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(I technically still work at USAID, but with the Trump administration’s elimination of the agency, we’re counting down the days we have left. A large portion of USAID will be RIF’d, or…
But here’s the rub: The bill that Moore spiked was never actually about discovering new facts to lay alongside the vast mountain of already-obtained knowledge. Rather, it’s a…
US chipmaker Qualcomm agreed to acquire Alphawave for about US$2.4 billion on Monday (Jun 9), as part of efforts to strengthen its AI technology, sending shares of the British…
When outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles occur despite highly effective vaccines being available, it’s easy to conclude that parents who don’t vaccinate their…
Fox News hosts have gotten very aggressive in pinning down Trump officials over the failures of Trump’s trade agenda. Stuart Varney sharply questioned a top official over the loss of…
Five years after the Covid pandemic fuelled an unprecedented boom in remote work, bank executives have become ever more vocal in their insistence that workers should return to the office.…
Hong Kong will maintain its currency peg to the US dollar, the financial hub’s leader said in an interview published on Monday (Jun 9), despite escalating geopolitical tensions and…
China’s most popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots such as Alibaba’s Qwen have temporarily disabled functions including picture recognition, to prevent students from cheating…
Well, it’s a sad day in the Aamoth household: I’m thinking of getting rid of the 15-year-old Asus netbook that’s been collecting dust in the corner of my office. It’s sitting atop the…
Inflation data from China on Monday morning will give a reading of domestic demand in the world’s largest crude importer Oil prices held on to last week’s gains early on Monday…
Income Insurance chairman Ronald Ong,69, will retire from his role after seven years at the helm, the company announced on Monday (Jun 9). The board has begun a succession process to…
Global investor pushback against long-term government debt is turning what normally would be a routine US bond auction into one of the most anticipated events on Wall Street this week. The…
CapitaLand Investment (CLI) on Monday (Jun 9) announced that it secured additional capital commitments from new and existing institutional investors for its value-add lodging private fund,…
Japan’s economy contracted in the first quarter, a revised estimate confirmed on Monday (Jun 9), weakness that supports the Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) cautious stance and keeps political…
China is willing to accelerate the examination and approval of rare earth exports to European Union firms and will also deliver a verdict on its trade investigation of EU brandy imports by…
OCBC on Friday (Jun 6) made a conditional exit offer at S$30.15 per share for the 6.28 per cent stake in Great Eastern it does not own, in a bid to delist the insurer. The offer, which…
The initiative is backed by major tech companies IBM, QinetiQ and Microsoft, the government says Keir Starmer will make an appearance alongside Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang on…
Bruce Flatt, the billionaire chief executive officer of Toronto-based Brookfield, is understandably bullish on the prospects of alternative investments. The Canadian investment giant has,…
Top trade negotiators from the US and China are set to hold fresh talks in London on Monday (Jun 9), offering a glimmer of hope that the world’s two largest economies can defuse tensions…
The Nasdaq 100 Index has seen a strong rally from April through early June 2025, buoyed by optimism surrounding US-China trade negotiations. This positive sentiment was reinforced by US…
Catalist-listed Zixin Group is hardly considered a household name on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). The company describes itself as “a leading biotech-focused sweet potato integrated…
Capesize The Capesize market enjoyed a strong upward trajectory this week, driven by consistent gains in the Pacific and mounting support in both South Brazil and the North Atlantic. The…
A federal judge on Sunday shot down a demand for reinstatement by three members of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting whom President Trump fired in April. Source link
Ernest Melendrez woke up early Sunday to shovel tear gas pellets and other charred and broken detritus from his neighborhood's streets, the remnants of a battle between protesters…
