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SIA Engineering H2 net profit up 87.3% at S$70.8 million
SIA Engineering (SIAEC) reported an 87.3 per cent jump in net profit to S$70.8 million for the six months ended March 2025 from S$37.8 million in the same period the previous year. The mainboard-listed group’s revenue for the second half rose 15.3 per cent to S$668.9 million from S$580.2 million in the year-ago period, said…
Read More‘Rivals’ Season 2 Adds Four More Episodes As Cameras Roll On Disney+ UK Hit
Disney+‘s Rivals is back and Season 2 has been supercharged. Cameras have now rolled on the second season of the Jilly Cooper adaptation starring David Tennant, Aidan Turner and Danny Dyer, and the series has been given a rare 12-ep order, up from eight in Season 1. The first season has been Disney+’s most successful…
Read MoreHas Robert Francis Prevost Seen Conclave? His Brother Says…
Robert Francis Prevost was ready to become Pope Leo XIV. After the Chicago native was elected, his brother John Prevost detailed their final conversation before he was sequestered with 132 other cardinals—which included the burning question of whether the new pope had seen Conclave starring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci. “I said, ‘Did you watch…
Read MoreSony Pictures Television Unveils LA Screenings Slate; ‘The Lady’ & ‘Titanic Sinks Tonight’ Get First-Look Photos
EXCLUSIVE: The LA Screenings return later this month, so here’s something to get the ball rolling ahead of the glamorous industry event. Sony Pictures Television has unveiled its Screenings slate, with details in full below. At the same time, the Culver City-based studio has shared exclusive first-look images for two of its buzz titles, The…
Read More‘Stranger Things’ Star Dacre Montgomery To Star In & Make Directorial Debut With ‘The Engagement Party’; Metro Launching For Cannes Market
EXCLUSIVE: Stranger Things and Elvis star Dacre Montgomery‘s directorial debut is gaining traction ahead of a planned shoot later this year. Montgomery will star in the film alongside Lily Sullivan (Evil Dead Rise), Abbey Lee (Mad Max: Fury Road) and Arlo Green (M3GAN) and Metro International has boarded sales for the Cannes market. Madman Entertainment…
Read MoreEmployee overhears disturbing truth about coworker’s baby fundraiser
An office worker is appealing for advice after overhearing a colleague admit that she intends to spend a $2,800 GoFundMe campaign for her supposedly sick baby on a “girls trip” instead. According to a since-deleted Reddit post by Special-Hold-5142, the revelation came when the colleague, described as 27-year-old “Alison,” was unaware that others were present…
Read MoreEdinburgh Film Festival To Open Midnight Madness Strand With Secret Ben Wheatley Film ‘BULK’
EXCLUSIVE: The 2025 edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s (EIFF) Midnight Madness strand will open with the world premiere screening of BULK, a new secretly shot feature from Ben Wheatley. Produced by Andy Starke of Rook Films and financed by Film4, BULK is described as a “return to the thrillingly free-spirited filmmaker’s homegrown, kaleidoscopic…
Read MoreTrump moves to end legal tool used to fight discrimination: Live Updates
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order directing federal agencies to stop using a long-standing legal standard known as “disparate impact liability,” a cornerstone of civil rights enforcement for over 50 years. The move significantly alters how discrimination cases are investigated and prosecuted across the federal government. What to Know: The executive order instructs…
Read MoreThaiBev Q2 profit down 3.2% at 6.7 billion baht; declares dividend of 0.15 baht per share
[SINGAPORE] Chang beer maker Thai Beverage (ThaiBev) on Friday (May 9) announced that its profit for the second quarter ended Mar 31, 2025, lowered 3.2 per cent on-year to 6.7 billion baht (S$263.5 million), from seven billion baht in the corresponding year-ago period. This translates to earnings per share (EPS) of 0.27 baht, down from…
Read MoreCannes Film Festival Workers Launch Fresh Call To Action Over Precarious Working Conditions
Cannes Film Festival staff are among a collective of French cultural workers who have launched a fresh call to action over what they have described as their precarious and unfair working conditions. In a statement shared today, and available to read in full below, advocacy group Sous Les Écrans La Dèche: Collectif Des Précaires Des…
Read MoreStar Of BBC’s ‘Bargain Hunt’ Pleads Guilty To Terror Financing-Related Offences
A regular expert on hit BBC show Bargain Hunt has pleaded guilty to offences related to terror financing in a first of its kind case. Oghenochuko Ojiri just admitted eight counts under the Terrorism Act 2000 of failing to make a disclosure during the course of business, according to BBC News. The prosecution is a…
Read MoreCommerzbank profit unexpectedly rises in boost to CEO Orlopp
[FRANKFURT] Commerzbank’s first-quarter profit unexpectedly rose to the highest in 14 years as commissions increased, and the German lender set aside less money than expected for souring loans. Net income increased 12 per cent from a year earlier and operating profit hit a record, Commerzbank said in a statement on Friday (May 9) from Frankfurt.…
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