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Seoul, South Korea – Riding the wave of enthusiasm for all things Korean, South Korea has in recent years become one of Asia’s most popular tourist destinations. Now, the cultural juggernaut known for the K-pop band BTS, the movie Parasite and Korean BBQ and kimchi is setting its sights on cornering the market for a new kind of traveller: the digital nomad. In January, the South Korean government launched its “workation” visa, joining the global trend of countries seeking an economic boost by tapping into the growing pool of transient remote workers. Marco, a software engineer from Switzerland who has…

Efforts to hammer out a temporary truce in Gaza have intensified after months of war that have left parts of the devastated territory facing imminent famine. A United Nations-backed assessment described the increasingly dire situation by noting that without a surge of aid, famine would hit the 300,000 people in Gaza’s war-battered north by May. Gaza’s 2.3 million people are trapped in the fighting, which again flared at the territory’s biggest hospital, al-Shifa in Gaza City, as an Israeli raid stretched into Tuesday. But positive signals have been reported from negotiations for a new truce that would include an exchange…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells developers conference that computing is advancing at an ‘insane’ rate.Nvidia has unveiled its latest family of chips for powering artificial intelligence as it seeks to consolidate its position as the major supplier to the AI frenzy. “We need bigger GPUs. So, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce you to a very, very big GPU,” CEO Jensen Huang said on Monday at a developers conference in California, referring to the graphics processors that are vital in the creation of generative AI. The event, dubbed the “AI Woodstock” by Wedbush analyst Dan Ives, has become…

Dareen is one of thousands of Palestinian children orphaned in Gaza, where yet another generation is growing up scarred by war.Israel’s war on Gaza has created a generation of orphans, Jordan’s King Abdullah II said, as he highlighted the mass killing of Palestinians in the ongoing offensive. One of them is 11-year-old Dareen al-Bayaa, who was severely wounded and lost 70 family members, including her parents, in an Israeli air strike on their home in Gaza. She’s just one of 17,000 Palestinian children who were orphaned or separated from their parents in the war on the territory, according to the UN.…

Tesla CEO dismisses suggestion his drug use could influence the perceptions of investors.Elon Musk has defended taking prescribed ketamine to treat his “negative frame of mind,” suggesting that his use of the drug is good for Tesla’s investors. In an at-times tense interview with former CNN host Don Lemon, Musk said that he finds the anaesthetic helpful when he is suffering from a “negative chemical state”. “There are times when I have… depression that is not linked to any negative news, and then ketamine is helpful for getting one outside out of a negative frame of mind,” Musk said during…

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Japan’s central bank begins unwinding one of the world’s most aggressive monetary easing programmes.Japan’s central bank has scrapped its negative interest rate as it finally begins unwinding one of the world’s most aggressive monetary easing programmes. The Bank of Japan on Tuesday raised the policy short-term rate from -0.1 percent to between zero and 0.1 percent – the first such hike in 17 years. Officials “assessed the virtuous cycle between wages and prices, and judged it came in sight that the price stability target of two percent would be achieved in a sustainable and stable manner towards the end of…

Twenty Palestinians were killed in the early hours of Tuesday in Rafah, while UN warns Gaza could be hit by famine between mid-March and May.Here’s how things stand on Tuesday, March 19, 2024: Fighting and humanitarian crisis Twenty Palestinians were killed in the early hours of Tuesday in Israeli air strikes on Rafah and central parts of the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian health officials. At least six people were killed in an Israeli attack on a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp. Israeli forces shelled a house in Jabalia in northern Gaza on Monday, killing at least eight Palestinians,…

Northern Gaza could be hit by famine any time between mid-March and May, and more than 70 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million population is facing “catastrophic hunger”, a United Nations-backed report published on Monday has warned. Some 300,000 people remain trapped in northern Gaza, where people have resorted to eating animal feed in desperation and at least 27 children have died of malnutrition in recent weeks as Israel has blocked the delivery of aid supplies, including food. The first aid trucks in months entered northern Gaza on Sunday. More than 31,000 Palestinians have been killed and vast swathes of the…

The Wall Street Journal report also says the Food and Drug Administration is helping to investigate the Facebook owner.US prosecutors in Virginia are probing whether Facebook-parent Meta’s social media platforms facilitated and profited from the illegal sale of drugs, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Citing documents and people familiar with the matter, the article published on Saturday reported that prosecutors sent subpoenas last year and have been asking questions as part of a criminal grand jury probe. The report added that prosecutors have also been requesting records related to drug content or illicit sale of drugs via Meta’s…