or not. And Japan has no interest in heavy oil anyway.
"But Eby continued to pour cold water on other premiers' talk of building another oil pipeline across B.C. to the coast, saying there is already the taxpayer-owned Trans Mountain Pipeline, which is not being used to full capacity.
He added that the Japanese don't want heavy oil and thermal coal. And he has not altered his stance against lifting the heavy oil tanker ban on B.C.'s North Coast.”
#CanPoli #ABPoli #SKPoli #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction #EndFossilFuels #Memes #StarWars
Chinese automaker Geely's ride-hailing arm CaoCao raised $236M in a Hong Kong IPO, listing 19% below its offer price; its market cap was $2.42B as of Wednesday (Kensaku Ihara/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Marke
Post Edited: Orient trifft Asia im “My fcking Breakfast Club” https://weddingweiser.de/orient-trifft-asia-im-my-fcking-breakfast-club/
JUNO 20-inch PMT and electronics system characterization using large pulses of PMT dark counts at the Pan-Asia testing platform
Caimei Liu, Min Li, Narongkiat Rodphai, Zhimin Wang, Jun Hu, Nikolay Anfimov, Lei Fan, Alberto Garfagnini, Guanghua Gong, Shaojing Hou, Xiaolu Ji, Xiaoshan Jiang, Denis Korablev, Tobias Lachenmaier, Si Ma, Xiaoyan Ma, Zhe Ning, Alexander G. Olshevskiy, Zhaoyuan Peng, Zhonghua Qin, Tobias Sterr, Yunhua Sun, Alexander Felix Tietzsch, Jun Wang, Wei Wang, Yangfu W…
The new Albion Online update makes the tutorial more complete...just tested it with a new character on Albion Asia.
Now since the tutorial is over(it ended on a showroom island! They let you visit a "demo island" now!!!) I'm heading back to Albion EU to check up on my MastodonFedivers character.
#AlbionOnline
Mongolian Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene resigned this Wednesday after weeks of anti-corruption protests in Ulaanbaatar.
The anti-government demonstrations had begun following reports of extravagant spending by the son of the former Prime Minister. The protests, primarily led by young Mongolians, centered on broader concerns about government corruption, inequality, and the influence of political elites and their families.
1/ It's really hard to miss a particular demographic in Italy. Almost every cycle-based food delivery driver, outdoor market fruit/veg/cheap trinket seller, etc., is clearly from South Asia, down to the language and music. It's really stark. #Italy25 ↵
South Korea becomes Asia's best-performing stock market in H1 2025, as shares rise following President Lee Jae-myung's pledge to allow won-based stablecoins (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4b19bf90-4202-4fe7-8caf-d7db6deeb768…
World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts (James Glanz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/world/asia/us-science-cuts.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p6#a250531p6
"Le bouddhisme est généralement associé Š la paix, Š la tolérance et Š la compassion. Mais comme toutes les autres grandes religions, il a un côté violent."
#religion #bouddhisme
It's impressive how much crypto theft can be automated using ChatGPT to monitor wallets and then automatically pluck out currency.
North Korean hackers automate crypto crime with ChatGPT
https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/chatgp…
How did I miss this? Why didn't anyone tell me that #Mongolia's PM resigned? Why isn't this a bigger world story?
https://www.straitstimes.com/asi…
OK, wer von euch hat #CellsAtWork als Asia-Realfilm bei #Netflix bestellt? Und wer hat den Macher*innen solche Drogen gegeben? Oo
https:/…
10th Enemy Encounters Webinar “Rumours and 19th-20th Century Religious Resistance, State Repression and Maoist Campaigns in China”
https://ift.tt/RFQYAsh
TOC: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, vol. 46, no. 3 (March 2022) Dutch…
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Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the results of Australia’s age assurance trials, plus signs of regret over US chip bans to China.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/australia-okays-age-assuran…
An Anarchist Approach to the Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum
Asia Matthews, Vincent Bouchard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18811 https://
NASA: May 2025 was the 2nd warmest May on record, globally: 1.07°C above the 1951-1980 average. Only May 2024 was warmer.
Highest anomalies in the Siberian Arctic, Central Asia, and the West-Antarctic.
#globalwarming #ClimateChange
My Albion Asia character now...since Albion EU is offline...we got a new member who is online 2/9 online including me.
1st pork pie...then I'll try to login into Albion EU again...
T5 mining xp in K then: 12k
T5 mining xp now:
T5 Mining skill then: 8%
T5 mining skill now: 9%
TP cost: 2k
repairs: 6k
2 pork pies: 10k
total expenses: 18k
Profit:
55k
Clean Profit: 37k
“We’re in a moment when the moral forces of the world and religious forces of the world have a deep responsibility to say it doesn’t have to be this way.”
—The Divinity School's William Barber in today's NY Times speaking about the wars, polarization, inequality, disinformation, and other challenges #PopeLeo must contend with as he begins his papacy
Analysis: Nvidia's $500B US spending plan has accelerated the US AI server ecosystem development, with at least eight suppliers unveiling new investment plans (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technol…
Xi Pushes to Deepen Central Asia Influence With Kazakh Visit (Nariman Gizitdinov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-15/xi-takes-push-for-global-sway-to-central-asia-with-kazakh-visit
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p18#a250616p18
Floods and Droughts in Asia, Europe, and America
Hiroshi G. Takahashi, Masashi Kiguchi, Shiori Sugimoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10695 https://
Das #Rezept des Tages:
Gebratenen #Nudeln essen wir ja meist nur am #Schnellimbiss. Aber man kann dieses Gericht auch mit
10th Enemy Encounters Webinar “Rumours and 19th-20th Century Religious Resistance, State Repression and Maoist Campaigns in China”
https://ift.tt/bN6KWdf
TOC: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, vol. 46, no. 3 (March 2022) Dutch…
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Q&A with Tamara Bralo, the head of journalist safety at Radio Free Asia, on Trump's cuts, the future of at-risk visa holders, jailed staffers abroad, and more (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/tamara
Vietnam Abolishes Death Penalty for Embezzlement and Other Crimes - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/world/asia/vietnam-death-penalty-law.html
New Zealand-based Halter, which provides smart collars and geofencing software for the dairy industry, raised a $100M Series D led by Bond at a $1B valuation (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
Southeast Asian provider of ‘infrastructure laundering’ for scams is sanctioned by US https://therecord.media/southeast-asian-provider-of-scam-infrastructure-sanctioned
Distributional Consequences of Political Freedom: Inequality in Transition Countries
Monika Weso{\l}owska, S{\l}awomir Ku\'zmar, Bartosz Totleben
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23336
ALBION EU WENT OFFLINE
ALBION ONLINE ASIA server probably online though!
Faction Warfare RANDOM ENCOUNTERS and partying up!
Rank then: Legionnaire (10%)
Rank now: Man-at-arms (10%)
Points then: 36k
Points now: 0k
Repairs then: 45k
Repairs now: 3k
More expenses:
TP Home: 0k
Unconventional: 0k
Profit then: 50k
Profit now: 0k
Albion EU went offline!
This headline is a *bit* deceptive. Only visa holders from two countries in #Asia are impacted - #China and #NorthKorea
Of course, North Koreans can't get visas, so it really only applies to
Chinese propaganda surges as the U.S. defunds Radio Free Asia - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/06/trump-radio-free-asia-cuts-china-propaganda/
South Korea’s New AI Framework Act: A Balancing Act Between Innovation and Regulation
https://fpf.org/blog/south-koreas-new-ai-framework-act-a-balancing-act-between-innovation-and-regulation/
TSMC opens a joint research lab with the University of Tokyo, the company's first with a university outside Taiwan, expanding a relationship that began in 2019 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology…
A Cytology Dataset for Early Detection of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Garima Jain, Sanghamitra Pati, Mona Duggal, Amit Sethi, Abhijeet Patil, Gururaj Malekar, Nilesh Kowe, Jitender Kumar, Jatin Kashyap, Divyajeet Rout, Deepali, Hitesh, Nishi Halduniya, Sharat Kumar, Heena Tabassum, Rupinder Singh Dhaliwal, Sucheta Devi Khuraijam, Sushma Khuraijam, Sharmila Laishram, Simmi Kharb, Sunita Singh, K. Swaminadtan, Ranjana Solanki, Deepika Hemranjani, Shashank Nath Singh, Uma Handa, Manvee…
Singapore leads multinational operation to shutter scam centers tied to $225 million in thefts https://therecord.media/asia-scam-center-takedowns-singapore-police
10th Enemy Encounters Webinar “Rumours and 19th-20th Century Religious Resistance, State Repression and Maoist Campaigns in China”
https://ift.tt/t2fIjp5
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Some mining today on Albion Asia when Albion EU was offline for maintenance.
As of this moment the guild "Mastodon Fediverse 100 Tax" got 8 members and 3 are online including me.
#AlbionOnline #MastodonFediAsia
MAGNA: Asia Pacific ad revenue grew 7.9% in 2024 to $288B led by digital advertising; TV budgets declined by 1.9%, print dropped by 3%, and radio fell by 4.2% (Alisha Buaya/Mediaweek)
https://www.mediaweek.com.au/magna-forecast-apac-ad-revenue-gr…
Careem, Uber's ride-hailing MENA arm, will suspend its decade-old Pakistan service on July 18, citing economic challenges, competition, and capital constraints (Ariba Shahid/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
Teaching Writing in English at the Decolonial Turn in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia
https://ift.tt/kz8rd5B
updated: Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:46pmfull name / name of organization: Kate Koppy (NES) and…
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Dozens arrested across Asia in global infostealer malware crackdown https://therecord.media/dozens-arrested-infostealer-interpol-crackdown
Turning to Online Forums for Legal Information: A Case Study of GDPR's Legitimate Interests
Lin Kyi, Cristiana Santos, Sushil Ammanaghatta Shivakumar, Franziska Roesner, Asia Biega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04260
Warner Bros Discovery plans to launch HBO Max in 12 countries in July, mostly in Europe and some in Asia, bringing it to around 90 territories in total (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…
In the end, the Iranian Military's statement sounds at least to me like this is a one-and-done retaliation on USA assets. Nothing further unless there is “repetition”?
"Any repetition of U.S. aggression will lead to the acceleration of the collapse of the U.S. military pillars in the region, their ignominious escape from West Asia, and the realization of the common aspiration of the Islamic Ummah and the freedom-loving nations of the world in eradicating the cancerous tumor of Zion.’”
#Iran #USA #Israel #IsraelIranWar #MiddleEast
CFP: “Entangled Histories, Emerging Futures: South Asia in a Multipolar World“
https://ift.tt/nKTetiI
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Before returning to Albion EU I wanted to get at least full T4 gear on Albion Asia plus Avalonian Pickaxe after using learning points to get to T4 mining. Upgrade costs are part of the data.
As of this moment I give a brief glance at all members in the guild "Mastodon Fediverse 100 Tax":
1/7 online. The 1 that's me of course.
Here are my notes on etherpad(attached image)
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Alexander Borodin, Philharmonia Orchestra & Geoffrey Simon:
🎵 In the Steppes of Central Asia
#AlexanderBorodin #PhilharmoniaOrchestra #GeoffreySimon
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Hior Chronik:
🎵 Yellowed Leaves Drift Down (feat. Natalia Tsupryk & Asia Dojnikowska)
#HiorChronik
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Thn7RyLmtnZilAzLg1U56
72k silver richer after my 30 minute T4 mining round and probably my last one on Albion Asia for now.
As of this moment I give another brief glance at all members in the guild "Mastodon Fediverse 100 Tax":
Still 1/7 online with the 1 also still being me.
Here are my notes on etherpad(attached image) where I've made available some data...
Trivia: Premium cost is 39 M silver.
Part of the reason I create guilds with "fediverse" and "mastodon" is pretty much about "flying the flag" but except that...
Neither Mastodon nor Fediverse are part as any names chosen in guilds in Albion.
Albion West:
Fediv = no result
Mastodon = results yes but irrelevant?
Albion EU
Fediv = only my guild
Masto = my guild was the only relevant result
Albion Asia
Fedi = only my guild relevant
masto = same
Albion EU was offline, now probably not.
During that time I went for a 30 minute pork pie mining round in Believer Tor(T5) on the Albion Online Asia server.
This is some data I noted down on etherpad based on my mining round.
I got 42k silver as you can see. Not much...maybe that's like a joke to you...
#AlbionOnline
Singapore-based investment app Syfe raised a $53M Series C extension, taking the round to $80M and total funding to $132M, and plans to expand into Hong Kong (Sam Phillips/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tec…
I wonder for how long I've been away from Albion Asia.
What I gathered I can only imagine where I got it from.
I got a full lumberjack set so no mystery there...
Selling:
* Sell Order(SO): 582 T3 logs for ~51k
* 7k T4 logs
* 6k T3 hide
* 5k T5 fish
* 2k T3 fish
#AlbionOnline
Backed by #Japan, governments across #Southeast Asia are turning to #carbon capture and sequestration (#CCS) to hit their
Beyond papers: understanding the making of citizenship in the Foreigners’ Tribunals of Assam
https://ift.tt/XE7lcMT
Fariya Yesmin's new article Beyond papers: understanding the making of citizenship in the…
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