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Leslie Shaffer

@LeslieShaffer1

Shenton Wire editor; ex-DealStreetAsia; Ex-CNBC; ex-DJ/WSJ, financial news junkie; opinions=mine, RTs/shares aren't endorsements

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Trying out the @LuckincoffeeO as it enters 🇸🇬 Singapore (I hope that really is the official company account. There’s no way to tell anymore)
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Joshua Yaffa@yaffaesque18 Apr 2023
Surreal and maddening to see our friend in a glass cage in a Moscow courtroom. An innocent man—decent, kind, and honest—arrested for doing his job. Every day he spends in jail is an outrage. xitter.cf/PjotrSauer/status/1648…
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Evan in court
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I visited @AMNH and I have a new theory on why the 🦕 #dinosaurs 🦖 went extinct: neck and back pain
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Three new pieces of potential evidence forbes.com/sites/danalexande…
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Trump has talked about bringing back death by firing squad, by hanging, and, according to two of the sources, possibly even by guillotine. rollingstone.com/politics/po…
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#GoogleTranslateFails: Japan's power semiconductors, if left as they are, will be the second dance of logic
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Tokyo is going to make childcare for the second child free from ages 0-2yo. First one, you still gotta pay. It's a buy one-get one deal.
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Slow news day in Japan: Selling oversized garbage that can be used Listed on local governments and Mercari
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When Google Translate is out to get you: "Why did the Bank of Japan suddenly throw the eagle?" #StuffJournalistsLike
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The coronavirus has claimed 878 lives in Singapore so far this year, more than the 828 deaths in the first two years of the pandemic combined straitstimes.com/singapore/c…
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Twitter Was Locked Out of Its Own Twitter Account During Musk Takeover: Report businessinsider.com/twitter-…
Elon Musk's takeover was so poorly planned the company got locked out of its own Twitter account,...

Elon Musk's takeover was so poorly planned the company got locked out of its own Twitter account,...

The Twitter team finally accessed its account on Wednesday, Platformer reported, but the account has not posted since October 13.

businessinsider.com
Signs of wage inflation in Singapore. This is as much as double the norm for food service
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Casey Newton
@CaseyNewton6 Nov 2022
Multiple sources and Twitter Blind chats now saying that the company has begun to reach out to some people it laid off yesterday asking them to come back. Whoops! 🥴
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After #TwitterLayoffs Friday, I’m waiting for a potential #TwitterApocalypse Monday, when #ElonMusk discovers some of those employees were very, very necessary
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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means
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Just in case you were wondering … What happened in 1985 when the pound was last so low? | The Scotsman scotsman.com/news/politics/b…
What happened in 1985 when the pound was last so low?

What happened in 1985 when the pound was last so low?

The pound has slumped to its lowest level against the US dollar since 1985, surpassing a previous 2017 low to be worth less than 1.20 dollars.

scotsman.com
Finally whalehunting-projectbrazen-c…
Real world inflation might look bad, but there’s likely more moaning in the spirit world this month wsj.com/articles/SB100014241…
In Hong Kong, Inflation Worries Spook the Spirit World

In Hong Kong, Inflation Worries Spook the Spirit World

The living pay homage to the dead by burning paper versions of money and other items. But the value of fake bucks is escalating, creating 'inflation' in the ghostly underworld.

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