Posts by Swedan Margen
Our Movie Episode 9: Will Lee Je Ha and Lee Da Eum Make Their Relationship Public?
Our Movie episode 9 will air on SBS TV on Friday (July 11) at 9:50 PM KST. It will focus on the various challenges faced by Boo Seung Won, Lee Je Ha, and Lee Da Eum. According to the production team, producer Boo Seung Won could take drastic action to handle the situation between director…
Read MoreWho is Tan Teck Long, the former DBS veteran who is OCBC’s incoming CEO?
[SINGAPORE] OCBC has announced that its chief executive Helen Wong, 64, will retire on Dec 31, 2025. Its head of global wholesale banking, Tan Teck Long, 55, will take over the role on Jan 1, 2026. He brings with him a deep knowledge of the China market, an important prong of the bank’s China-Asean…
Read MoreA Welcome Reversal on Weapons to Ukraine
But there is more to do. Source link
Read MoreThe Land Where the Vibe Doesn’t Shift
Ireland, unlike its Anglophone peers, is largely untouched by the conservative backlash to progressive overreach. Source link
Read MoreThe Week: A Tragedy in Texas
Plus: The One Big Beautiful Bill is now law. Source link
Read MoreSuperman Under the Gunn
The Hollywood resistance remakes the Man of Steel. Source link
Read MoreMAS, PBOC to deepen collaboration in green and transition finance
[SINGAPORE] The central banks of Singapore and China reaffirmed their commitment to push on with their cooperation in green and transition finance. At the third Singapore-China Green Finance Taskforce (GFTF) meeting, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and People’s Bank of China (PBOC) strengthened their partnership to advance taxonomy interoperability, MAS said on Friday (Jul…
Read MoreMAS, PBOC to deepen cooperation in green and transition finance
[SINGAPORE] The central banks of Singapore and China reaffirmed their commitment to push on with their cooperation in green and transition finance. At the third Singapore-China Green Finance Taskforce (GFTF) meeting, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and People’s Bank of China (PBOC) strengthened their partnership to advance taxonomy interoperability, MAS said on Friday (Jul…
Read MoreSingapore stocks notch 5-day rally ahead of GDP data
[SINGAPORE] The local bourse extended its winning streak to end the week on a high note as investment sentiments have been undisturbed by tariff news, ahead of the release of the advance GDP estimate for the second quarter of 2025 next Monday. The blue-chip Straits Times Index (STI) closed 0.3 per cent or 12.11 points…
Read MoreMisinformation is already a problem during natural disasters. AI chatbots aren’t helping
When deadly flash floods hit central Texas last week, people on social media site X turned to artificial intelligence chatbot Grok for answers about whom to blame. Grok confidently pointed to President Trump. “Yes. Trump’s 2025 cuts slashed NOAA/NWS funding by ~30% and staff by 17%, impairing forecast accuracy. Warnings underestimated rainfall, contributing to inadequate…
Read MoreWhat Was Paul Gauguin Looking For?
In June, 1891, Paul Gauguin arrived in Tahiti. He was forty-three. With him—according to Sue Prideaux, whose new biography of Gauguin, “Wild Thing,” is the first to appear in English in thirty years—he carried “a hundred meters of canvas, a large collection of paint tubes from Lefranc & Cie, a rifle to shoot the wild…
Read MoreConor McPherson’s Reliable Treasure
Conor McPherson’s small 1997 masterwork “The Weir” has been one of the most reliable treasures of the Irish Repertory Theatre. First directed by Ciarán O’Reilly in 2013, revived in 2015, and released as a digital performance in 2020, O’Reilly’s exquisite production returns again this summer (through Aug. 31). It’s shrewd counter-programming for these sweltering days:…
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