Leslie Shaffer

Shenton Wire editor; ex-DealStreetAsia; Ex-CNBC; ex-DJ/WSJ, financial news junkie; opinions=mine, RTs/shares aren't endorsements

[Leslie Shaffer @LeslieShaffer1]

Trying out the @LuckincoffeeO as it enters 🇸🇬 Singapore (I hope that really is the official company account. There’s no way to tell anymore)

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Surreal and maddening to see our friend in a glass cage in a Moscow courtroom. An innocent man—decent, kind, and honest—arrested for doing his job. Every day he spends in jail is an outrage. https://t.co/sGNfMJdc4H

[Leslie Shaffer @LeslieShaffer1]

I visited @AMNH and I have a new theory on why the 🦕 #dinosaurs 🦖 went extinct: neck and back pain

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Three new pieces of potential evidence
https://t.co/ksKwoigawr

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Trump has talked about bringing back death by firing squad, by hanging, and, according to two of the sources, possibly even by guillotine.
https://t.co/uLPMVxSNLY

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@BeltwayGreg @ByJasonNg It has clear pathways of legal immigration; Singapore is not anti-immigration

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#GoogleTranslateFails: Japan's power semiconductors, if left as they are, will be the second dance of logic

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Tokyo is going to make childcare for the second child free from ages 0-2yo. First one, you still gotta pay. It's a buy one-get one deal.

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@ranajitdam There was one in Geylang where I'm pretty sure they just put beef rendang in a burrito.

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Slow news day in Japan: Selling oversized garbage that can be used Listed on local governments and Mercari

[Leslie Shaffer @LeslieShaffer1]

@goldengateblond How would the House speaker affect the confirmation of Supreme Court nominees? That's done in the Senate

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@vanbadham @Ben_Davison1 Alchemy of Souls

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When Google Translate is out to get you: "Why did the Bank of Japan suddenly throw the eagle?" #StuffJournalistsLike

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@robertmuir87 Radioshack

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@BGrueskin The AP has also take a stand here: "the antisemitic rapper formerly known as Kanye West"

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@mattyglesias Vincenzo (K-drama) -- alludes to it briefly, and it's quite funny

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The coronavirus has claimed 878 lives in Singapore so far this year, more than the 828 deaths in the first two years of the pandemic combined
https://t.co/1Sd0ZJDPEx

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@bendreyfuss "core muscles"

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@ByJasonNg I know. But I'm not looking forward to the return of Twitter death threats and swatting

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