Life

Filipina wins transgender pageant in Pattaya

By Reuters and published by US News & World Report FILIPINA Fuschia Anne Ravena was crowned Miss International Queen 2022 on Saturday at a contest in Pattaya billed as the world’s largest and most popular transgender pageant. The 27-year-old business owner beat 22 other contestants for the crown, with the second and third place going

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Technology

Multiple global websites down amid widespread Internet outage

By Channel NewsAsia and agencies SEVERAL international websites were down today (June 8), including Amazon, Reddit, CNN, The Guardian and The New York Times. Error messages appeared on the websites at around 1000 GMT (5pm Thai time). Some reports pointed to a glitch at US-based cloud computing services provider Fastly. Most of Fastly’s coverage areas

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Business Technology

Wall Street will never be the same again

(New York) – This week, the biggest story in the financial markets is the absurdist, (pretty-sure-I-hallucinated-it) drama involving GameStop, a struggling video game retailer that became the rope in a high-stakes tug of war between Wall Street suits and a crusading internet mob. The simplest explanation for what happened is that a bunch of hyper-online

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