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Tupperware files for bankruptcy protection as demand slumps
Reuters, Published on 18/09/2024
» BENGALURU - Tupperware Brands and some of its subsidiaries filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, succumbing to declining demand for its once-popular colourful food storage containers and ballooning losses.
China new home prices fall at fastest pace in over 9 years
Reuters, Published on 14/09/2024
» BEIJING - China's new home prices fell at the fastest pace in more than nine years in August, official data showed on Saturday, as supportive measures failed to spur a meaningful recovery in the property sector.
7-Eleven deserves more than shareholder primacy
News, Published on 09/09/2024
» Over two weeks from the first report of Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc's bid to acquire Japan's Seven & I Holdings Co, the battle lines for public opinion are being drawn.
Gunman kills 3 Israelis at Jordan-West Bank border crossing
Published on 08/09/2024
» A gunman killed three Israelis at a terminal on Jordan’s border with the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday, the first such incident since the Gaza war began last year.
I'm with the band -- how music made me British
News, Published on 31/08/2024
» 'Wonderwall' is all I remember. The rest of Oasis is a blur to me. I was still living in New York City when the band had their global breakthrough -- and that song was everywhere. From the album (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, it's one of the few mid-1990s songs whose lyrics this Boomer can remember. I admired its Beatles-like off-kilter poetics, its love-will-save-the-day (if not, maybe it'll just save me) sentimentality. And Liam Gallagher's voice, while not beautiful, was pure plaintive Britpop, a plangent inflexion echoing from as far back as 1962's Love Me Do by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
Singapore charges former bankers in laundering case
Bloomberg News, Published on 15/08/2024
» Singapore charged two former bank relationship managers who it accused of being involved in the country’s biggest money-laundering case, marking its first criminal actions against finance professionals in the S$3 billion (US$2.3 billion) scandal.
White supremacists turn UK riots into online recruiting pitch
Published on 11/08/2024
» White supremacist groups have seized on riots in the UK as a recruiting opportunity, using the Telegram messaging site to promote conspiracy theories and incite violence in their bid to lure new members.
Lessons learned from global outage
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 24/07/2024
» The worldwide IT outage on July 19 underscores the need for public and private organisations to have a robust business continuity management plan, IT disaster recovery plan and rigorous system testing between security software vendors and clients, to deal with unexpected future incidents, say IT consulting and security firms.
Esports industry should be embarrassed right now
News, Adam Minter, Published on 15/07/2024
» The first-ever Esports World Cup was launched in Saudi Arabia last weekend with a record-breaking US$60 million (2.1 billion baht) prize pool.
AI's brain fog no defence for arts
News, Published on 05/07/2024
» Ever notice how science fiction gets things wrong about future technology? Instead of flying cars, we got viral tweets that fuelled culture wars. Instead of a fax machine on your wrist, we got memes. We're having a similar reality check with artificial intelligence. Sci-fi painted a future with computers that delivered reliable information in robotic parlance. Yet businesses who've tried plugging generative AI tools into their infrastructure have found, with some dismay, that the tools "hallucinate" and make mistakes. They are hardly reliable. And the tools themselves aren't stiff and mechanistic either. They're almost whimsical.