Posts by Nathan Pine
US dollar depreciation leaves Apac with slowest wealth growth in 2025: UBS
Currency effects have dragged the region’s share of global wealth, though it remains a long-term growth driver [SINGAPORE] The Asia-Pacific recorded the slowest growth in personal wealth in 2025, as the depreciation of the US dollar boosted wealth growth in regions with appreciating currencies. Growth in total personal wealth was 5.9 per cent for Apac,…
Read MoreDaily Telegraph Publisher Sold To Alex Springer For $761M
The Daily Telegraph‘s sale to Germany’s Axel Springer for £575M ($761M) has completed. The deal brings to and end a long period of uncertainty at Telegraph Media Group (TMG), which publishes the 172-year-old Telegraph tabloid newspaper in the UK. It closed after regulatory approval was gained in the UK, Ireland and Austria. Axel Springer, owner…
Read MoreChina claims major breakthrough in “artificial sun” fusion project
China has achieved a major engineering milestone in its fusion energy program, marking a major step forward on what media has dubbed the “artificial sun” project. What Is Fusion? Fusion generates energy by combining light atomic nuclei rather than splitting heavy atoms, the method used in conventional nuclear power plants. While the reaction occurs naturally…
Read MoreGlen Powell And Rob Mac Among Investors In Premier Lacrosse League’s $100M Funding Round
Hollywood A-listers Glen Powell and Rob Mac are among the investors participating in the Premier Lacrosse League’s new $100 million financing round. The Series E round, led by Ares and Joe Tsai, is the largest capital raise in the history of pro lacrosse. ESPN, which took a stake in the league in 2025, made a…
Read MoreParkway Life Reit sells Japan nursing home for US$7.2 million
Amount is about 38% higher than what it paid 18 years ago, and 5% above the latest valuation [SINGAPORE] Parkway Life Real Estate Investment Trust has divested a Japan nursing home property for 1.165 billion Japanese yen (US$7.2 million), representing a premium of about 38 per cent over its 2008 acquisition price. This is about…
Read MoreYouTube Takes Most Of Japanese On-Demand Viewing – AMPD Analytics
YouTube is by far the dominant digital streaming player in Japan, new research shows. Behavioral data from AMDP Analytics shows that the Google video platform commands more than 65% of Japan’s video-on-demand hours, with news and baseball leadin the way genre-wise. AMPD‘s YouTube dashboard intelligence tool shows Japanese audiences watched 2.8 billion hours of content…
Read MoreHow Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Guests Will Get Into Rumored MSG Wedding Unseen
Family is everything to Taylor and Travis, so the VIPs automatically include their respective parents and brothers. Presumable best man Jason Kelce also shares at least two flower girl-age daughters, Wyatt and Elliotte, with wife Kylie Kelce—though depending on when the big day is, little sister Bennett could grow into the role as well. (Alas,…
Read MoreEGP Energy Corporation lodges preliminary prospectus for mainboard IPO
The electrical infrastructure service provider has not disclosed the size of the offering nor listing date [SINGAPORE] Electrical infrastructure solutions and service provider EGP Energy Corporation on Tuesday (Jun 30) lodged a preliminary prospectus to list on the mainboard of the Singapore Exchange (SGX). The proposed offering is the second prospectus lodged on Tuesday, after…
Read MoreElvis And John Lenon, Yoko Ono Docs To Play At Provence Arts Festival
EXCLUSIVE: The Provence Arts Festival du Film is readying for its second edition, focused this year on “a celebration of music and musical artists through documentary cinema.” To that end, the event (renamed from the Dora Maar Film Festival) is programming EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, director Baz Luhrmann’s documentary on the King of Rock…
Read MoreColin Farrell, Steve Coogan Join Rich Peppiatt’s ‘Bad Bridgets’
Rich Peppiatt’s highly anticipated Netflix-backed period tale Bad Bridgets has added a raft of high-profile cast members ahead of its shoot this July. Colin Farrell (Banshees of Inisherin), Steve Coogan (Philomena), Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things), Domhnall Gleeson (Ex Machina), Himesh Patel (Yesterday), Niamh Algar (The Iris Affair) and Simone Kirby ((Kneecap) are joining previously announced…
Read MoreCJ ENM Hong Kong Sells Package Of Thai Dramas To Amazon MX Player In India
CJ ENM Hong Kong, an international production division of the Korean entertainment giant, has sold a package of six Thai dramas produced by True CJ Creations to Amazon MX Player India. All episodes of the six series – Dear My Secretary, Good Doctor, 23:23, Start-Up, Happiness, and Thank You Teacher – will be available on Amazon…
Read MoreGreen card update: Changes happening to applications in July
The Trump administration is tightening its grip on legal immigration, with a series of policy changes taking effect in July that will restrict access to green cards and increase the consequences of application errors. The updates combine new visa limits set out in the State Department’s July 2026 Visa Bulletin with a federal rule that…
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