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Goh Ruoxue

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Published Fri, May 3, 2024 · 08:30 AM
    • Indonesian President Joko Widodo (right) speaks with Microsoft chairman and chief executive Satya Nadella at the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta.
    • Indonesian President Joko Widodo (right) speaks with Microsoft chairman and chief executive Satya Nadella at the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta. PHOTO: AFP/INDONESIA’S PRESIDENTIAL PALACE

    This week in Asean: 

    Dear BT reader,

    I hope you got a good rest over the Labour Day holiday. South-east Asia is also in need of much respite, not just from a fiery US dollar that’s left regional currencies battered, but also from an extreme heatwave that’s killed 30 in Thailand, shut down Philippine schools and dried up rice fields and rivers in Vietnam. 

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