Trump’s Overdue Tariff Rollback
It would behoove the administration to apply the logic of the latest relief more broadly. Source link
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Women Need Good Men
Love is the antidote to our poisonous culture of abortion. Source link
What 60 Minutes Got Wrong About Harvard and the Biomedical Research Enterprise
A recent segment was a sad attempt to cloak the shortcomings of academic science in hype, sentimentality, and public relations theater. Source link
Why Amazon is betting on a new TV OS
Black, unassuming, about the size of a pack of chewing gum: On the surface, the Fire TV 4K Select stick released in mid-October looks just like any other streaming device made by Amazon.…
Acra wants boards to scrutinise the numbers ahead of FY2025 reporting
This call to action comes amid the global economic uncertainties from trade and tariff-related risks Company directors should exercise “heightened vigilance” when preparing their FY2025…
Yangzijiang Shipbuilding bags orders worth US$2.2 billion in year to date
Yangzijiang Shipbuilding on Monday (Nov 17) announced that it has obtained about US$2.2 billion worth of orders in the year to date. This was a fifth of the US$11.6 billion in order wins…
The Beast in Me Epitomizes “Trough TV”
Danes, for her part, returns fitfully to the Homeland well. Her chin near-constantly aquiver, Wiggs is always on the verge of tears, a woman deep, deep in the midst of a nervous breakdown.…
Get to Know the Name Jay Clayton—Our Fate May Depend on His Honesty
Donald Trump’s appointments track record is just about uniformly hideous. From putting a vaccine denier in charge of public health, to having our nearly $1 trillion defense colossus run by…
SNAP Is Back, but Trust Is Broken
As Washington state was one of the states to pay out full benefits, Ligon was able to receive her SNAP payments on November 11—but only after enduring a period of significant uncertainty…
OpenAI's Fidji Simo Plans to Make ChatGPT Way More Useful—and Have You Pay For It
In case OpenAI’s structure couldn’t get any weirder—a nonprofit in charge of a for-profit that’s become a public benefit corporation—it now has two CEOs. There’s Sam Altman, chief…
The leadership skills you learn from raising kids
A few days ago, I wrapped a coaching call with a senior executive navigating a complex restructuring—work that demands steadiness in ambiguity, patience when emotions rise, and the…
Singapore stocks close lower amid mixed regional trading; STI down 0.1%
Singapore stocks ended lower on Monday (Nov 17), as markets across the region ended mixed. The benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) lost 0.1 per cent or 2.48 points to finish at 4,543.59.…
Trump Explodes in Angriest Epstein Tirade Yet as Allies Visibly Panic
Anxiety is rising among President Trump’s staunchest allies that he’s politically lost his way. The New York Times reports that his advisers fear he’s alienating key voters in his own…
Inside a Wild Bitcoin Heist: Five-Star Hotels, Cash-Stuffed Envelopes, and Vanishing Funds
As Kent Halliburton stood in a bathroom at the Rosewood Hotel in central Amsterdam, thousands of miles from home, running his fingers through an envelope filled with €10,000 in crisp…
SIA Group passenger traffic up 5.3% in October
Passenger traffic for Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Scoot rose 5.3 per cent year on year in October. The increase outpaced a 3.7 per cent rise in passenger capacity, SIA Group said in its…
From Meta to the military: The hidden costs of ‘masculinity’ at work
Early this year, Mark Zuckerberg made headlines by saying corporate culture needs more “masculine energy.” This sentiment was echoed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s call for the…
Hyundai pledges record US$85.8b investment in South Korea
Hyundai called it “the company’s largest-ever domestic investment commitment” South Korean auto giant Hyundai Motor Group pledged on Monday (Nov 17) an unprecedented US$85.8 billion…
Hong Leong Finance opens new Punggol branch with dedicated SME Centre
The outlet also contains new privacy-enhanced teller booths, replacing traditional counters Hong Leong Finance (HLF) in early November opened a new branch at Punggol Coast Mall to serve…
Busyness isn’t a badge of honor
Our culture equates busyness with importance, overcommitment with achievement, and exhaustion with value. For high-achieving professionals, this belief system isn’t just inconvenient, it’s…
Samsung hikes memory chip prices by up to 60 per cent as shortage worsens: sources
[SEOUL/SINGAPORE] Samsung Electronics this month raised prices of certain memory chips, now in short supply due to the global race to build artificial intelligence (AI) data centres, by as…
Samsung hikes memory chip prices by up to 60% as shortage worsens: sources
The chip crunch has been so severe that it has spurred panic buying by some customers, according to industry executives and analysts [SEOUL/SINGAPORE] Samsung Electronics this month raised…
Geely profit climbs despite competition, regulatory scrutiny
Geely Automobile Holdings’ third-quarter profit rose as an ongoing discounting campaign turbo-charged sales. Net income rose 59 per cent in the three months ended Sep 30 from a year…
MAS imposes S$137,000 penalty on Alpha Energy’s ex-managing director for insider trading
He has also given a voluntary undertaking not to be a director or be involved in the management of a company for two years The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has imposed a civil…
Asia: Markets struggle as fears build over tech rally, US rates
ASIAN markets struggled on Monday on simmering concerns that the Federal Reserve will not cut interest rates as hoped next month, while fears of a bubble continue to weigh on sentiment.…