The Crisis Year for Journalism Is Here
We are under no professional obligation to treat with even-handedness the would-be architects of our demise. I suspect that a lot of people were not aware that Project 2025, the…
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How AI Is Reshaping Science’s Most Trusted Tool
A new wave of tools, based on generative AI, aims to go beyond sorting papers and to automate various stages of the reviewing process. Some products, such as Elicit and SciSpace, feel like…
Who Are the AWFULs? Trump Hates Them, So They’re Doing Something Right
Nomenclature is potent. Donald Trump loves a nickname, and there is power in naming things. Once a thing has a name, it can be categorized, judged, explained, and perhaps satirized and…
Market watchers view SIA-Air India’s commercial cooperation favourably
SIA’s brand premium is unlikely to be diluted as both carriers continue to maintain their respective brands Industry watchers view favourably the recently announced commercial cooperation…
What it’s like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate
Ahmed, Melford, Breton, and their respective organizations also made their own statements denouncing the entry bans. Ahmed, the only one of the five based in the United States, also…
U.S. visas for ‘extraordinary ability’ are increasingly going to influencers and OnlyFans creators
O-1B visas are for immigrants of “extraordinary ability,” originally designed for acclaimed artists, musicians, athletes, and scholars, But increasingly they’re being handed out to people…
From Changi vaults to Asian markets, silver rallies even as caution grows
Heavy investor buying has pushed the metal into a persistent supply deficit despite softening industrial and jewellery demand From bullion vaults in Changi to trading desks across Asia,…
Thailand approves US$2 billion PCB manufacturing investment by joint venture
Thailand’s investment board said on Monday (Jan 19) it had approved an investment worth US$2.08 billion by a joint venture led by Taiwan’s Zhen Ding Technology, the world’s largest printed…
The Race to Build the DeepSeek of Europe Is On
Against that backdrop, Europe’s reliance on American-made AI begins to look more and more like a liability. In a worst case scenario, though experts consider the possibility remote, the US…
Are these 3 challenges getting in the way of growing your business?
Putting yourself out there is difficult. Rejection is tough. And feeling like you’ve gotten the rug pulled out from under you is the worst. When you’re in charge of business development,…
Singapore bourse targets global macro funds in Japan rates push
Singapore Exchange will introduce futures on longer-dated Japanese government bonds as trading in the world’s third-biggest debt market heats up. SGX will make 20-year mini JGB futures…
FCT weighs Johor Bahru retail threat with RTS Link, bets on Northern Singapore
Retail sales leakage to Johor Bahru is expected to increase from about 4 per cent to about 5 per cent The manager of Frasers Centrepoint Trust (FCT), which owns retail mall Causeway Point…
Britain eases rules for companies to raise funds
Britain’s revamped framework for raising capital came into force on Monday, aiming to make it easier and cheaper for listed and private companies to secure funds as it replaces the…
GKE to expand storage and logistics operations to Dubai by 2028
The new facility aims to serve MNCs from the chemical, manufacturing, pharmaceutical and semiconductor industries GKE Corporation is kickstarting its overseas growth strategy with an…
China’s aluminium output hits record, steel below one billion tonnes
CHINESE aluminium output rose to an all-time high last year, climbing above the country’s capacity limit, while steel fell to a seven-year low, underscoring dramatically different…
Rupiah may sink past record low as fiscal woes erode BI support
The central bank is expected to keep its policy rate unchanged when it meets on Wednesday to anchor the currency Indonesia’s rupiah looks poised to weaken past a record low, analysts say,…
Raffles Education seeks shareholder nod for dual sale of China asset, Merchant Road property
Two extraordinary general meetings will be held on Feb 3; share price jumps 21.3% Raffles Education is seeking shareholder approval for the disposals of its college asset in China for…
Gold, silver jump to record highs on Trump tariff threats over Greenland
Spot silver advanced 4.4% to US$93.85 per ounce, after hitting a record high of US$94.08 Gold and silver prices surged to record highs on Monday (Jan 19), as investors flocked to…
Philippines makes first natural gas discovery in more than a decade
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Monday gas and condensate had been found at a well close to the existing Malampaya gas field off the island of Palawan, the country’s first…
YZJ Maritime proposes up to 10% share buyback as part of capital management plans
Maritime financial solutions provider Yangzijiang (YZJ) Maritime is proposing a share buyback as part of its broader capital management plans. The mainboard-listed company on Monday (Jan…
Stocks to watch: Yangzijiang Maritime, SIA, Stamford Land, Stamford Tyres, Keppel Reit
The following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their securities on Monday (Jan 19): Yangzijiang Maritime: The maritime financial solution provider on Monday…
Stocks to watch: Yangzijiang Maritime, SIA, AEM Holdings, Stamford Land, Keppel Reit
The following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their securities on Monday (Jan 19): Yangzijiang Maritime: The maritime financial solution provider on Monday…
China’s US$7 trillion cash pile is shifting into stocks, gold
With rates now sliding towards 1%, that capital is increasingly looking for a new home. CHINESE households are scouring for higher-yielding investments as roughly US$7 trillion in time…
British leader tells Trump that tariffs on Europe over Greenland are 'wrong'
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told President Trump on Sunday that it is "wrong" to impose tariffs on European nations that refuse to back his push to acquire Greenland. Source link