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First Sponsor reports subdued market sentiments affecting China property development in Q1 2025
It remains cautiously optimistic that government support this year will contribute to gradual market recovery in country First Sponsor…
Swedan Margen
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Business
Investing in influencers – Azure Capital partners Gushcloud in fund to support creators, with up to 12.5% returns
The Azure-Gushcloud Entertainment Finance Fund, launched in February 2025, has successfully reached its initial target of raising S$10…
Business
CapitaLand Ascendas Reit reports positive rental reversions despite dip in occupancy in Q1
CapitaLand Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust (Clar) reported a growth in portfolio rental reversions of 11 per cent in the first…
Business
Sats’ WFS opens US$270 million cargo terminal at JFK Airport
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has partnered the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and global investment manager Realterm to open…
News
Yes, We Need Deportations Without Due Process
Only self-deportations will move the needle. Source link
Politics
The First Amendment Isn’t Divided Against Itself
The Supreme Court should recognize the harmony of religious non-establishment and free exercise by allowing Oklahoma’s Catholic charter…
News
Does Pope Francis Have You Weeping?
His underappreciated plea for prayer and charity — and real love. Source link
Politics
Harvard Does the Right Thing — Inadvertently
If the Trump administration’s big stick provokes a complacent Harvard into seeking more independence, that will be a good thing. Source link
Politics
A Circular Firing Squad at the Pentagon
The sooner the focus can get back to the reforms Pete Hegseth is pushing, the better. Source link
Politics
Up north and down here, &c.
On the Canadian election today and U.S. elections past; a Georgian violinist; Central Park in bloom; and more. Source link
News
Mark Carney Falls Upward Again
The Canadian Liberal leader’s fortunes turned around when all signs had previously pointed to defeat. But will they turn back? Source link
News
Chemical Abortion Far More Dangerous to Women Than FDA Admits, Research Shows
The rate of serious adverse events after chemical abortion is at least 22 times as high as the FDA says, according to new data. Source link
News
Bay Area tech workers thought their jobs were safe. Then the 'golden handcuffs' came off
Evan Richardson grew up in Silicon Valley, surrounded by big tech companies that transformed how people live, socialize and work. As a…
News
When Jews Sought the Promised Land in Texas
Ezekiel was an exile. Born in the kingdom of Judah, he survived the siege of Jerusalem, in 597 B.C.E., but afterward was banished with his…
Politics
Barry Blitt’s “The First Hundred Days”
President Donald J. Trump began his second term with a hundred-day blitz, as a way to both get revenge on his perceived foes and take the…
News
The Rise of Megan Moroney, Emo Cowgirl
“I don’t write a whole lot of love songs,” Megan Moroney said last month, onstage at Radio City Music Hall. Fortunately, that’s not…
News
Jeremy Jordan Mines “Floyd Collins” for Its Sonic Gems
“The future of writing is the universe within,” the composer and lyricist Adam Guettel told an interviewer, in 2001. It had been five…
Business
The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain
In 1857, Sam stumbled into the job that would shape his identity. Aboard a southbound steamboat—part of some half-baked scheme involving…
Business
Singapore Savings Bond demand falls short by over S$200 million; 10-year return down at 2.69%
The latest tranche offers a first-year interest rate of 2.49%, declining from 2.73% in April’s issuance The latest Singapore Savings Bond…
Business
Latest NZ$2.80-per-share offer by CDL Kiwi unit still ‘too low and inadequate’: M&C New Zealand
The independent directors of Millennium and Copthorne Hotels New Zealand (MCK) do not recommend shareholders of MCK to accept the increase…
Business
Aster Chemicals to bid for Exxon Mobil's Singapore fuel stations, sources say
Aster Chemicals and Energy, the new operator of the Bukom refining complex, is planning to bid for ExxonMobil’s petrol stations in…
Business
Mortgagee listings climb in Q1 as interest rate strains hit market: Knight Frank
Mortgagee listings in Singapore property auctions rose in the first quarter of 2025 as distressed sales due to the last two years of high…
Business
Toyota Industries shares set to surge on potential buyout by Toyota Motor
Shares of Toyota Industries were set for their biggest daily jump on record on Monday (Apr 28) after Japanese automaker Toyota said it was…
Business
iFast plunges 12% after cutting its Hong Kong profit guidance
This is after the company lowered its 2025 Hong Kong profit before tax target to HK$380 million from HK$500 million iFast shares plunged…