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Shanghai benchmark hits 10-year high as easing deflation lifts sentiment
Mainland China and Hong Kong stocks advanced on Friday (Jan 9), with the Shanghai benchmark topping the psychologically important 4,100…
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SGX December securities turnover value up 29% on 2025 momentum
The trading value of securities on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) climbed 29 per cent year on year in December, driven by “sustained stock…
Fashion
Fear of the unknown preventing firms from embarking on sustainability journey: SMF
The manufacturing body has therefore rolled out programmes to help them overcome the obstacles Fear of the unknown is one factor stopping…
Business
BYD creates new Linghui sub-brand aimed at ride-hailing market
Among other new models disclosed in the filings, Luxeed registered its first multi-purpose van BYD has created a new sub-brand, called…
Fashion
China warns solar firms on monopoly risks amid consolidation bid
Measures such as raising industry standards and gradually phasing out subsidies are also likely to continue CHINA’S market regulator has…
Fashion
Asian stocks ease, dollar firms ahead of jobs report, ruling on tariffs
Asian stocks drifted lower and the dollar stood tall on Friday ahead of a crucial jobs report, while investors girded for a Supreme Court…
News
Nevada Gov. Lombardo leads ballot initiative to keep biological males out of girls' sports
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo is heading a petition drive to bar biological males from girls' scholastic sports, seeking to put the issue…
Business
UOBKH upgrades top pick DBS to ‘buy’ on 5.6% yield
It also upgrades the overall banking sector to ‘overweight’ and has a continued ‘buy’ call for OCBC A dividend yield of 5.6 per cent this…
Business
Stocks to watch: China Aviation Oil, Geo Energy
The following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their securities on Friday (Jan 9): China Aviation Oil (CAO): Its…
News
Venezuela helps vault Rubio to quarterback of Trump's foreign policy team
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is a football fan - he played in college, supports the Miami Dolphins, and his son is a running back for…
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Federal immigration officers shoot and wound 2 people in Portland, Oregon, authorities say
Federal immigration officers shot and wounded two people outside a hospital in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, a day after an officer shot…
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Federal immigration officer shoots 2 people in Portland, Oregon, authorities say
A federal immigration officer shot and wounded two people in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, a day after an ICE officer shot and killed a…
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Trump moves to address housing costs by ordering feds to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds
In a move he says will lower monthly mortgage costs and put more money in homeowners' pockets, President Trump has directed the federal…
Culture
Béla Tarr’s Unbroken Visions
A titanic artist’s death is a terrible shock. In the case of the Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, who has died after a long illness, at the…
News
Colorado AG accuses Trump of 'revenge campaign' for state refusal to free convicted elections clerk
Colorado's attorney general accused the Trump administration on Thursday of waging a "revenge campaign" by choking off funds and ending…
Fashion
New VR documentary puts you in the devastation of the L.A. fires — and might help you heal
A snapshot of fire-ravaged Altadena is laid out before me, hovering like a diorama. My eyes zero in on a red door, its frame one of the…
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Vance says Renee Good's fatal shooting by ICE officer in Minneapolis was 'tragedy of her own making'
The White House rejected Democrats' demands to pull immigration enforcement out of Minnesota in the wake of the ICE shooting this week,…
Business
London player Colt targets data centre migration to expand Singapore market share
It views global connectivity as its competitive advantage, and identifies opportunities in SGX data centre migration Data centre…
News
After delays, the missing Jan. 6 plaque will be displayed at the Capitol
The Senate has agreed to display a plaque honoring the police who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, rebuffing House…
Business
Blackstone eyes US$2.6 billion of debt to finance power merger
Electricity demand is soaring globally as the data centres needed for Big Tech’s artificial intelligence objectives put pressure on power…
News
House rebukes GOP leaders with passage of Obamacare subsidies extension
House Democrats on Thursday secured an unlikely win with the passage of a bill to re-up their COVID-era expansion of Obamacare subsidies…
News
Vice President Vance calls killing of Minneapolis woman by ICE officer 'a tragedy of her own making'
Vice President JD Vance on Thursday blamed a federal immigration officer's fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman on "a left-wing network,"…
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The shooting outside a Utah church grew out of a dispute between funeral goers, police say
A complicated crime scene and uncooperative witnesses hindered Salt Lake City police efforts to investigate a shooting outside funeral…
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White House ballroom planners propose second story over historic colonnade, new visitors center
Planners developing a massive ballroom on the East side of the White House want to expand the project to include other additions and…