Business
Santosa, Kolonas families offer to privatise Japfa at S$0.62 per share
THE family members of Japfa’s founder are looking to take the agri-food company private by way of scheme of arrangement, for S$0.62 per…
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Politics
At the End of Week One, Every Dark Prediction Is Already Coming True
We are in an odd sort of waiting room at the moment. Trump and all his minions and enablers have told us many times what his…
Politics
MAGA Loses Its Mind Over JD Vance’s First Interview as V.P.
The MAGA base is in an uproar over JD Vance giving his first interview as vice president to Margaret Brennan of Face the Nationon CBS.…
News
Egregious ICE Raid Grabs U.S. Military Vet in Roundup
Donald Trump’s promised mass deportations have already begun, and in Newark, New Jersey, a U.S. military veteran was detained after…
Business
Meta to Increase Spending to $65 Billion This Year in A.I. Push
Mark Zuckerberg spent all of 2024 telling investors that artificial intelligence would be key to the future of his company, Meta. In 2025,…
Business
Great Eastern granted further extension to May 25 to explore options to return free float
GREAT Eastern now has until May 25 to explore options to comply with free float requirements under the Singapore Exchange’s (SGX) listing…
Politics
Republicans Are Already Looking for Ways to Hand Trump a Third Term
“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being…
Politics
Elon Musk is Already Driving White House Aides Nuts
Donald Trump’s staff is seriously pissed at Elon Musk after he called out the president’s newly announced artificial intelligence…
Politics
Elon Musk is Already Driving White House Aides Nuts
Donald Trump’s staff is seriously pissed at Elon Musk after he called out the president’s newly announced artificial intelligence…
News
IRS Free Tax Filing System Will Include 13 More States
Taxpayers with income of $84,000 or less still have the option of using the separate Free File program, a partnership between the I.R.S.…
Business
Debanking, and the Diss Heard Around Davos
Good morning from Davos, Switzerland, on the final day of the World Economic Forum. The hottest chatter over the past 24 hours has been…
Politics
Transcript: Judge’s Harsh Smackdown of Trump Shows Resistance Can Work
Bonta: Yeah. And if they are turning their unlawful threats, or their threats in the memo, into unlawful action, then that unlawful action…
Business
Lian Beng’s Ong family offers to privatise SLB Development at S$0.23 per share
LIAN Beng Group’s board of directors – comprising the controlling Ong family – has proposed to acquire and privatise property developer…
Business
Wall Street enters darker age with most stock trading now hidden
HERE’S a surprising new fact about the world’s largest and most-liquid public equity market: Most of the activity on it is not public…
News
Egg Prices Are High. They Will Likely Go Higher.
On a trip to a Walmart in Ozark, Mo., in early January, Laura Modrell was surprised to see shoppers “standing around and gasping” in the…
Politics
The Price of Speaking Up in Trump’s America
On Tuesday morning at Washington’s National Cathedral, Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde did something remarkable: She looked directly…
Politics
The Sick Message That Trump Is Sending to MAGA America
Typical of Trump’s upside-down worldview, the order paints transgender people—who are more vulnerable to violence than almost anyone else…
Politics
How to Take Heart From What Really Worked in the First Resistance
Women and men in these grassroots groups met regularly, informed themselves about the local implications of Trump initiatives—above all…
Politics
Even the Respectable Argument for Trump’s Tariffs Is Dead Wrong
Furman was less skeptical. “My guess is he has some study,” he told me. “I would have guessed 5 percent, and I recently asked a few top…
Politics
Chinese EV makers file challenges to tariffs at EU court
CHINESE electric vehicle makers BYD, Geely and SAIC have challenged the EU’s import tariffs at the Court of Justice of the European Union…
Politics
BMW joins Chinese EV makers in filing EU court challenge to tariffs
BMW has joined Chinese producers in filing a challenge at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) against EU tariffs on…
News
Chevron to Increase Output at Huge Oil Field in Kazakhstan
Chevron said Friday that it had completed an expansion at its Tengiz oil field in Kazakhstan intended to increase production this year to…
Business
Fu Yu board rejects substantial shareholder’s directorship bid due to non-conformance with SGX’s ‘integrity requirements’
PRECISION plastic components manufacturer Fu Yu Corporation’s board of directors declined to appoint substantial shareholder Victor Lim as…
Business
Trump’s Inflation Fix Centers on Energy Emergency That Doesn’t Exist
President Trump has put unleashing American energy production at the center of his economic agenda, saying that ramping up fossil fuel…