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Grab is setting up a drive-through vaccination service across Indonesia with the government, plans to vaccinate 2,500 drivers and 5K people/week in Bali center (Soraya Permatasari/Bloomberg)

Soraya Permatasari / Bloomberg:Grab is setting up a drive-through vaccination service across Indonesia with the government, plans to vaccinate 2,500 drivers and 5K people/week in Bali center  —  – Grab’s Bali center is capable of giving 5,000 shots a week  — Government targets to inoculate 70 million people by August


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Escort sex workers, from countries where their profession is legal, say they are being banned from sites like OnlyFans that are bound by the US FOSTA-SESTA law (Mark Serrels/CNET)

Mark Serrels / CNET:Escort sex workers, from countries where their profession is legal, say they are being banned from sites like OnlyFans that are bound by the US FOSTA-SESTA law  —  Editors’ note: This story contains sexually explicit language and descriptions not suited for younger readers.


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First Drive Of The New Chevy Bolt EUV With Super Cruise

Chevrolet is building up to the rollout of the facelifted Chevy Bolt EV in parallel to the slightly larger Chevy Bolt EUV in the back half of this year and gave us an early look at the vehicles at an exclusive event in Los Angeles, California last week. The vehicles are noteworthy as they not…
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Q&A with Lambda School’s Austen Allred on how the company helps bridge the class divide for students, like setting up bank accounts for those who don’t have one (Antonio Garcia-Martinez/The Pull Request)

Antonio Garcia-Martinez / The Pull Request:Q&A with Lambda School’s Austen Allred on how the company helps bridge the class divide for students, like setting up bank accounts for those who don’t have one  —  Austen Allred and the class escalator  —  Austen Allred is the CEO and founder of Lambda School, a unique coding school…
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The Wikileaks-style group DDoSecrets claims that Parler-like site Gab has been breached and is now set to share 70GB of passwords, private posts, and more (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Andy Greenberg / Wired:The Wikileaks-style group DDoSecrets claims that Parler-like site Gab has been breached and is now set to share 70GB of passwords, private posts, and more  —  The transparency group DDoSecrets says it will make the 70GB of passwords, private posts, and more available to researchers, journalists, and social scientists.


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Malaysia’s Top Glove eyes HK$15bn dual listing

Malaysian rubber glove manufacturer Top Glove Corp is aiming to raise up to HK$14.95bn ($1.93bn) from a dual primary listing in Hong Kong.


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UIC taps green and SLL market for $300m

Singapore real estate company United Industrial Corp has raised a $300m loan comprising both green and sustainability-linked tranches, adding further momentum to the nascent asset class in Asia.


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Tencent-backed Tuya, Connect Biopharma ready US IPOs

Tuya, an internet-of-things cloud platform provider, is eyeing around $100m from an IPO of American depository shares (ADS).


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The week in review: February PMIs miss the mark, CSRC finalises ‘company bond’ rules, NYSE begins Cnooc delisting

In this round-up, factory and services activity growth slows down in China, the securities regulator tweaks rules on exchange market corporate bond issuance, and the New York bourse moves ahead with delisting Chinese oil giant Cnooc on alleged military ties.


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