'The Great Fire Sale of #London : £100 billion worth of companies are on the way out of London Stock Exchange so far this year, either by being bought up or via moving the main home for their shares overseas, and experts fear there is much more to come' standard.co.uk/business/londo…

'4 people were taken to hospital after Household Cavalry horses ran loose through central #London smashing into cars, a taxi & a bus. A group of 7 horses and six soldiers were on an extended exercise in Belgravia on Wednesday morning when chaos erupted' standard.co.uk/news/london/ho…

#Dubai was battered on Tuesday by its heaviest downpour since records began in 1949, write Laura Millan, Coco Liu & Zainab Fattah. In September #HongKong had the heaviest rain in 140 years of weather records while a superstorm burst dams in Libya
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#Singapore 's new leader is more relatable than most of the governing elites, says The Economist. 'The guitar-strumming, self-confessed nerd raised on a housing estate didn't go to any of the schools ruling party high-flyers often judge themselves by' economist.com/asia/2024/04/1…

'The old is dying & the new cannot be born,' says Eddin Khoo of #Malaysia , citing Antonio Gramsci. Into that void, the King is subverting a tendency toward the nationalist & religious right, begging the question of the future of the elected government straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/r…

'America’s empire has hardly been without its sins,' says Hal Brands 'but it has nonetheless helped make the world freer and more prosperous than ever before. A world of rising autocratic empires wouldn’t be so pretty' bloomberg.com/opinion/featur…

'A South Africa with Zuma anywhere near the levers of power would be a return to the country’s worst-ever days since democracy dawned 30 years ago,' writes Justice Malala bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

`Any official acknowledgement of #HongKong ’s unique history,' says Antony Dapiran, 'seems unlikely when the ruling party of the nation state of which it forms a part regards any independent sense of identity as an existential threat' chinabooksreview.com/2024/04/04/in-…

#India stands out as the sole country with a population large enough to offset retiring factory workers in advanced economies and China, write Dan Strumpf, Anup Roy & Abhishek Gupta From 2020-40, Bloomberg Economics estimates it will add 38.7 million factory workers bloomberg.com/news/features/…

'I spent years blasting my thoughts to millions of people on X and Facebook even as I fell behind on correspondence with dear friends,' writes Ezra Klein 'I have stored everything and saved nothing' nytimes.com/2024/04/07/opi…

When Malaysia released statistics in February showing that over 1 million of its nearly 2 million diaspora reside in Singapore, it set off yet another round of hand-wringing over the country’s decades-long brain drain problem... straitstimes.com/opinion/migrat…

From software and travel recoveries to worries for HK retail and Chinese IPOs, our '10 Focus Ideas to Watch for 2Q' identify catalysts that could shift mkt perceptions for Salesforce, Accor, Chow Tai Fook, Tencent, Pirelli... More on Bloomberg Intelligence at blinks.bloomberg.com/news/stories/s…

China has dethroned the US to become the top alignment choice for Southeast Asians as Washington loses ground on a range of key issues from regional economic engagement to the Israel-Hamas War, writes Philip Heijmans, citing a new ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute survey bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

'Even with the most recent additions to #HongKong laws, and the tens of thousands who have decided to leave their city' writes Ilaria Maria Sala, 'the eulogies and lamentations overlook all those who are determined to stay, and to stay true to themselves' artreview.com/i-dont-smell-f…

#India ’s income inequality is among the very highest in the world, behind only Peru, Yemen and a few other small countries, writes Anup Roy, citing a study by economists including Thomas Piketty bloomberg.com/news/articles/…