Trashed Islands a Snapshot of Polluted Malaysia - Macaranga
what a region
The great hunt for the world's first LGBTQ archive
queers been here
Death of Korea's 'apartment king' leaves 100s in property purgatory
A tragic recent event in Korea: a huge landlord, owning hundreds of properties, suddenly passed away. This landlord managed to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars from his tenants - many were lending over 10x their annual salary to their landlord! So what's going on here? How could a wealthy landlord have borrowed so much from his poorer tenants? The key is a unique institution in Korea called the Jeonse system. I'll discuss some thoughts on the situation, based on a recent paper I wrote with @BaiyunJ and Seongjin Park https://twitter.com/anthonyleezhang/status/1613978295464300547
Neom: Saudi Arabia sentences tribesmen to death for resisting displacement
Saudi Arabia to execute protesting citizens ejected from their lands so overpaid consultants can pretend to build MbS's fantasy city, including a ski slope in the desert for Asian Winter Games:
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