Business
GIC, SoftBank are said to weigh selling stake in fintech VNLife
The Vietnamese fintech firm has a presence in Vietnam, Singapore, Myanmar and Cambodia GIC and SoftBank Vision Fund are considering…
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Business
Hidden inflation drives Japan consumers to price-tracking sites
Shoppers in the island nation are facing higher living costs for the first time since the burst of an asset bubble in the early 90s…
Politics
White House Melts Down Over Proof of Trump’s Gross Letter to Epstein
In reality, they “are seizing people using firearms, physical violence, and warehouse detentions,” and whisking away American citizens as…
Politics
That Signature in Epstein Birthday Letter Sure Looks Like Trump’s
In reality, they “are seizing people using firearms, physical violence, and warehouse detentions,” and whisking away American citizens as…
Politics
Trump’s DHS Gives B.S. Rationale for Launching Chicago Crackdown
In reality, they “are seizing people using firearms, physical violence, and warehouse detentions,” and whisking away American citizens as…
Politics
Here’s Trump’s Birthday Letter to Epstein—With His Signature on It
In reality, they “are seizing people using firearms, physical violence, and warehouse detentions,” and whisking away American citizens as…
Politics
Americans Seem to Be Falling Out of Love With Capitalism
In reality, they “are seizing people using firearms, physical violence, and warehouse detentions,” and whisking away American citizens as…
Politics
Man Accused of Trying to Kill Trump Starts Jury Selection With a Twist
In reality, they “are seizing people using firearms, physical violence, and warehouse detentions,” and whisking away American citizens as…
Politics
Poll: Americans Are Buying Way Less Thanks to Trump’s Tariffs
In reality, they “are seizing people using firearms, physical violence, and warehouse detentions,” and whisking away American citizens as…
Politics
Trump Loses to E. Jean Carroll Again as His Debt Piles Up
An Amtrak spokesperson told the Times that the signs currently appear at sites in Connecticut, Maryland, Boston, and Philadelphia, as well…
Politics
Trump Threatens All Foreign Companies After Massive Hyundai ICE Raid
Joining them, former Representative Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts, the health secretary’s nephew, took to X Friday, calling his uncle…
News
VW unveils affordable EVs to take on Chinese rivals
Volkswagen has made considerable cost savings on the cars by sharing technology across the different models Europe’s top car manufacturer…
Politics
What Mysterious Blue Pill Did Trump Take at the U.S. Open?
Joining them, former Representative Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts, the health secretary’s nephew, took to X Friday, calling his uncle…
Business
Thailand vows to curb baht swings as currency hits 4-year high
Thailand’s central bank vowed to take steps to ease baht volatility and limit the influence of gold prices after the local currency…
Politics
Transcript: Trump Suddenly Facing Worsening Losses on Many Key Fronts
Sargent: And saying it’s all justified by emergency, but we’ll come back to that. We had something similar on these two other cases. On…
Politics
Trump Is a Weak and Failing President, and It’s Time to Say So
By the way, many other polls support those findings. Pew, Fox, Gallup, and Quinnipiac have all found approval of Trump’s tariffs and/or…
Business
Cosco Shipping Holdings and Orient Overseas (International) could be hit by over US$2.1 billion in US port fees: HSBC
Chinese lines Cosco Shipping Holdings and Orient Overseas (International) could be hit by US port fees amounting to more than US$2.1…
Business
mm2 Asia Malaysia unit gets RM1.3 million payment demand from Antenna Entertainments
Media company mm2 Asia on Friday (Sep 5) announced that its subsidiary in Malaysia, MM2 Screen Management, received a payment demand of…
Business
Mercedes keeps ‘value over volume’ approach in tough Chinese market
The German luxury automaker and its European peers are currently awaiting a lowering of US auto import tariffs to 15% from 27.5% German…
Politics
Trump Has Ignited a Civil War Between the Federal Courts
The rebuke still prompted Judge William Young, who presided over the NIH case, to make a public apology to the justices “if they think…
Business
Nasdaq 100 gains as weak labour data fuels rate-cut bets
THE Nasdaq 100 rose on Thursday (Sep 4), closing 218.17 points, or 0.93 per cent higher, at 23,633.01, as investors digested…
Business
From vision to action: Global Asia Insurance Partnership’s new CEO targets greater coverage in Asia
As the Global Asia Insurance Partnership’s (GAIP) new chief executive officer, Cheng Min Hung is on a mission to tackle one of the…
Business
Bank of America sees two US Fed rate cuts this year vs none before
Economists at Bank of America forecast two US Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts this year, in September and December, based on weak…
News
Disney races to keep promises made in launch of ESPN online
Three weeks after ESPN launched an online version of its pay-TV network, parent Walt Disney is racing to cut deals with cable providers so…