Posts by Riah Marton
Japan’s startup index outperforms Topix by most since April
Japan’s startup equity gauge is outperforming the broader market by the most in over four months, as investors shift focus into domestic small and mid-cap stocks that benefit from yen strength. The Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market 250 Index, formerly known as the Mothers Index, rose 3.4 per cent over the past month, compared with…
Read MoreEvery Pitch-Perfect Detail of Brenda Song and Macaulay Culkin’s Love Story – E! Online
Upon their return to Los Angeles, the first sighting on record of Song and Culkin occurred in July 2017 during the dinner rush at Craig’s in West Hollywood, a celeb-packed haunt where you don’t go if you’re trying to keep a relationship quiet. They were spotted holding hands on what an eyewitness described as an “affectionate” double date…
Read MoreHow Katy Perry’s Daughter Daisy Has Her Feeling Like She’s Living a Teenage Dream – E! Online
Instead she slowly climbed her way into the light, focusing less on commercial success and fan reception and more on the type of stuff that fills her soul. “I’ve come to learn, after 10 years of success in the spotlight, that being happy is something you have to work for every single day,” Perry told Glamour in 2018. “Even…
Read MoreChina robots conference spotlights the changing face of humanoids
AS CHINA seeks to race ahead in humanoid robot development, its supply chains showcased cheaper and innovative parts at the world robot conference in Beijing, but some executives warn the industry has yet to improve product reliability. Wisson Technology (Shenzhen), known for its flexible robotic manipulators, does not depend on motors and reducers – transmission…
Read MoreThailand approves Western Digital’s 23.5 billion baht investment project
THAILAND has approved Western Digital’s 23.5 billion baht (S$899 million) project to expand hard disk production in the country, Thailand’s Board of Investment (BOI) said on Monday (Aug 26), as cloud technology and data centre demand grows. The investment would boost the Thai economy by adding exports worth 200 billion baht per year and creating…
Read MoreApple defence bolstered by Google monopoly ruling in US case
APPLE could be the winner after Alphabet’s Google lost its fight with the US antitrust enforcers earlier this week, with a ruling that supports the iPhone maker’s defence in its own antitrust court battle with US prosecutors, legal experts said. A federal judge mostly sided with state and federal antitrust enforcers in the blockbuster case…
Read MoreNomura cuts Chinese stocks to fund Indonesia, Malaysia switch
INVESTORS should pare their Chinese equity holdings and put their money in Indonesia and Malaysia, according to analysts at Nomura Holdings. They upgraded Malaysian and Indonesian stocks to overweight from neutral, partly on their view that the two markets will benefit more from cuts to US interest rates, according to a note by strategists including…
Read MoreSingtel, Hitachi to collaborate on data centres in Japan
They expect to ‘define more power-efficient methodologies that could advance any enterprise’s sustainability goals’ THE regional data centre arm of Singtel’s Digital InfraCo unit, Nxera, is exploring opportunities with Hitachi to develop data centres across Japan and potentially the wider Asia-Pacific region. This comes as part of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between Singtel…
Read MoreNew Boeing CEO faces hard choices after Nasa snubs Starliner for SpaceX
AFTER a humiliating setback to its space ambitions, Boeing faces a dilemma that pits its national duty against strained cash reserves. The decision about the future of the struggling Starliner programme now rests with Boeing’s newly installed chief executive officer, Kelly Ortberg, after Nasa announced on Saturday (Aug 24) that it would not send astronauts…
Read MoreSingapore dollar trades around 10-year high on policy outlook
SINGAPORE’S dollar advanced to its strongest in almost a decade as traders weighed the difference between the local monetary authority’s relatively hawkish policy outlook compared with that of the Federal Reserve. The local dollar hit levels last seen in 2014 against the greenback late Friday (Aug 23), and fluctuated around 1.30 per US dollar in…
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