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IHH Healthcare Q1 profit falls 33% to RM514 million on exceptional items
Integrated healthcare operator IHH Healthcare on Thursday (May 29) posted a 33 per cent fall in net profit to RM514 million (S$156.3 million) for its first quarter ended Mar 31, from RM768…
Mubi Expands Theatrical Operations to Italy With Former Lucky Red Exec Gabriele D’Andrea in Charge
Mubi is set to expand its theatrical operations in Italy as Efe Cakarel, CEO of the global streamer, producer and film distributor, recently anticipated in an interview for a Variety cover…
India bank frauds triple to 360 billion rupees as credit scams swell
The rise in cases underscores the challenges being faced by the banking regulator Bank frauds in India jumped threefold last year, with loans contributing to bulk of the cases,…
America’s Arsenal of Democracy Needs a Reboot
The only way the United States can build materiel at scale is to harness the power of our commercial manufacturing industry. Source link
The Addled Activist Mind
Argumentum ad Hitlerum is only one of the logical fallacies extremists use to justify nonsense. Source link
Hidden Monsters
Surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec assaulted hundreds of patients. Why didn’t anyone stop him sooner? Source link
Elite and Effete Universities Get Their Comeuppance
They’re not entitled to endless money, tax breaks, and visas, and they have to obey the law. Source link
San Francisco’s ‘Equity’ Grading Would End Education
It’s a disaster that would have needlessly harmed students. Source link
Golden Dome and Its Enemies
Guess what? Hostile powers prefer to be able to nuke us with relative ease. Source link
Corruption Is Bad, Actually
When politicians use the levers of government to enrich themselves, it damages democracy. Source link
So much for corporate Pride: A quarter of NYC’s Pride sponsors have backed out
Last week, the nonprofit that runs New York City Pride revealed that around a quarter of its corporate donors have either canceled or diminished their support this year. The pullback has…
Pride Month 2025 Collections From Companies That Give Back to the LGBTQIA+ Community: Clothing, Shoes and More Products With Purpose
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, WWD may receive an affiliate commission. Pride Month originated in 1999, when President Bill…
Jack Whitten Went Hard in the Paint
He poured the paint in layers and combed through it with an Afro pick. Or he froze and shattered it, reassembling the shards into new wholes. Like an alchemist, he altered its consistency…
Is “The Phoenician Scheme” Wes Anderson’s Most Emotional Film?
Wes Anderson’s new film, “The Phoenician Scheme,” is a funny-ha-ha comedy, but there’s nothing funny about its story, which involves a wealthy industrialist’s attempts to realize a…
Dior Confirms Maria Grazia Chiuri Is Stepping Down
PARIS — Maria Grazia Chiuri is stepping down as artistic director of women’s collections at Dior, where she oversaw a golden age of growth thanks to a mix of commercially successful…
There Is Nothing “Humanitarian” About Israel’s New Gaza Aid Plan
Israel has engineered this new system so the greater mass of Gazans will be more concentrated, simpler to spy on, and easier to control. Security cameras and biometric testing are planned…
The MAGA War on Science Is Deadly—and It’s Just Getting Started
Over the past century, universities have emerged as key nodes in the scientific establishment that converts public funds into research. On the whole it has been a spectacularly successful…
The Republican Plot to Let People Die of Heatstroke
Soaring electricity bills force lower-income households to choose between keeping the air on and necessities like food and childcare. Discussions about Republican attacks on climate policy…
What will power AI’s growth?
As I discovered while I continued that line of reporting, building new nuclear plants isn’t so simple or so fast. And as my colleague David Rotman lays out in his story for the package,…
Trump’s DOJ Has Put Reproductive Health Clinics Under Threat
“It’s always just that much more frustrating when do something, and maybe the cops do come and they ask them to stop, but there’s no no charges, there’s no accountability, there’s no…
Keppel appoints ex-DBS CEO Piyush Gupta as deputy chairman from Jul 1
Keppel has appointed former DBS chief executive Piyush Gupta as deputy chairman and non-executive independent director of its board, effective Jul 1. Gupta will also be appointed a member…
Singapore stocks rise after US court blocks Trump’s tariffs; STI up 0.1%
Singapore stocks ended higher on Thursday (May 29), after a US trade court on Wednesday blocked US President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs from going into effect. In Singapore,…
NTT Docomo to buy SBI’s online bank for 420 billion yen in cut-throat market
NTT Docomo is buying SBI Holdings’ online bank in a 420 billion yen (S$3.7 billion) deal to shore up the Japanese mobile carrier’s financial offerings in a hyper-competitive market. Nippon…