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Hongkong Land Q3 profit falls 13% on lower contributions from its office portfolio
Hongkong Land’s underlying profit for the third quarter of its 2025 financial year is 13 per cent lower than the same period the previous year. This is primarily due to lower contributions…
IBM, Cisco outline plans for networks of quantum computers by early 2030s
IBM and Cisco Systems on Thursday (Nov 20) said they plan to link quantum computers over long distances, with the goal of demonstrating the concept is workable by the end of 2030. The move…
‘Value Unlock’ programme will help companies bridge gap with investors: industry players
Two training grants of up to S$15,000 and S$200,000 per company will be made available Industry players say training grants are important for companies to engage their investors more…
NAR says the median age of first-time homebuyers in 2025 is 40, up from 28 in 1992—but can we trust the data?
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClubnewsletter. Earlier this month, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released…
MAGA’s State-by-State Plot to Butcher Democracy
Four years later, in a racial gerrymandering case from Alabama, Allen v. Milligan (formerly Merrill v. Milligan), Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh worked together to invite the Voting Rights…
How Mikie Sherrill Won Latino Voters Back for Democrats
Sherrill’s campaign was not the only organization engaging with Latino voters. Make the Road Action New Jersey, an advocacy group that encourages Latino civic participation, engaged with…
Trump’s Case Against James Comey Is Crashing and Burning
This was already an unusual move on the grand jury’s part; the cliché is that a decent prosecutor could get one to indict a ham sandwich. (Well, with some notable exceptions.) Prosecutors…
Visions of Byzantine Hell
They were just following orders, the angels, when they shoved sinners into the River of Fire, or boiled them alive in cauldrons. It’s the economy, stupid. The frescoes in the Byzantine…
Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly Is a Cautionary Tale
Noah Baumbach first made a name for himself 30 years ago, writing and directing intelligent dark comedies about sad boys and angry men staring down the barrel of adulthood and all the…
Season in the Dark
A stone-faced man sits in a folding chair at the edge of his lawn. He’s facing out toward the street, where the threat awaits. He glares at me as if I am the threat, or the promise of the…
Buffett’s Alphabet blessing puts valuation paradox back in focus
Shares of the Google parent are up 55% this year, making them by far the top performer among the Magnificent Seven technology giants Just six months ago, Alphabet investors feared the…
How ‘micro joy’ can help you feel happier every day
In a world of hustle culture and stressors of all kinds, joy can seem both illusive and impossible. But despite barriers, you can create the conditions for happiness. Well-being and joy…
Trump’s Anger Over Prices Goes Nuclear as Fresh Polls Show Him Tanking
President Trump is cratering in two new polls. A Marist survey has his overall approval rating at 39 percent, and a Marquette poll has his approval plunging on the economy (36–64), tariffs…
UBS appoints Kwa Chong Seng as chairman for Singapore, South-east Asia
UBS has appointed corporate heavyweight Kwa Chong Seng as chairman for Singapore and South-east Asia, beginning from Dec 1. In this newly created role, Kwa will report directly to Iqbal…
Link Reit H1 DPU down 5.9% at HK$1.2688 amid macro headwinds, sectoral challenges
Hong Kong-listed Link Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit), which owns Singapore’s Jurong Point and a major part of Thomson Plaza, recorded a distribution per unit (DPU) of HK$1.2688 for…
Three things to know about the future of electricity
Look out for a coal crossover As we ask more from our grid, the key factor that’s going to determine what all this means for climate change is what’s supplying the electricity we’re using.…
How to be a multidimensional leader—without sacrificing your personal brand
Most personal branding advice assumes you’re one thing. But what if you’re not? What if you’re a strategist and an artist, a CEO and a musician, a parent and a community builder? For…
Workplaces can—and must—help quell America’s polarization
Five years ago, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong did a bold thing. He banned political conversations at work. He made this decision because he knows what the job of a business leader is: to…
Nvidia’s upbeat forecast soothes fears of AI spending bubble
The company’s results have become a barometer for the health of the AI industry Nvidia Corp, the world’s most valuable company, gave a strong revenue forecast for the current period,…
Can business schools really prepare students for a world of AI? Stanford thinks so
Business leaders are scrambling to understand the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence. But if companies are struggling to keep up, can today’s business schools really prepare…
Vietnamese airline Vietjet to resume use of Chinese-made Comac planes: sources
The airline’s flights to Con Dao will restart on Nov 25, with four daily services Vietnamese budget airline Vietjet plans to resume the use of Comac jets next week after a one-month…
China’s Lenovo signs long-term component-supply deal for next year
Global memory chip prices are climbing due to demand from data centre operators for building AI servers Lenovo said on Thursday (Nov 20) that it has signed long-term contracts for memory…
Judge blocks Trump from ending deportation amnesty for Syrians
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Wednesday to postpone its plan to end a deportation amnesty for Syrian migrants, ruling the government likely cut too many corners.…