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Blackstone revamps Asia real estate unit as senior executive steps down
Blackstone is revamping the senior management at its Asia real estate unit as its long-serving head of acquisitions is set to leave,…
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Citi appoints banking veteran as Apac investment banking co-head
Kaustubh Kulkarni is making the move after spending nearly three decades at JPMorgan Citi has named Kaustubh Kulkarni as its new co-head…
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MetaOptics eyes S$6 million in gross proceeds from IPO, to trade on SGX Catalist on Sep 9
Home-grown semiconductor optics startup MetaOptics intends to raise some S$6 million in gross proceeds from its initial public offering…
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D2C Brands Must Master Meta and Google to Succeed
When new direct-to-consumer brands ask me about paid advertising strategies, I often see them searching for some secret channel or hidden…
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CDC Official Makes Shocking Confession About RFK Jr.’s Intel
On Thursday evening, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis—who recently resigned from a high-level role at the Centers for Disease Control—revealed a…
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Lisa Cook Forces the Supreme Court to Show Its True Colors on the Fed
Powell, Cook, and the other five Federal Reserve governors automatically serve on the Federal Open Market Committee, a separate body that…
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Spike Lee’s "Highest 2 Lowest" Is a Meta-Reckoning with His Success
Though Kurosawa’s classic features the great Toshiro Mifune in the equivalent of Washington’s role, it doesn’t rely on its lead actor’s…
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Trump Fires Top Transportation Official Overseeing Key Merger
President Trump has fired Surface Transportation Board member Robert Primus, a Democrat who he himself first appointed to the railroad…
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Confidence Trumps Wealth in Investment Decisions
Self-doubt can be paralyzing, especially when you’re surrounded by wealthy, successful people. For years, I struggled with this feeling…
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Trump’s pressure on Fed independence holds global risk, ECB’s Rehn says
President Donald Trump’s escalating attacks on the US Federal Reserve could have substantial and global knock-on effects on the financial…
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Most Gen Zs lack retirement plans and overlook insurance: Prudential Singapore
While it is never too late or too early to start planning for retirement, about seven in 10 Gen Zs in the Republic aged 16 to 28 said they…
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CDC Director Remarkably Ousted After Less Than a Month on the Job
The Defense Department lost the most workers—more than 55,000 federal civilian employees were given the chop, HuffPost reported. The…
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Minneapolis Mayor Slams Anti-Trans Hate After School Shooting
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey excoriated transphobes for tying a mass shooting to their hateful ideology. At a press conference Wednesday…
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RFK Jr Just Made It Very Hard to Get a Covid Vaccine
“Well, well … we need to talk about messaging,” Jordan responded, stopping Charlamagne in his tracks. “I actually went to the Capitol and…
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Keppel to start arbitration against Seatrium for S$68.4 million related to Brazil corruption probe
Seatrium says it is seeking legal advice and will defend the claim ‘vigorously’ Asset manager Keppel is starting arbitration proceedings…
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Escalating Trump-Fed tensions jolt markets; STI down 0.3%
The local bourse closed lower on Tuesday (Aug 26) amid a regional sell-off triggered by US President Donald Trump’s unprecedented…
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Trump’s Bruised Hand Seen Without Makeup—and It Looks Quite Bad
As questions swirl about recurrent bruising on the back of Donald Trump’s right hand, the 79-year-old president’s injury was clearly…
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Transcript: The Media Should Be Biased—Against Authoritarianism
Forde: My God we couldn’t in this country even get federal anti-lynching legislation passed. That was first passed not too many years ago.…
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The Media Should Be Biased—Against Authoritarianism
The news media has a powerful role in democracy, even if it often doesn’t acknowledge that, says Kathy Roberts Forde, a journalism…
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ICE Used So Much Tear Gas, a Public School Fled Its Campus
As Rolling Stone reported, in June, the fence of the school’s play area displayed a laminated message. Its reported content, which matches…
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Trump’s FBI Raid of John Bolton’s Home Looks Like a “Five Alarm Fire”
But Moss also notes that it’s not clear why the FBI didn’t arrange with Bolton’s lawyer to collect any documents in a far less dramatic…
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Transcript: Stephen Miller’s Crazed Fascist Rant to Media Is Revealing
Stephen Miller (audio voiceover): They’re the ones who have been advocating for the one percent. They’re criminals, they’re killers,…
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NY Mayor Eric Adams’s Corruption Scandal Just Keeps Going
Another slew of New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s allies will likely face charges, which are expected to include multiple counts of…
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Trump and Melania’s Scammy Meme Coins Have Lost Almost All Value
You may recall that the president has a meme coin, $TRUMP. Days before his second inauguration, the president—who told Fox News in his…