Kristine Servando
@tinssoldier
Deputy head, Asia digital/ Senior Editor at Bloomberg News. Pun machine in training (intermediate). Opinions mine, aaall mine, and RTs not endorsements.
Happy Friday! Who’s been to Greece to play golf 🏌🏻♀️or do wellness things? Send tourist tips / warnings
Just checking on the Astronomer CEO’s wife today nypost.com/2025/07/23/us-… And… just the paper digging required to find out his ex-HR chief and her husband have a mortgage with Morgan Stanley dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
Can you imagine if all it takes to lower interest rates is to bop your central bank chief on the arm? bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Donald Trump downplayed jostling with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell over cost overruns during a tour of the central bank’s renovation project But the remarkable tour still saw the president joke that he might ordinarily fire a project manager who oversaw similar cost…
How a vote targeting 'pro-China' lawmakers has split Taiwan bbc.in/4mfIEgg
Thailand-Cambodia troops exchange fire. Thailand says it was first triggered by Cambodian troops opening fire near a disputed temple site. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
This is super interesting. How China’s investments and clout have shifted in Europe bloomberg.com/news/features/…
Trump’s tariffs are changing how Europe views Chinese investments. @ACBerlin explains why some EU leaders are only too keen to welcome Beijing’s money and influence bloom.bg/3IEhNfb
15%-50% is the exact range of enthusiasm I possess at the moment! bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
🔴 LIVE DAY 655 #Israel #Palestine - Gaza hospitals recorded 15 deaths from starvation in 24 hours - Israeli strikes killed 72 Palestinians in the past day - US withdraws from Unesco because Palestine is a member state Live updates ⤵️ middleeasteye.net/live/israel-ki…
Tell me about the person in your life who buys $3 million worth of jewelry just to be on the waitlist to buy a Patek watch. Or who buys five Ferraris for a chance to buy the dream car model they want. And who gets angry when they don't get what they want bloomberg.com/news/features/…
L.A. Times owner intends to take newspaper public in coming year latimes.com/california/sto…
This showed up in defense news for me 🤣 Aussie women spend more than $727 million a year on bachelorette parties and are reportedly going broke. news.com.au/lifestyle/rela… In the same article, cue the equivalent cost of fighter jets:
Billion Dollar Whale investigative journalists say Jho Low is living in China as a strategist for the government, and may be using an Aussie passport with a Greek-sounding name. The chosen name is Constantinos Achilles Veis. Veis means "bull," right? bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Big knock to Japanese PM. It’s the first time since 1955 that a leader from Japan’s ruling LDP party won’t have majority control of at least one house of parliament bloomberg.com/news/articles/… And there were election mascotssssss
Hiroshima Prefecture just shared a video with its sports team mascots reminding people that the Upper House election will be held on July 20th. In last year's general election Hiroshima had the lowest voter turnout in Japan [48.40%].
Did you know? Myanmar is the world’s third-largest source of rare earths. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
