Purchasing managers’ indexes (PMIs) for China and Japan showed swings in factory activity to growth in the month, in contrast to weak indicators from South Korea, Vietnam and Taiwan where declines continued.India’s factory activity expanded at the quickest pace since October 2020, a sign strong demand and output were supporting Asia’s third-largest economy.The patchy set of PMIs pointed to an uneven recovery from the pandemic, particularly in China, the world’s second-largest economy, and clouds the outlook for growth in the region, but still provided some cause for optimism.”The PMI surveys suggest that China’s economic recovery was still ongoing in May,…
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By Reuters  June 1, 2023 | 04:30pm GMT+7 A man looks at job information at an employment fair beside a street in Zhengzhou, Henan province, February 19, 2014. Photo by Reuters/Jason Lee China’s Henan province has unveiled a 100-day plan to “dynamically clear” youth unemployment as concern grows over record levels of joblessness among young adults, with millions more students due to graduate this year. The plan, to take place in colleges and universities from May to August, includes the promotion of jobs in public institutions and state-owned enterprises, second degrees and grassroots or rural employment projects.The goal is to…
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But a Ph.D. candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology now says that GPT-4’s bar exam performance that put it in the 90th percentile of test-takers has likely been overstated, and that the chatbot actually lands in the neighborhood of the 68th percentile of real test-takers—a conclusion the original researchers reject.The percentile debate is centered on how the researchers who first looked at the GPT-4’s bar exam performance calculated its score percentile—wrote Eric Martinez in a new paper titled, “Re-Evaluating GPT-4’s Bar Exam Performance.”GPT-4’s Uniform Bar Exam score of 297 would have landed the program in the 90th percentile among…
River Tales is a four-minute short documentary produced by Coca-Cola about The Ocean Cleanup’s Interceptor technology in the Mekong region, shining a light on how plastic pollution is impacting the Can Tho River and the opportunity to make a tangible difference through technology and community stock.The Interceptor Original is the first scalable technology solution to prevent plastic from entering the world’s oceans from rivers, and after years of planning, Interceptor 003 was first launched into the Can Tho River in December 2021 and is operated by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Can Tho City.Positioned downstream from the…
Like a rising number of her highly educated peers, Liang keeps trading down to try and find a source of income in China’s worst youth job market on record.”Finding a job has been really difficult,” said the 25-year-old, who lives with her parents in the northern industrial city of Taiyuan. “I told my family that I’m willing to take up manual labor and my mum straight-up cried. She felt so sorry for me.”Economists expect such examples to become increasingly common in coming years, as a glut of university graduates and a shortage of factory labor due to an aging workforce…
By Reuters  June 1, 2023 | 09:30 am GMT+7 A new trade pact is expected to strengthen economic bonds between the US and Taiwan. Photo by Reuters Taiwan and the United States will sign the first deal under a new trade talks framework on Thursday, both governments said, boosting ties between the two at a time of heightened tensions with China over the island. Taiwan and the United States started talks under what is called the US-Taiwan Initiative on 21st Century Trade last August, after Washington excluded Taiwan from its larger pan-Asian trade initiative, the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework.Taiwan’s Office of…
By Quynh Chi  June 1, 2023 | 06:00 am GMT+7 “When you reach a certain point in life, you’ll realize that there are some people who can only stay within your heart, but cannot accompany you for the rest of your life”. I once read the quote somewhere, and I think that much is true. I’ve encountered many circumstances where people get married, not for love, but because their partner is a suitable spouse for them, or it’s because they are of age.For some reason, people cannot marry the ones they truly love, which results in marriages that potentially lead…
Miss Grand International 2021 Nguyen Thuc Thuy Tien. Photo from Tien’s Instagram In November 2022, businesswoman Dang Thuy Trang filed a lawsuit against Tien demanding the beauty queen pay the total amount (worth around $102,000) in money owed, damages caused, and compensation.However, the court ruled against all the claimant’s demands on Wednesday.Trang had claimed that in June 2017, Tien had asked to borrow VND1.5 billion from her.Trang said Tien had asked for the money to help with preparations for her appearance in the Miss Southern Vietnam 2017 contest.According to Trang, Tien promised to pay the money back in full after…
But that was 10 years ago, before she met Hoang Son in 2018. He helped her realize that “being oversized is a unique advantage,” she said.”I had probably been hurt too much, and Son came to compensate,” the 30-year-old woman said of her now-boyfriend. Quynh and Son at a cafe in Ho Chi Minh City in 2022. Photo courtesy of Quynh Before meeting Son, Quynh believed that she had an “overweight” body.Her height was 1.6 meters, while her weight was 58 kilograms, about 10 kilograms more than the average weight of her peers.She was turned down for jobs many times…