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  2. History of Chinese currency - Wikipedia

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    Old Chinese Currency used in 1920–23. This currency was also used in Hunza state.. The use of shell money is attested to in the Chinese writing system.The traditional characters for 'goods' (貨), 'buy/sell' (買/賣), and 'monger' (販), in addition to various other words relating to 'exchange', all contain the radical 貝, which is the pictograph for shell (simplified to 贝).

  3. History of the Indonesian rupiah - Wikipedia

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    The Asian financial crisis of 1997–1998 reduced the rupiah's value by over 80% in a few months and was a major factor in the overthrow of President Suharto's government. The rupiah had traded at about 2000–3000 rupiah per 1 USD, but reached a low of 16,800 rupiah per dollar in June 1998. The currency, which had been relatively stable in ...

  4. Renminbi - Wikipedia

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    For most of its early history, the renminbi was pegged to the U.S. dollar at ¥2.46 per dollar. During the 1970s, it was revalued until it reached ¥1.50 per dollar in 1980. When China's economy gradually opened in the 1980s, the renminbi was devalued in order to improve the competitiveness of Chinese exports.

  5. Economy of Indonesia - Wikipedia

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    Indonesia nominal GDP reached 20.892 quadrillion rupiah ($1.371 trillion) in 2023, it is the 16th largest economy in the world by nominal GDP and the 7th largest in terms of GDP (PPP). Indonesia's internet economy reached US$77 billion in 2022, and is expected to cross the US$130 billion mark by 2025. [ 37]

  6. Malaysian ringgit - Wikipedia

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    As the Malaysian dollar replaced the Malaya and British Borneo dollar at par and Malaysia was a participating member of the sterling area, the new dollar was originally valued at 8 + 4 ⁄ 7 dollars per 1 British pound sterling; in turn, £1 = US$2.80 so that US$1 = M$3.06. In November 1967, five months after the introduction of the Malaysian ...

  7. List of varieties of Chinese - Wikipedia

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    "Chinese" is a blanket term covering many different varieties spoken across China. Mandarin Chinese is the most popular dialect, and is used as a lingua franca across China. Linguists classify these varieties as the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Within this broad classification, there are between seven and fourteen dialect ...

  8. High-speed rail in Indonesia - Wikipedia

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    Design: 420 km/h (260 mph) [ 5] Highest elevation. 25–824 m (82–2,703 ft) Current and proposed high-speed railway in Java, Indonesia. Indonesia operates a single high-speed rail service between two of the country's largest cities, Jakarta and Bandung. It is branded as Whoosh (short for Waktu Hemat, Operasi Optimal, Sistem Hebat, lit.

  9. Bank Central Asia - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .bca .co .id. PT Bank Central Asia Tbk, commonly known as Bank Central Asia ( BCA) is an Indonesian bank founded on 21 February 1957. It is the largest private bank in Indonesia with an asset of Rp 1.029,83 trillion (USD 68,5 billion) as of 2022. [ 2] It is headquarters at BCA Tower in Jakarta .