In San Juan this Saturday, the Pumas will run out onto the pitch carrying something heavier than their jerseys — the weight of an opening-week defeat that few had anticipated. Argentina’s surprise home loss to Scotland in Córdoba last weekend…
What exactly did Japan’s finance minister announce? On Friday, 10 July, Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama stated at a regular press conference that the Japanese government intends to pursue measures encouraging pension funds — most notably the Government Pension Investment Fund…
A 5,000-Rupiah Haircut in a City Where Everything Costs More Supriyanto has not raised his prices since 2008. Inside Pemuda Barbershop — a weather-beaten hut on one of Bogor’s busiest streets, its zinc roof warping, its barber chairs broken, its…
Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party is preparing proposals to strengthen enforcement of shareholder disclosure rules targeting activist investors, including a significant bolstering of the country’s securities watchdog, a senior LDP lawmaker disclosed to Reuters on Tuesday in Tokyo. A Market Transformed…
Two warehouse operators at Keppel Distripark learned a costly lesson in June: market share does not determine liability under Singapore’s competition law. The High Court’s June 30 judgment reinstating the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore’s (CCS) original ruling against…
The decision by Singapore’s 15th Parliament to take no further action against Workers’ Party MPs Sylvia Lim and Faisal Manap over their false testimony to the Committee of Privileges is, on its face, a procedural conclusion. In reality, it illuminates…
The Project at a Glance Sunset Development is planning a 255-unit single-family residential neighbourhood called Canopy within Bishop Ranch, the mixed-use campus in San Ramon, California. The project marks a significant step in the site’s long-term transformation from a predominantly…
The release and arrival in the United States of a senior pastor from one of China’s largest underground churches, following 266 days of imprisonment, offers a precise and sobering illustration of how Beijing continues to manage religious practice through coercive…
The release and arrival in the United States of a senior pastor from one of China’s largest underground churches, following 266 days of imprisonment, offers a precise and sobering illustration of how Beijing continues to manage religious practice through coercive…
Who decides what women ought to wear, whom they can love, or how many children they must have? Across political systems and historical periods, the answer has rarely been the women themselves. Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir Persepolis places that question…
