The alarm had already sounded. On the morning of May 23, 2024, sensors installed at Choa Chu Kang Waterworks were registering hydrogen sulphide concentrations beyond safe thresholds — and still, workers descended into the enclosed passage beneath a water treatment…
There is a number quietly buried in Netflix’s second-quarter shareholder letter that deserves more than a passing glance. Generative AI workflows, the company disclosed, have now been used in roughly 300 titles in 2026 alone — with the heaviest concentration…
A Historic Reversal in Global Opinion For roughly two decades, Pew Research Center’s tracking of global attitudes consistently placed the United States ahead of China in international favourability. That long-standing pattern has now broken. In its latest survey, conducted between…
South Korea’s Financial Services Commission has announced a temporary ban on new listings of single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds, alongside a sharp increase in the minimum deposit required for retail investors to trade such products — a regulatory reversal that follows…
Picture the scene: a Singapore office tower, mid-afternoon, the equatorial sun pressing down at 33°C outside, and inside, a colleague reaching under her desk for a cardigan. The air-conditioning has been cranked to somewhere near arctic. It is a small,…
A Privacy Feature With a Pre-emptive Shield Meta-owned WhatsApp is preparing to roll out a username feature that will allow users to connect with one another without disclosing their phone numbers — a meaningful privacy upgrade for a platform that…
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…
