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Tan Chong reverses from loss to HK$11.7 million profit in H1
Automotive group Tan Chong International posted a net profit of HK$11.7 million (S$1.9 million) for the first half ended Jun 30, reversing…
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Conservative MSP Graham Simpson defects to Reform
Craig Williams BBC Scotland News Simpson says he has joined Reform to help get the SNP out of office Conservative MSP Graham Simpson has…
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Transcript: GOP Senator Shocked at How Badly Trump Screwing His Voters
Thorne: Stunned that someone like Senator Murkowski is surprised by this, but also it makes sense. This is actually what we’re seeing from…
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Profit dives at China’s top food delivery firm Meituan amid intense competition
China’s leading food delivery group Meituan, reported on Wednesday (Aug 27) a fall of 89 per cent in second-quarter adjusted net profit as…
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Alexander Payne Dodges Gaza Conversation at Venice Jury Press Conference: ‘I’m Unprepared for That Question’
The ongoing war in Gaza was the main topic of conversation at this year’s Venice Film Festival jury press conference, although director…
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Kohl’s Sees Turnaround Efforts Starting to Kick In, But Sales Still Declining
Turnaround efforts at Kohl’s, after months and months of work, appear to be starting to pay off. On Wednesday, Kohl’s reported…
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Microsoft, Rolls-Royce Power Systems push treated vegetable oils to green Singapore’s data centres
Microsoft and Rolls-Royce Power Systems are pushing for the adoption of hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) as a sustainable backup fuel for…
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The New Medicine Tariffs Are a Prescription for Disaster
They’ll make Americans sicker, poorer, and less innovative. Source link
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Social Security Is No Longer the Third Rail of American Politics
It’s proximate cause for a shotgun wedding. Source link
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The Cure for Racial Discrimination in Medical Education
If colleges and universities want the American taxpayer’s support, they should be forced to focus on merit alone. Source link
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I Always Thought This Shoe Trend Looked “Cheap”—Amal Clooney Just Changed My Mind
I’ll admit it: I’ve always been wary of white heels. One wrong step onto grass or a light scrape against a wall and suddenly they look…
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Singapore shares end flat amid Fed pressure and ahead of Nvidia earnings release
Local stocks ended Wednesday (Aug 27) unchanged while regional markets closed mixed, as investors weighed political pressure on the US…
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Verónica Echegui, ‘Fortitude,’ ‘Love You to Death’ Star, Dies at 42
Spain’s Verónica Echegui, an actor of enormous vitality and contagious humor, died Aug. 24, at Madrid’s 12 de Octubre hospital where she…
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How large language models can reconstruct forbidden knowledge
In the late 1970s, a Princeton undergraduate named John Aristotle Phillips made headlines by designing an atomic bomb using only publicly…
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Yeremy Pino: Crystal Palace agree £26m deal in principle for Villarreal winger
Crystal Palace have agreed a deal in principle worth up to £26m with Villarreal for Spain winger Yeremy Pino. The 22-year-old is believed…
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This modern AC alternative is inspired by an ancient cooling technique
When the heat index in Delhi, India, reached 125 degrees Fahrenheit this summer, so many people cranked up their air-conditioning that it…
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How to Survive Your Song Going Viral on TikTok
If you’ve heard the 2019 hit song “Tek It,” by the New York City-based band Cafuné, there’s a good chance it’s not the version that the…
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Trump Is Calling the Supreme Court’s Bluff on the Fed
Cook, for her part, said that she would not step down. “President Trump purported to fire me ‘for cause’ when no cause exists under the…
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The Democrats’ Self-Destructive Fear of the Swing Voter
Democratic leaders who want a winning message against Donald Trump’s military occupation of Washington, D.C., should accuse the president…
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The Trump Recession Is Coming
You don’t hear much about a recession anymore. That’s not because Trump was right when he was speaking in North Carolina last August.…
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Netflix’s Long Story Short Reinvents the Family Sitcom
There’s no voiceover narration in Long Story Short, the new animated coming-of-age comedy from BoJack Horsemancreator Raphael…
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Bananas, champagne, and robots: Why automation still needs humans
Watching robots awkwardly flop around, cause robot body pile-ups on the soccer field, and accidentally lose their heads while taking part…