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Japan’s COVID border ban alienates friends and allies

Author: Editorial Board, ANU Japan’s borders are closed but unlike zero-COVID China or Western Australia, it’s in the middle of an Omicron wave of infections with 100,000 daily cases and rising — though still with far fewer cases than Australia on a per capita basis. The closed-border policy is popular in Japan but it’s hurting […]

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Business

3 college friends built a $1 billion business selling used cars

  Aaron Tan is going places. As the co-founder of a newly crowned unicorn and one of Asia Pacific’s fastest growing start-ups, the Carro CEO is now on the road to a public listing. And with investors including Softbank getting onboard, he has no plans to slow down. “The question is, now that we have reached $1 billion, how do we reach $10 billion? How do we reach $100 billion?” Tan told CNBC […]

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