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Newspaper headlines: 'Labour's tax war' and 'banter off the menu'
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VietJet to hire more than 5,000 new Thai staff for expansion
VietJet Aviation plans to employ more than 5,000 new staff in Thailand as Vietnam’s biggest budget carrier accelerates flight and route…
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Artificial intelligence isn’t just the next big thing or a supercharged trend — it’s everywhere all at once. That includes in the…
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PR Agency Studio Beauty Acquires Wellness Firm Powers PR, Expands With Wellness Division
Studio Beauty, founded by Bex Meredith and Cindy Krupp, has acquired Powers PR for an undisclosed amount. Through the acquisition, Powers…
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UOB resumes guidance for FY2025 with trimmed forecasts amid Q2 earnings miss
UOB has resumed guidance on its full-year 2025 targets after briefly pausing them in the first quarter, but the projections are now…
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Sony lifts outlook on entertainment demand despite tariff threat
The company’s image sensors business faces weak handset demand as well as seismic shifts in the supply chain Sony Group raised its…
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Kelly Clarkson Postpones Las Vegas Residency to Be ‘Fully Present’ During Family Matter: ‘I Am Sincerely Sorry’
Kelly Clarkson is temporarily stepping away from her Las Vegas residency due to family matters. In a statement posted to X on Wednesday…
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Asia: Markets rise as Trump chip exemptions boost tech giants
Asian equities rose on Thursday, with big-name chip firms making big gains after Donald Trump said those investing in the United States…
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SingPost sells 10 HDB shophouses to Union Gas chairman for S$55.5 million
Singapore Post (SingPost) has sold 10 Housing & Development Board (HDB) shophouses for S$55.5 million, after putting them up for sale and…
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Sony Pictures Operating Income Jumps 76% in Q1 as Television Output Bolsters Results
Sony Pictures delivered a standout performance in the first quarter of fiscal 2025, with operating income climbing 76% year-on-year to…
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BlackRock’s GIP said to hire for South-east Asia infrastructure
The challenge around such ventures is creating a risk-reward structure that attracts enough private capital Global Infrastructure Partners…
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South Korea says Samsung, SK Hynix will not be subject to 100% US chip tariffs
South Korea’s top trade envoy Yeo Han-koo said on Thursday that Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix will not be subject to 100 per cent US…
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Lyft shares slide on weak sales, disappointing ride totals
Lyft shares slid in late on Wednesday (Aug 6) trading after the ride-hailing company reported revenue that fell short of Wall Street’s…
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Manulife buys Comvest to build US$18.4 billion private credit unit
Manulife Financial agreed to buy a majority stake in Comvest Credit Partners, creating a US$18.4 billion private credit platform as the…
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‘Influencers’ Review: Living Too Well Gets the Best Revenge in a Sleek Shudder Sequel
Providing a useful variation on Patricia Highsmith’s globe-trotting sociopath Tom Ripley for the social media era, “Influencer” was a hit…
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UOB shares fall over 2% following lower Q2 net profit of S$1.34 billion reported
Shares of UOB fell by more than 2 per cent on Thursday (Aug 7) in early trade, on the back of the local bank’s second-quarter results. It…
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Gold inches higher as US dollar weakens on Fed rate cut hopes
Gold prices edged higher on Thursday (Aug 7), helped by a weaker US dollar on growing expectations of a Federal Reserve rate cut next…
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DBS shares reach S$50 mark, an all-time high, after unveiling higher Q2 profit
DBS shares set a record on Thursday (Aug 7) and hit the S$50 mark for the first time, after the lender posted marginally higher Q2…
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CSE Global Q2 new orders rise 3.8% to S$211.3 million
Systems integrator CSE Global has secured S$211.3 million worth of new orders for its second quarter ended June, a 3.8 per cent rise from…
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‘Strange Harvest’ Review: A Clever Mock Doc Convincingly Tracks a Fiendish (Fictional) Serial Killer
America’s obsession with serial killers has made posthumous industries of Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy and others, while…
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Private credit fuels a ‘buy now, pay later’ lending boom in Asia
Maria Hazel Regalado, a 48-year-old mother of four in the Philippines, needed a computer last year so she could work from home. Regalado,…
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Rayner asks China to explain redacted mega-embassy plans
Angela Rayner has given China two weeks to explain why parts of its plans for a new mega-embassy in London are redacted. The deputy prime…
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Inner London to lose out in funding rebalance, says IFS report
Councils in inner London are set to become the biggest losers under a government plan to update council funding rules, a think tank says.…