Fashion
Thomson Medical announces 10.5 ha Johor Bay development
Healthcare provider Thomson Medical Group on Monday (Aug 25) announced a Johor Bay “mega project” in Malaysia, with a projected gross…
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Slashing the Intelligence Office Workforce Is Just a Start
Creating the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was a mistake. Short of its being erased, it needs to be streamlined and…
News
Japanese Internment: The Other 80th Anniversary to Remember
The moral and constitutional failure was not Roosevelt’s alone. Source link
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Should We Have Allied with Hitler?
‘Just asking questions’ makes its dumbest query yet. Source link
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What Jamieson Greer Gets Wrong About Trump’s New Trade System
The U.S. trade representative’s New York Times article defending Trump’s trade policy makes several grievous errors. Source link
Culture
Cindy Sherman’s and Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley
For a hundred years of New Yorker history (except once, in 2000, for our seventy-fifth anniversary), our covers have featured drawings,…
Fashion
Fashion models reckon with AI models and digital clones after controversial ad appears in Vogue
Fashion model Hannah James faced a dilemma as she weighed whether to digitally clone herself. On one hand, the 25-year-old worries digital…
Culture
What The New Yorker Was Watching in 1925
Film criticism at The New Yorker started with a bang: the first movie reviewed in the first issue, dated February 21, 1925, was the German…
Culture
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Latest Epiphanies
“Elizabeth Gilbert has a new memoir out.” The mere sentence radiates gentle inspiration—watercolors, billowy pants with elephants printed…
Celebrity
The Celebrity Picture Book Boom
There are no guilty pleasures in childhood. It is only as an adult that I feel a certain sheepishness when recalling one of my favorite…
Culture
How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge
When I was growing up, a critic was a jerk, a crank, a spoilsport. I figured that was the whole idea. My favorite characters on “The…
Business
Shanghai stock benchmark hits new decade high, Hong Kong nears 4-year peak
China and Hong Kong stocks jumped on Monday (Aug 25), led by the rare earth and property sectors, extending the recent bull run as…
Business
Asia’s US$306 billion of global bond sales are about to go higher
More Asian borrowers are considering bond offerings, extending a stretch of sales that has already jumped to the most since 2021 at US$306…
News
Indonesia scraps coal pricing rules after pushback from buyers
Indonesia scrapped rules forcing miners to sell coal and minerals at government-determined levels after buyers pushed back against a…
Business
Singtel’s Optus appoints non-executive director John Arthur as new chair
Singtel’s Australian subsidiary Optus has appointed John Arthur, a non-executive director, as its new board chairman with effect from…
Business
Barclays, BNP pivot to September Fed rate cut on Powell’s labour warning
Barclays and BNP Paribas expect the US Federal Reserve to make a 25-basis-point interest rate cut in September, according to notes dated…
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Oil prices climb after Ukraine attacks hit Russian energy sites
[BEIJING/SINGAPORE] Oil prices edged higher on Monday (Aug 25) after Ukraine stepped up attacks on Russia, fanning concerns Russian oil…
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Indonesia urges EU to remove countervailing duty on biodiesel after WTO ruling
Indonesia’s trade ministry on Monday (Aug 25) urged the European Union to immediately remove countervailing duties on biodiesel imports,…
Business
BlackRock pauses fundraising for latest Asia private credit fund
BlackRock paused fundraising earlier this year for its latest Asian private credit strategy amid its merger with HPS Investment Partners,…
Business
Up to 20% hike in KrisFlyer redemption rates on SIA from Nov 1; move comes amid bid to boost Scoot redemptions
Singapore Airlines (SIA) on Monday (Aug 25) announced a hike in its KrisFlyer redemption and upgrade rates across most route and cabin…
Business
Mizuho, MUFG join race by Japan’s banks for money manager deals overseas
[LONDON/TOKYO] Japanese banks Mizuho and MUFG are targeting buying or partnering with overseas money managers, they told Reuters, joining…
Business
Bubble risks grow as China’s stock bull run defies economy angst
China’s economy is buckling under the weight of tariffs and a deep-rooted property crisis, yet stocks are extending their bull run – a…
Business
BYD seeks to shift mass market image with souped-up race track
The name BYD is mainly associated with mass market electric vehicles. A manufacturing behemoth that churns out more electric cars than…