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BANGKOK, April 3 (Bloomberg): Rather than follow in his family’s footsteps, Chatchaval Jiaravanon ( pic), a member of Thailand’s richest clan, likes to strike out on his own. After trying wind farms, credit cards and buying Fortune magazine, his latest venture marries blockchain with finance. He invested about US$10 million in 2018 to create Lightnet, a remittance service that uses a decentralized blockchain system to transfer money to a different country within a day, he sa...

Posted : 2021-01-17 14:30 By Kwon Mee-yoo Poet Choi Jeong-ryePoet Choi Jeong-rye passed away Saturday at the age of 66. Known as one of Koreas most exacting and innovative poets, Choi wrote prose poems drawing strange qualities out of everyday experiences. The poet was diagnosed with a rare blood disease last summer and died from cerebral hemorrhage while fighting the disease. Born in 1955 in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, Choi studied Korean poetry at Korea University and earned her doctoral ...