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Indonesia central bank chief sees room for another rate cut
Indonesia’s central bank governor said on Monday (Nov 3) there was still room for another interest rate cut, but the timing would depend…
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NetLink Trust posts 10.2% drop in H1 profit to S$43.5 million on higher depreciation
Fibre network provider NetLink NBN Trust on Monday (Nov 3) posted a 10.2 per cent drop in net profit to S$43.5 million for the half-year…
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Microsoft signs US$9.7 billion AI cloud deal with Australia’s IREN to secure Nvidia systems
Once fully implemented, the deal is expected to generate about US$1.94 billion a year for IREN Microsoft has signed an approximately…
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MAS to encourage livelier capital markets for alternative risk financing, strengthening Singapore’s insurance hub status
The central bank will extend its support to cover non-Apac risks and renewable energy products, while continuing to prioritise solutions…
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At Ninety, Arvo Pärt and Terry Riley Still Sound Vital
In the spring of 1976, a Latvian architecture student named Hardijs Lediņš organized a music festival at the Riga Polytechnic Institute.…
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The Surprising Endurance of Martha Stewart’s “Entertaining”
To most readers, this will seem like fantasy. To Stewart, it was a snapshot of real life. She grew up in a large, middle class Polish…
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Wee Hur selling Adelaide student accommodation property for S$14.2 million
The buyer is Grenfell Trust, an indirect 90.48 per cent owned sub-trust of Wee Hur PBSA Fund III A Wee Hur Holdings announced that its 80…
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Singapore stocks track regional market gains; STI up 0.4%
Local telco Singtel is the most actively traded counter on the STI by volume. It ends the day at S$4.26, 0.2% up Local shares ended Monday…
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Eni, Petronas merge Indonesia, Malaysia assets in joint venture
The new entity, NewCo, will manage 19 assets, 14 in Indonesia and five in Malaysia Italy’s Eni and Malaysia’s state energy company…
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Buffett’s Berkshire cash hits US$381.7 billion, earnings soar
Despite its growing cash hoard, the firm’s net investment income declined 13% to US$3.2 billion amid lower short-term interest rates…
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Inside the race to train AI robots how to act human in the real world
CHENNAI, India — Now that artificial intelligence has mastered almost everything we do online, it needs help learning how we physically…
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King wants Andrew to lose last military title, minister says
The Ministry of Defence is working to remove Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's last honorary military rank under the guidance of the King, the…
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LaZona Pictures Secures Spain on ‘Chopin, Chopin!’ From Playtime (EXCLUSIVE)
LaZona Pictures, the distribution label of Gonzalo Salazar-Simpson’s Madrid-based LaZona group, has acquired Spanish rights to lavish…
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Fu Yu terminates group CEO David Seow for ‘gross default and misconduct’
An interim committee has been set up to oversee all operational matters pending successor search Mainboard-listed Fu Yu Corp has…
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Nearly half of Cat A COEs go to EVs, which account for 43% of new sales so far in 2025
They also made up 45.6% of Category A certificate of entitlement (COE) registrations in 9M 2025 The adoption rate of electric vehicles…
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I blew the whistle on a massive tax fraud - and they sued me
Theo LeggettBusiness Correspondent "We'd be met at airports in 20-foot limousines, and taken to places like the Atlantis hotel in Dubai or…
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I've Worked at WWW for 10+ Years—Here's My Shopping List Fall
I know that was a mouthful of a headline, but I needed to be clear on what we're doing today. We are shopping for fall wardrobe additions…
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Emerging market stocks rise every month this year for the first time since 1993
The surge is driven by factors including strong gains in many AI-focused Asian tech stocks and a weaker US dollar THE emerging-market (EM)…
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Andrew fixed palace visit for firm with £1.4m deal with ex-wife
Billy Kenber,politics investigations correspondent and Phil Kemp,political reporter Andrew Mountbatten Windsor arranged a private tour of…
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Fundamentals driving recent small and mid-cap institutional flows
In H2 up to Oct 30, these stocks record S$472 million in net institutional inflows Singapore is home to more than 240 small and mid-cap…
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How to cope with loneliness in your first year of university
Robert Medhurst spent most of his freshers' week looking at social media, reading posts about other students' fun nights out. "I was just…
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China ends gold tax break in setback for key bullion market
China is scrapping a long-standing gold tax incentive in a potential setback for consumers in one of the world’s top bullion markets.…
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DOJ probes trading in herbal medicine firm that surged 46,000%
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is probing market volatility at a Hong-Kong based traditional Chinese medicine company after a stock…