Culture
“The Lowdown” Is a Noir for Our Era
Some actors you can watch doing the same thing over and over again. Cary Grant built a career on smirking suavity; Cate Blanchett has made…
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Culture
The Art of the Impersonal Essay, by Zadie Smith
If it were up to me, for example, I would very happily switch that rickety, always ill-fitting term “humanism” with something broader,…
Culture
The Autocrat of English Usage
In 1940, St. Clair McKelway typed a memo to William Shawn, The New Yorker’s managing editor for fact. McKelway was writing a six-part…
Culture
Ian McEwan Casts the Climate Crisis as a Story of Adultery
At the start of “What We Can Know,” Ian McEwan’s eighteenth novel, the year is 2119 and the humanities are still in crisis. Thomas…
Culture
The Uses and Abuses of “Antisemitism”
How a term coined to describe a nineteenth-century politics of exclusion would become a diagnosis, a political cudgel, and a rallying cry.…
Culture
Reading the New Pynchon Novel in a Pynchonesque America
As for pace, “Shadow Ticket” reads like one of its subplots, about the Trans-Trianon 2000, a two-thousand-kilometre motorcycle circuit…
Business
Singapore stocks slip on Monday as US futures fall; STI down 0.1%
Decliners outnumber advancers 315 to 233 after 1.9 billion shares worth S$1.6 billion change hands Local stocks inched down on Monday (Sep…
Business
Singtel faces another Optus crisis after fatal outage linked to three deaths in Australia
Singtel faces a fresh crisis at its Australian division Optus after the government started an investigation into an emergency call outage…
Business
HSBC’s Roberts says the bank’s future in Asia, Middle East
The future of HSBC Holdings is in Asia and the Middle East because of the amount of wealth and the capital flows between the two regions,…
Business
China’s central bank revives liquidity tool before long holiday
CHINA’S central bank has dusted off a liquidity instrument it last used eight months ago, part of a move to flood the banking system with…
Business
Tariffs spark caution but no financing rush this time round: Citi’s Damien Tan
‘The key difference is that during the Covid-19 pandemic, there were a lot of demands for funding, bolstering of balance sheets, and…
News
Hong Kong airport to shut for 36 hours due to Typhoon Ragasa
HONG Kong International Airport will suspend all passenger flights for 36 hours from Tuesday evening, Qantas Airways said, as the Asian…
Business
Chery Automobile set to price Hong Kong IPO at higher end of range
Chery Automobile is set to price its Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) at the high end of a marketed range after strong demand for…
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China’s steel work plan vows to ban new capacity, promote demand
Beijing has been expected to lay out its plans for the world’s biggest steel industry since promising to cut output at its annual policy…
Business
Nissan revamps ProPilot to rival Tesla driver-assist technology
Nissan Motor is on a mission under new chief executive officer Ivan Espinosa to rebuild its business. Refreshing its lineup is a key part…
Business
Copper holds gain as production halt at Indonesia mine persists
The latest report signals there may be a prolonged suspension at the mine that could quickly tighten the market Copper held gains from the…
Business
China’s magnet exports to EU surge as bloc bears brunt of crunch
Europe’s electric-vehicle industry is also seeking supplies in other places such as Estonia China’s exports of rare-earth magnets to the…
Business
Fire sale of sought-after fund raises alarm over Asia private equity slump
Economic uncertainty from tariffs and trade wars heightened liquidity needs, just four years after private equity’s fundraising peak For…
News
Oil inches up as tension flares in Europe, Middle East
Oil prices inched up on Monday supported by geopolitical tension in Europe and the Middle East, although the prospect of more oil supply…
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Erika Kirk says she forgives husband's assassin
In a stunning moment, the widow of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk said at his funeral that she forgives her husband's assassin.…
Business
Apple’s iPhone 17 sales open to strong demand for Pro models
The company faces lofty expectations from Wall Street for holiday period sales, despite global economic concerns and the threat of future…
Business
The FCC Is a New Deal Relic
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Malaysia cuts RON95 petrol price to RM1.99 a litre ahead of Sabah state election, Budget 2026
Malaysians will soon pay less at the pump than before, after Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim cut the price of RON95 petrol to RM1.99 (S$0.61)…
Business
Stocks to watch: Singtel, SGX, Del Monte Pacific, Tat Seng Packaging
The following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their securities on Monday (Sep 22): Singtel: The…