Lina Batarags

Singapore bureau chief for @businessinsider.

[Lina Batarags @LBatarags]

@nikkitbfh Hi Nikki, hope you are safe. I'm a journalist with Insider Inc. Can I get permission to use your video on our site, and your full name so I can credit it to you?

[Bloomberg Economics @economics]

North Korea’s decades of isolation and lack of uncensored information has caused a wide rift with South Korea, and defectors are struggling https://t.co/GaaSmGkB5n

[Susan Jakes @susanjakes]

Thanks to @NPR for inviting me to write about Dr. Jiang Yanyong, whose bravery and truth-telling prevent his admirers & friends from publicly mourning him in China, the country to which he gave and sacrificed so much. -https://t.co/TBeRCrVHcO

[Claire Landsbaum @landsbaumshell]

Happy election day! @RonDeSantisFL is poised to be reelected as Florida’s governor, and his wife, Casey, helped him get there.

Moreover, she could be the reason he ends up in the White House one day.

Read @lyzl and @leonardkl’s excellent piece: https://t.co/hbugtkTBlE

[Lina Batarags @LBatarags]

A 3-year-old slumbering with a blanket obscuring her face was one of the only survivors of the massacre at a daycare center in northern Thailand.

https://t.co/9bWtisBp9M

[Lina Batarags @LBatarags]

As employees trickled into the offices of Singapore-headquartered ecommerce platform Shopee on September 19, it became clear that this was going to be no ordinary Monday morning.

@NidhiPandurangi with more on the Shopee layoffs for @BusinessInsider:
https://t.co/zUfyuOcaci

[Luis Chaparro @LuisKuryaki]

The rise of a new genre with more appeal to a younger generation could also be a worrying sign: For years now, drug cartels have been recruiting younger Mexicans, sometimes children, as lookouts, dealers, and even sicarios. My latest for @BusinessInsider https://t.co/ffrKTHU7ni

[Lina Batarags @LBatarags]

Here's @mdes098 putting paid leftovers to the test for @InsiderInc in Singapore:

https://t.co/7BFDhtjqNy

[Lina Batarags @LBatarags]

Southwest Airlines and Guitar Center are getting roasted for a stunt that involved giving a ukulele to every passenger on a flight from LA to Honolulu
https://t.co/djKbtegj3h

@thecherylt on @InsiderNews

[Lina Batarags @LBatarags]

Read the memo Singapore billionaire Forrest Li sent to employees of Shopee, the Amazon of Southeast Asia, as the company's losses widen and it prepares for layoffs
https://t.co/Lj9Gg6PfsU

From @NidhiPandurangi for @BusinessInsider

[Lina Batarags @LBatarags]

"What goes inside homes, too, has gotten less expensive and more easily swapped out. Furniture and decor businesses now commonly release seasonal collections of new products, as though you should be changing your couch with the weather."
https://t.co/YuPKWe90NC

[Lina Batarags @LBatarags]

Macau is home to 41 casinos, and every single one of them is up for a license renewal that could change the future of Asia's Las Vegas
https://t.co/EP04qXGbfF

[Lina Batarags @LBatarags]

"The Royal Princess Cruise arrived at dusk. It was a small ship with an open upper deck. It was glowing in the dark, with strips of blue light running across the exterior. It looked like a souped-up ferry."

https://t.co/9cKI66CGDX

@mdes098 for @InsiderInc:

[Lina Batarags @LBatarags]

"The ants in my district have developed a fever and cough," another person joked.

"What do I do if I run into a snail? Where should I go?" said one commenter.

Here's @ma2loh for @InsiderInc:
https://t.co/iY22OhU9G5

[Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee]

New: How Seoul failed its most vulnerable who were flooded in their basement homes through yearslong lack of funding and planning to protect hundreds of thousands of the city’s poor, elderly and disabled.
From me & @Min_Joo_Kim_:
https://t.co/p16Cv94JQf

[Lina Batarags @LBatarags]

Jay Fai was founded in the 1980s by Supinya Junsuta. It was first awarded a one-Michelin star rating in 2018. Junsuta, who is 75 years old, remains the only chef at the restaurant today.

@mdes098 reporting from Bangkok for @InsiderInc:
https://t.co/EmIp4KV399

[Dana Schuster @DanaSchusterNYC]

Ezra Miller's unraveling: Friends fear the 'Flash' actor has lost touch with reality as Miller travels the US in body armor and faces new claims of running a cult in Iceland New from @MelkorkaLicea and @katiedwarren
https://t.co/XnxTFAiQTm

[Lina Batarags @LBatarags]

A man fell to his death and a 10-year-old boy slipped from his safety harness while crossing China's famous bridge obstacle courses, igniting an uproar over safety concerns

@ma2loh for @InsiderAsia
https://t.co/jwcM0FrSlS

[Lina Batarags @LBatarags]

The head of Frankfurt Airport says the travel chaos is partially because so many people travel with black suitcases cc @huileng_tan
https://t.co/jQL1V1feGt

[Lina Batarags @LBatarags]

"In the early months of the pandemic, Lauren Wesley and Michael Goesele developed a new hobby: The New Yorkers started driving around, casually checking out real-estate listings, just to get out of the house."

@amandagyp's latest for @thisisinsider:
https://t.co/zrdndQLsWj