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Indonesian gig drivers fear hardship after fuel price hike
Indonesian gig drivers fear hardship after fuel price hike
by  AFP

Sitting on the side of a Jakarta road anxiously waiting for his phone to ping, driver Muhammad Ridwan says it is now barely worth hurtling through thick smog every day to ferry passengers. "It significantly burdens me whenever I buy fuel these days," said 38-year-old Grab driver Iwan Nur Akbar, who had waited an hour for an order to ping on his phone.

Away game: Qatar World Cup looms as money-spinner for Dubai
Away game: Qatar World Cup looms as money-spinner for Dubai
by  AFP

The United Arab Emirates did not qualify for the Qatar World Cup but it will be a winner anyway if an overspill of fans floods its hotels, restaurants and planes. Any economic windfall, and reflected glory from the first World Cup on Arab soil, will come less than two years after Doha and the UAE were daggers-drawn over a regional blockade that isolated Qatar from its neighbours.

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