* Thai Elections Postponed As Violence Hits Tourist Territory—Forbes

If you're already ensconced there, give these rally sites a very wide berth. You can even take a "taxi boat" from Phra Athit pier to piers near the Grand Palace, Wat Po and the National Museum. Don't take the San Saeb Canal boats which run eastward from Wat Saket. Get back to your hotel area by dark and don't wander out to the Democracy Monument area.

* Rocket’s Lazada And Zalora Lost $235.3 Million In 2014 But Are Moving Toward Profitability—Forbes

Lazada's websites started out three years ago as inventory-based direct retailers--thus,"the Amazon of Southeast Asia" moniker. In the past year, though, the switch to a primarily "marketplace" business model was the most significant driver of revenue growth, accounting for about 70% of Lazada's monthly sales as of November last year.

* Rocket Internet – First Mover In Asia?—Forbes

So back to the "market leader" thing. The prospectus reiterates that many Rocket sites are market leaders but never defines the term. Jabong is pulling impressive user traffic in India—almost 2 million visits per day, as the data above from SimilarWeb show. But that number is nowhere near Flipkart's daily average of 2.45 million.

* The Rohingya Pipeline—Mizzima

In the beginning, the boats were relatively small and only carried 60 or 70 passengers, Rohingya Society of Malaysia President Sultan Ahmed explained. They soon became larger, squeezing in at least 200 passengers. Women and children began coming in large numbers in 2011. In 2012, large cargo boats were pressed into service; these could accommodate 600 or 700 passengers, as was seen this May in some of the boats set adrift in the Andaman Sea by traffickers.

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