Gavin Newsom’s Shameless Dodge on the Homeless Crisis
California’s governor tries — and fails — to blame the state’s homelessness epidemic on someone, anyone else. Source link
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SIA Engineering inks S$1.3 billion deal to service SIA, Scoot fleets
The company will provide support for two years, with an option to extend by one year Mainboard-listed SIA Engineering (SIAEC) signed fresh services agreements with national carrier…
RHB names its S-Reit top picks on softer interest cost pressures, minimal tariff impact
RHB analysts maintained their “overweight” call on Singapore-listed real estate investment trusts (S-Reits) amid “softer interest cost pressures” – particularly for Singapore-centric…
Hong Kong dollar funding cost drops in FX intervention aftermath
Hibor extended its drop as it fell below 1% on Tuesday (May 20) for the first time since 2022 Hong Kong’s key interbank borrowing cost slumped following foreign-exchange…
Japan’s Honda to scale back on electric vehicles, concentrate on hybrids
The company says it expects to sell 2.2 million to 2.3 million hybrid vehicles by 2030 Honda Motor said on Tuesday (May 20) that it was scaling back its investment in electric…
Asia: Markets rebound to track Wall Street up as China cuts rates
Asian markets rose on Tuesday as investor sentiment returned following the previous day’s US rating-fuelled losses, with sentiment also boosted after China cut interest rates to historic…
China banks cut deposit rates to aid margins, drive spending
MAJOR Chinese banks cut deposit rates again, in the latest efforts to preserve their shrinking profitability and drive consumers to spend more amid a flagging economy. Lenders including…
Nippon Steel boosts investment pledge for proposed US Steel deal
Trump has ordered another CFIUS review of the national security implications of the combination of both companies Nippon Steel has bolstered its pledge to invest in United States…
Can Sam Altman Be Trusted with the Future?
In 2017, soon after Google researchers invented a new kind of neural network called a transformer, a young OpenAI engineer named Alec Radford began experimenting with it. What made the…
After rocky week, Coinbase becomes first crypto exchange to join the S&P 500
Coinbase on Monday became the first cryptocurrency exchange to join the Standard & Poor’s 500 index, marking a pivotal moment for the digital assets industry. The inclusion on the S&P 500…
SAG-AFTRA files unfair labor charge against use of Darth Vader's voice in 'Fortnite'
James Earl Jones’ voice of Darth Vader is one of the most recognizable sounds in movie history — and now it’s at the center of a fight over the use of artificial intelligence. On Monday,…
The Biden Diagnosis
We wish the former president well, but there is nothing untoward or scurrilous about the citizenry asking who knew what — and when. Source link
Who Is the President Here?
On Russia and beyond, the VP seems to be signaling policy preferences that do not comport with those of the administration he serves. Source link
The World Health Organization Is Excluding Taiwan — at China’s Behest
It is time for the WHO to take a more pragmatic and inclusive approach — one that puts public health above politics. Source link
23andMe sells gene-testing business to DNA drug maker Regeneron
Bankrupt genetic-testing firm 23andMe agreed to sell its data bank, which once contained DNA samples from about 15 million people, to the drug developer Regeneron Pharmaceuticals for $256…
DFI Retail Group’s Q1 underlying profit falls 18% on sale of Chinese supermarket
DFI Retail Group’s underlying profit for Q1 2025 fell 18 per cent compared with the same period a year ago, due to the divestment of Yonghui Superstores last year. The Chinese supermarket…
Airbus in talks with Malaysia Airlines for its A220 planes
Airbus sees potential for the A220 in Malaysia, where about 150 of its other commercial planes operate European planemaker Airbus is holding talks with airlines in Malaysia for…
Mixing the Political and the Personal: Trump’s Swap Scheme and Crypto Reserve
The conflicts of interest can’t be ignored. Source link
Trump’s Tariffs Are About Rent Extraction, Not Rent-Seeking
If Trump did not impose these tariffs to support rent-seeking firms, then why did he do it? Source link
The Anti-Natalist Terrorist
An attack on an IVF clinic in the name of a lunatic cause. Source link
It’s Time to Rein In Nationwide Injunctions
The Supreme Court can help restrain excessive nationwide injunctions, but only Congress can fix the problem at its roots. Source link
Pope Leo XIV: A Love Story
The first pontiff from the U.S. is Catholic. Maybe he’ll make Catholics Catholic, too. Source link
Pavement Inspires a Strange, Loving Bio-Pic
I once assumed that Pavement would be forgotten by later generations, just as the knowing, sarcastic wit of the nineteen-nineties came to seem passé in the two-thousands. The band’s music…
How Barry Diller Stayed on Top
Throughout, Diller occasionally muses on the excellence of a script—“Raiders of the Lost Ark” was, he says, “perfect from the first word”—but he is, appropriately, far more preoccupied…