Posts by Kim Browne
Catalist-aspirant Toku to sell 65 million shares at S$0.25 apiece for its initial public offer
The company will raise net proceeds of S$13.7 million; post-listing, it will execute its expansion plans [SINGAPORE] A listing on the Catalist board of the Singapore Exchange (SGX) will raise the profile of Toku’s customer experience platform when it pitches to prospective large enterprise customers. “For any procurement team, it’s easier to explain after the…
Read MoreScarce landed housing land will entice developers hungry to serve aspiring landed home buyers.
Group’s undervalued share price is unwarranted given its rare landed housing landbank [SINGAPORE] Many affluent Singaporeans aspire to live in private landed homes, the purchase of which is generally restricted to Singapore citizens. Between Q4 2019 and Q4 2025, partly driven by the need for more space in the wake of the Covid pandemic, private…
Read MoreTrump’s Favorite Attorney Freaks Out Over Very Reasonable Question
Top Justice Department officials Tuesday tore into a Trump-appointed federal judge who dared to ask why Lindsey Halligan is still calling herself a U.S. attorney. In an 11-page filing, Halligan—fully backed by Attorney General Pam Bondi and deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche—slammed U.S. District Judge David Novak of Richmond for ordering Halligan to explain on…
Read MoreThe Supreme Court Is Skeptical of Trans Athletes’ Rights
Hecox began to undergo medical gender-transition treatments as a first-year student, including medication to suppress her natural testosterone levels. “Lindsay’s medical treatment rendered her eligible to participate under NCAA rules at the time, but H.B. 500 barred Lindsay from trying out for women’s track or cross-country teams,” her lawyers told the court in their brief.…
Read MoreSupreme Court Seems Ready to Ban Trans Kids From Playing Sports
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared poised Tuesday to allow states to ban transgender athletes from playing on girls’ and women’s sports teams. The court heard oral arguments for two cases from Idaho and West Virginia in which lawyers for the trans teens argued that the state laws they’d challenged relied on broad generalization about…
Read MoreGreenland’s Prime Minister Delivers Short and Serious Warning to Trump
“Do the people of Minnesota really want to live in a community in which there are thousands of already convicted murderers, drug dealers and addicts, rapists, violent released and escaped prisoners, dangerous people from foreign mental institutions and insane asylums, and other deadly criminals too dangerous to even mention,” Trump wrote. He claimed that all…
Read MoreTrump Warns It’s About to Get a Whole Lot Worse in Minnesota
He then tried to shift blame for the hastily constructed tariff plan—which was built on bad math—onto the judiciary. He claimed that the nine-justice bench would be at fault for the fallout of the plan rather than his office, which forced it through in April against the advice of at least two dozen Nobel Prize–winning…
Read MoreGuinness-owner Diageo is said to weigh options for China assets including sale
The company is trimming global holdings as falling alcohol use hurts efforts to push pricier drinks [LONDON] Diageo is considering options for its Chinese assets, including potential divestments, people familiar with the matter said, as the maker of Guinness and Johnnie Walker seeks to streamline its portfolio. Diageo is working with Goldman Sachs Group and…
Read MoreUS Fed’s Williams says monetary policy well positioned amid a favorable outlook
[NEW YORK] Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said on Monday he expects a healthy economy in 2026 and indicated he sees no near-term reason to cut interest rates. The interest-rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee “has moved the modestly restrictive stance of monetary policy closer to neutral,” Williams said in a speech…
Read MoreThe Market Met Jerome Powell’s Warning With Deep Denial
Not all the markets were impervious to Powell’s harassment by DOJ goons. The dollar, which is down 8.3 percent over the past year—that is, more or less since Trump took office—dropped steeply Monday morning before rising a bit in the afternoon. The yield on 30-year Treasury bonds, which has been rising since October, spiked Monday…
Read MoreKaroline Leavitt Flips Out Over Anti-ICE Protests in Minneapolis
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt can’t understand why the country is up in arms over the ICE-induced violence taking place in Minneapolis. “It’s striking that all weekend you had agitators and violent citizens in the streets of Minneapolis protesting—protesting what, exactly?” Leavitt asked while addressing reporters outside the White House Monday. Nationwide protests took…
Read More“Stupod B*tch”: GoFundMe for Minnesota ICE Agent Is Chilling
Alpha News, the conservative blog that got first access to Jonathan Ross’s cell phone footage of him killing Renee Good, boosted a fundraiser for the ICE agent that describes the deceased as a “stupod bitch that got what she deserved.” It seems that in exchange for the website’s high-profile scoop—that got shared by the vice…
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