Posts by Swedan Margen
OKP unit wins S$258.3 million LTA contract to construct new cycling paths in east
[SINGAPORE] A unit of mainboard-listed infrastructure and civil engineering company OKP has won a contract worth S$258.3 million from the Land Transport Authority (LTA) for the construction of new cycling path networks in the eastern region of Singapore. This is the largest contract in value that OKP has secured to date. It also marks the…
Read MoreWee Hur sets up S$500 million medium-term note programme
Notes to be issued may be in Singapore dollars or any other currency, in various amounts and tenors, and may bear interest at fixed, floating or hybrid rates or not bear any interest [SINGAPORE] Property company Wee Hur has established a S$500 million multi-currency medium term note programme, it said via a bourse filing on…
Read MoreDon’t Fear AI
ChatGPT is coming for your job. This sounds dire, but we’ve been here before. Source link
Read MoreDomestic Ship-Production Rule Hinders National Defense
Allowing American companies to use foreign-built ships for cabotage would lower shipping costs and encourage trade. Source link
Read MoreThe Week: Tariffs in the Dock
Plus: Harvard vs. the Trump administration. Source link
Read MoreWes Anderson Shows How the World Works
The Phoenician Scheme reminds us what matters. Source link
Read MoreWilliam F. Buckley Jr.: The Most Influential Journalist in American History
It is hard to imagine the history of the country and its political cycles having gone the way they did without his enormous influence. Source link
Read MoreDon’t Increase Taxes and Crowd Out Civil Society
Institutions of civil society should not become the newest source of revenue for a Congress unwilling to confront its spending problem. Source link
Read MoreSingapore stocks fall as Trump tariffs resume for now; STI retreats 0.6%
[SINGAPORE] Local equities ended Friday (May 30) lower, after an appeals court in the United States paused a ruling that blocked President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs. The benchmark Straits Times Index declined 0.6 per cent or 22.23 points to 3,894.6. Across the broader market, decliners beat gainers 248 to 209, as 1.3 billion securities worth…
Read MoreFuji Offset Plates Manufacturing shares jump 67% after former Dyna-Mac CEO AC Lim buys S$4.5 million stake
[SINGAPORE] It appears former Dyna-Mac chairman and chief executive Lim Ah Cheng – better known in the industry as AC Lim – is working his magic again. Lim, who was credited with steering offshore oil and gas contractor Dyna-Mac from the brink of bankruptcy, has agreed to subscribe to 10 million new shares in Fuji…
Read MoreJohn Singer Sargent’s Scandalous “Madame X”
Summer is a season ripe for scandal; people tend to be overheated and understimulated, looking to mist their crisping minds with idle gossip. Minor controversies can boil over, given the right temperature, into full-on imbroglios; such was the case in Paris in 1884, when the twenty-eight-year-old painter John Singer Sargent débuted a new large-scale portrait…
Read MoreEnergy Market Authority chairman Richard Lim to step down; ex-perm sec Tan Ching Yee to assume role
[SINGAPORE] Energy Market Authority (EMA) chairman Richard Lim, 71, will step down in September after leading the board for five years. Lim will relinquish his appointment on Sep 30, the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) said on Friday (May 30). He will be succeeded by former permanent secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office for…
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