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8 Tips for Decorating Your Home With Thrift Store Finds

Photo by eva_blanco / Shutterstock.com Thrift stores aren’t just for the basics anymore. With a little creative vision, you can decorate your entire home with secondhand finds — and decorate it well. After 25 years of reselling what I find in thrift shops, flea markets and estate sales, I’m continually …

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War Of Attrition Continues As Shopee’s Parent Firm Loses S$2.1B – What Does It Mean For SEA?

Another Godzilla movie is about to launch later this month, but it looks like we’re witnessing a battle of quite real monsters in the e-commerce market in Southeast Asia today. Shopee’s parent company, Sea Ltd., recently posted its financial results for 2020 and they make for an interesting reading. Despite …

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How Bad Was 2020 for Tourism? Look at the Numbers.

The dramatic effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the travel industry and beyond are made clear in six charts. Numbers alone cannot capture the scope of the losses that have mounted in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Data sets are crude tools for plumbing the depth of human suffering, …

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