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How Netflix is using ‘Too Hot to Handle’ games to build its reality TV audience
Reality show contestants are fiercely protective of how they look on screen. For Chloe Veitch, one of the breakout stars of Netflix’s risque dating series “Too Hot to Handle,”...
Fugitive “Bad Breath Rapist” Captured in California After 17 Years on the Run
Teun Kit Lee, 55, a Massachusetts fugitive who fled during his 2007 rape trial and was convicted in absentia, has been captured after living under a false identity for...
Drew & Napier engages litigation funder Omni Bridgeway for suit on Credit Suisse AT1 write-down 
Drew & Napier engages litigation funder Omni Bridgeway for suit on Credit Suisse AT1 write-down 
LAW firm Drew & Napier has engaged litigation financing company, Omni Bridgeway, to fund its claims against Switzerland related to the forced write-down of Additional Tier-1 (AT1) bonds in...
Australia’s ANZ exits Malaysian lender AMMB with US9 million stake sale
Australia’s ANZ exits Malaysian lender AMMB with US$149 million stake sale
ANZ Group, Australia’s fourth-largest bank, has exited its investment in Malaysian firm AMMB Holdings by selling its entire 5.2 per cent stake for up to US$149 million, according to...
With WFS under its belt, a supersized Sats aims for S billion in revenue by 2028
With WFS under its belt, a supersized Sats aims for S$8 billion in revenue by 2028
AIRPORT-services provider Sats is “in the right spot”, says its chief executive officer Kerry Mok. After acquiring Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) in 2023, it is ready to tap the...
What’s behind the anti-Biden ‘wildfire’ among TikTok influencers
WASHINGTON —  President Biden has been courting Kahlil Greene and other young TikTok influencers since taking office, inviting them to celebrations at the White House and policy briefings on Zoom,...
Singapore bourse stays afloat in Asia’s sea of red, STI closes flat
Singapore bourse stays afloat in Asia’s sea of red, STI closes flat
THE Straits Times Index (STI) ended Thursday (May 30) at 3,323.38, roughly unchanged from the previous day. Advancers were slightly behind decliners, at 271 to 288, and S$1.14 billion...
Singapore bourse stays afloat in Asia’s sea of red, STI closes flat
Singapore bourse stays afloat in Asia’s sea of red, closes flat
THE Straits Times Index (STI) ended Thursday (May 30) at 3,323.38, roughly unchanged from the previous day. Advancers were slightly behind decliners, at 271 to 288, and S$1.14 billion...
China Vanke in advanced talks with banks for US.9 billion loan
China Vanke in advanced talks with banks for US$6.9 billion loan
China Vanke, the Chinese state-backed developer that’s become the latest flashpoint in the nation’s property crisis, is in advanced talks with major banks for a loan of about US$6.9...
SE-Asia’s US0 billion gas expansion plans could slow energy transition, GEM says
SE-Asia’s US$220 billion gas expansion plans could slow energy transition, GEM says
South-east Asian countries are planning to invest as much as US$220 billion on a rapid natural gas expansion programme that could slow the region’s clean energy transition, research by...