Culture
In “Dying for Sex,” Cancer and Kink Are Just the Beginning
The scariest unknown for women with cancer, after the disease itself, can be their husbands—a staggering number of whom abandon their…
Swedan Margen
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Business
DBS’, Bank of China’s printing vendor hit by ransomware attack; more than 11,000 customers affected
About 8,200 customers of DBS Bank – as well as 3,000 from the Bank of China’s Singapore branch – have had their customer information…
Business
Tesla shares plunge below Lutnick’s ‘never this cheap’ level
Tesla’s stock extended losses on Monday (Apr 7), dropping below a price at which Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick predicted they’d never…
Business
US: Wall St opens sharply lower, S&P 500 nears bear market territory
Wall Street’s main indexes opened sharply lower on Monday (Apr 7), with the S&P 500 on track to confirm bear market territory, as…
Business
Exxon CEO Woods compensation rose 19% in 2024
Woods’ pay package is about 231 times the average compensation of US$190,266 received by the oil major’s workers ExxonMobil CEO Darren…
Business
Thakral clarifies IPO rumours on associate GemLife; says ‘no certainty’ that any transaction will proceed
Thakral Corp clarified rumours that its associate GemLife, a resort-living developer in Australia, is gearing up for an initial public…
Business
Singapore shares close lower on Monday; STI tumbles 7.5%
Across the broader market, decliners outnumber advancers 612 to 137, with 2.7 billion shares worth S$4.2 billion changing hands All 30…
Culture
Environmentalists Are Rethinking Nuclear. Should They?
Fourteen years after the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power is being rebranded as a climate savior, and fission is in fashion. Source link
Culture
It’s a Typical Small-Town Novel. Except for the Nazis
We know this kind of novel. Reliable as the seasons, its opening pages disclose a familiar reality. A hovering, Godlike narrator looks…
News
James C. Scott and the Art of Resistance
“In Praise of Floods” (Yale), a study of rivers by the late political scientist James C. Scott, arrives after a year of catastrophic…
Culture
Richard McGuire’s “Zooming In”
For the cover of the April 14, 2025, Innovation & Tech Issue, the artist Richard McGuire offers an image that calls back to the halcyon…
Culture
The Evolution of a Folk-Punk Hero
Patrick Schneeweis was never the voice of a generation, but perhaps he was the voice of a tendency. To a small but fervent and far-flung…
Business
Credit gauges in Asia show most concern since early pandemic
Credit-default swaps in Asia blew out the most since the worsening of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, as a rout in risk assets deepened…
Business
China sovereign fund Huijin buying domestic stocks as market slumps
China’s sovereign fund Central Huijin Investment said on Monday (Apr 7) it is increasing holdings in China stocks and will defend market…
Fashion
China LPG buyers’ rush to replace US flows sends prices soaring
Diversions or outright purchases of shipments from other origins will come at a hefty price Chinese liquefied petroleum gas buyers have…
Business
Bank Indonesia intervenes in offshore rupiah ahead of reopening
It will aggressively intervene in the onshore markets too when they reopen on Tuesday Bank Indonesia intervened in the offshore rupiah…
Business
Japan's Nikkei sinks to 1½-year low as bank shares tumble
Japan’s Nikkei share average slumped on Monday (Apr 7) to the lowest level in 1½ years, with the index of Japanese bank stocks diving more…
Business
Singapore banks lose over S$37 billion in market value as tariff sell-off continues
Shares of Singapore’s three local banks continued to slide on Monday (Apr 7), weighed down by a broader market sell-off triggered by…
Business
Trump’s tariff ‘medicine’ injects turmoil into global markets
US President Donald Trump warned foreign governments they would have to pay “a lot of money” to lift sweeping tariffs, characterising the…
Business
Gold plunges to 3-1/2-week low as market sell-off hits bullion
GOLD prices continued to face turmoil on Monday, and hit their lowest levels in more than three weeks, as a wider market sell-off…
Business
Gold plunges to lowest in over 3 weeks as market sell-off hits bullion
GOLD prices continued to face turmoil on Monday, and hit their lowest levels in more than three weeks, as a wider market sell-off…
Business
Sheng Siong CEO Lim Hock Chee’s compensation for FY2024 up 20.6% at S$7.06 million
Supermarket operator Sheng Siong’s chief executive officer Lim Hock Chee received S$7.06 million in total compensation for FY2024, an…
Business
The Hour Glass to acquire newly incorporated SPV for A$90 million
This is in line with the group’s strategy to continue expanding its presence in the country Luxury watch retailer The Hour Glass announced…