#Asian economy

[werr455]

Asia markets decline as investors assess Japan's inflation; Evergrande bankruptcy file in China

36 minutes ago Philippine central bank governor says there is room for further rate hikes The head of the Philippine central bank said there is room for further interest rate hikes without hurting economic growth. “I think we have room to go hiking without shrinking the economy,” Eli Rimolona, ​​governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, told CNBC. The Philippine central bank left its benchmark…

[fuzzytimes1]

Adani China returns from New Year, CSI 300, New Zealand trade

Adani Enterprises is ticking higher while the group’s subsidiaries continue to plummet shares of Adani company Soared 10% after posting sharp losses in previous sessions as its chief financial officer expressed confidence in its subsequent public offering, which is due to close on Jan. 31. The stock is still down more than 20% in the first month of the year. ‘It will probably take a decade’ for…

[aro-bird]

Okay, for aro awareness week, I need you all to start recognizing that:

NOT EVERYONE IN THE ARO COMMUNITY IS FROM THE UNITED STATES OR EUROPE.

Please, when we're having discussions about aphobia, allonormativity amatonormativity, and other issues for the love of god STOP PRETENDING THAT WE DON'T EXIST AND LISTEN TO US!

We aren't just your token aros that exist in the other side of the world just for you to prove that we are everywhere or whatever point you're trying to make, we are living, breathing human beings and members of the aro community and we deserve respect and to be remembered not as a point in your discourse but as equals.

I am sick and tired of people just assuming that everyone in the community is either from the United States or Europe and only centering those voices in the discussion. We exist too.

[buffetlicious]

Mum packed home from Chong Pang this box of Fatty Char Siu (叉烧) to add to the dishes for dinner tonight. This is my Economy Rice (菜饭) brunch with leafy cabbage stir-fry, steamed minced pork patty, curry chicken and steamed egg over white rice.

[bunibelles]

My first time at this grocery store

I go to the regular aisle and the cheapest tapioca flour is 4.19

I go to the Asian aisle for something different and I find another tapioca flour! It’s 1.99 😭

[yeastinfectionvale]

you are lactose intollerant?!?!!

yeah unfortunately I am 😭😭😭😭

[soul-of-rei]

as an asian .hearing atreus say whatever when being told to do something by kratos makes me physically flinch

[bread-tab]

i bought a cheap squishy toy and it smells like something i should definitely not be inhaling at all (kind of like gas/petrol but more factory-plasticky? i'm a retail drone not a chemist) and, of course, it was made in china.

("of course" not so much because of the price or quality but because everything is. at every price range and standard, tbh. i'm not trying to say everything made in china sucks. for the tumblr-pedantic record. rip to the workers in the stinky plastic factory though. :/)

so i was like "if this was made in america i could figure out where. we put the company address on everything here. but can i do that with an overseas company?" and the answer is yes maybe (i found the import/middleman companies and there are "trading" websites that track this stuff) but also no because i can't read mandarin. (sorry ancestors)

anyway that's how i find out about this place

yiwu "market" aka "international trade city." alleged "world's largest wholesale market." the mall to end all malls. this place sells stuff to the entire world by the shipping container. didn't even slightly exist in 1980; now does billions of dollars in trade annually which supports a city of 2 million people. which previously was just. like. a farming village.

(btw take this info with a grain of salt *please* i got it from youtube, google and wikipedia and i'm existing in an incredulous sleep-deprived haze)

literally miles of showrooms of every random manufactured item you can imagine. toys, clothes, electronics, household goods, christmas decorations...

i cannot stress enough that we do not have this kind of thing here. (... do we?) but. we have the stuff. this is where all the stuff is from. all roads lead to yiwu, apparently

sometimes you just get reminded... world big. but also. world interconnected. not so small after all. but so connected.

[gabrielll2015marques]

Mesa De Centro Sala Lizz Redonda Com Pés Em Madeira Maciça.

[isekyaaa]

I really hope that when people read articles that are like, "People of this minority group are telling you not to [insert something pertaining to said minority group]," please use your brain and take it with a grain of salt and don't accept everything you read as truth.

[linguenuvolose]

hej <33 what are we eating these days I have to go grocery shopping soon and need inspo <3

[shoujoegg]

my biggest gripe abt s&b is that everything feels so cartoony and just painfully highlights how orientalist leigh bardugo’s world imaginary is... all of the liberties they took w/ the book characters would have been fine to me if they were just properly enfleshed in the histories bardugo obliquely references w/ this national mythos drama.

[cicerobussytransplant]

the infuriating thing abt jus cogens is truly that it doesn't matter how u classify something as 'IMPORTANT' or 'pls respect this FUNDAMENTAL human right' when u have no means to enforce that. from collective recognition it came, and if the most u get is a slap on the wrist, then to collective disregard you shall return to

[buffetlicious]

Made my way to the coffee shop a couple of away from my place to buy dinner. Mum asked for the Saba Fish Bento from the Korean/Japanese stall. Half a pan-fried blue mackerel over a bed of shredded cabbages drizzled in teriyaki sauce occupied the largest compartment. White rice filled up the next biggest space with a side of kimchi and a lime.

Me went with the Economy Rice (菜饭) option and chose three dishes for my takeaway meal. Starting from the left to right, bitter gourd & egg stir-fry, stewed fried egg tofu and crispy chicken cutlet over white rice.

[carlocarrasco]

Cambodia aiming to attract 3 million to 4 million foreign tourists for 2023

Cambodia, the nation that will be hosting the 32nd edition of the Southeast Asian Games (also referred to as SEA Games and Cambodia 2023, click here and here), is aiming to attract between 3 million to 4 million foreign tourists for the year 2023 and improve over what was achieved in 2022, according to Khmer Times news report. For the year 2022, Cambodia attracted 2.28 million foreign tourists…

[kefnut-the-gweilologist]

the history of e and se asia during the middle of the 20th century is so depressing