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California City Ends ICE Contract Amid L.A. Protests
Glendale, California, which is located just minutes from Los Angeles where anti-ICE protests erupted this weekend, has decided to end a…
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US: Wall Street opens higher as US-China trade talks begin
Street’s main indexes opened higher on Monday (Jun 9) as investors watched a fresh round of negotiations between the United States and…
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Shareholders to vote on Great Eastern delisting on Jul 8
Independent directors of Great Eastern Holdings (GEH) are recommending for shareholders to accept OCBC’s conditional exit offer that will…
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Newsom Calls Trump “Stone-Cold Liar” as California Threatens to Sue
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongfully deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador, is back in the United States to face…
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Asia healthcare assets risk overvaluation as private investors scoop them up
As private equity (PE) investors pour money into Asian healthcare, some observers are concerned thatthis sector could soon overheat. Some…
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Trump Goes on Furious Late-Night Tantrum on L.A. Protests
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongfully deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador, is back in the United States to face…
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Kim Heng inks deal with Singapore Energy Interconnections on submarine power projects
This comes after Singapore Energy Interconnections’ other project to enable low-carbon electricity imports from Indonesia to Singapore…
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Global convergence of sustainability disclosure standards – what boards need to know
SUSTAINABILITY disclosures have finally begun to align globally after a long, winding journey spanning three decades. What originated in…
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Doing away with SGX watch list may help the firms focus more on the long term: market watchers
The proposed removal of Singapore Exchange’s (SGX) financial watch list could benefit companies by allowing them to focus on business…
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EV maker VinFast’s Q1 loss widens on higher spending as deliveries rise
Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast on Monday (Jun 9) reported its sixth consecutive quarterly net loss as it continues to ramp up…
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Transcript: As Trump Tariff Fiasco Worsens, Even Fox News Is Noticing
Sargent: No, no, I think the story is slow boat to recession, right? Isn’t that the story? Let me ask you this, though: Isn’t the big…
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Singapore stocks close Monday higher ahead of US-China talks; STI up 0.1%
Local stocks rose on Monday (Jun 9), in line with gains in Asian markets on hopes that a fresh round of US-China trade talks will ease…
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I’ve Been RIF’d at USAID, but I Still Swear an Oath—to Democracy
(I technically still work at USAID, but with the Trump administration’s elimination of the agency, we’re counting down the days we have…
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Would Trump and Hegseth Have Protesters Be Shot? See What They’ve Said
Once we’re down the Insurrection Act road, there’s no telling where this leads. It’s not an accident, by the way, that JD Vance called…
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American Politics Only Pretends to Work
But here’s the rub: The bill that Moore spiked was never actually about discovering new facts to lay alongside the vast mountain of…
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Qualcomm strengthens AI portfolio with US$2.4 billion Alphawave deal
US chipmaker Qualcomm agreed to acquire Alphawave for about US$2.4 billion on Monday (Jun 9), as it expands into the booming AI data…
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DBS tops US$100 billion market value in Singapore Exchange first
DBS Group Holdings became the first listed company in Singapore to top US$100 billion in market value, helped by a softer US currency that…
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Fox News Quietly Admits to Major Trump Failure amid Fresh DOGE Fiasco
Fox News hosts have gotten very aggressive in pinning down Trump officials over the failures of Trump’s trade agenda. Stuart Varney…
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Banks want staff back at the office. There aren’t enough desks
Five years after the Covid pandemic fuelled an unprecedented boom in remote work, bank executives have become ever more vocal in their…
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Shein and Reliance reportedly aim to sell India-made clothes abroad within a year
[MUMBAI/LONDON] Fashion retailer Shein and partner Reliance Retail plan to rapidly expand their Indian supplier base and start overseas…
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Hong Kong to maintain US dollar peg despite geopolitical tensions
Hong Kong will maintain its currency peg to the US dollar, the financial hub’s leader said in an interview published on Monday (Jun 9),…
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Bank of England risks repeat of Brexit pessimism as growth signals diverge
Bank of England (BOE) rate-setters risk underestimating the strength of the UK economy by placing too much faith in downbeat business…
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Atome to get US$75 million from Lending Ark as credit demand grows
As traditional credit markets in the US and Europe falter, private credit investors are turning their attention to emerging markets, drawn…
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Nomura to shut branch in China as it scales back wealth business
The closure comes four years after Nomura announced the opening of the office in late 2021, when it was pushing to expand in areas that…