Entrepreneurship

Gold poised for weekly fall as bets fade for big Fed rate cut
[BENGALURU] Gold was subdued on Friday (Aug 15) and was heading for a weekly fall, as hotter-than-expected US inflation data dented expectations for a super-sized 50 basis points US...
Wee Hur H1 profit falls 42% to S$38.7 million
[SINGAPORE] Property company Wee Hur on Thursday (Aug 14) posted a 42 per cent decline in net profit to S$38.7 million for the six months ended Jun 30, 2025,...
How Nippon Paint tycoon Goh Cheng Liang grew his empire to a US$13 billion fortune 
[SINGAPORE] Singapore’s richest man Goh Cheng Liang, who died this week, kept a low profile for years compared with his other billionaire counterparts. The self-made tycoon, who was 98...
Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms And a Test to Recognize Them
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is one of the most emotionally intense and misunderstood mental health conditions. Mislabeled or mistaken for mood disorders like bipolar or anxiety, BPD is rooted...
US: S&P 500, Nasdaq hit record highs at open on September rate cut hopes
Published Wed, Aug 13, 2025 · 09:45 PM[NEW YORK] Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Wednesday (Aug 13) with the benchmark S&P 500 and the Nasdaq hitting record...
United Overseas Insurance aims to increase technology investments by almost 50% by 2029
[SINGAPORE] United Overseas Insurance (UOI), the general insurance arm of UOB, will increase its technology investments by almost 50 per cent from 2023 levels by 2029. This will involve rolling...
Paytm shares surge after RBI grants payment aggregator license
Payment aggregators are platforms that provide diverse payments options to customers, including merchantsPublished Wed, Aug 13, 2025 · 01:06 PM[MUMBAI] Shares of One 97 Communications surged to the highest...
Norway’s US$1.9 trillion wealth fund returns 5.7% in H1
[OSLO] Norway’s sovereign wealth fund returned 5.7 per cent and slightly missed its target in the first six months of 2025. The US$1.9 trillion fund’s return was led by equities,...
Computer-driven traders are bullish on stocks, humans are bears
THE thing about trading stocks is everyone has an opinion. And right now there’s an unusual divergence in the market that’s as stark as man versus machine.Computer-guided traders haven’t...
US licenses Nvidia to export chips to China, official says
[BENGALURU] The commerce department has started issuing licences to Nvidia to export its H20 chips to China, a US official told Reuters on Friday (Aug 8), removing a significant...
Sri Trang Agro-Industry swings to net loss of 786.8 million baht in Q2
[SINGAPORE] Sri Trang Agro-Industry swung to a net loss of 786.8 million baht (S$31.3 million) for the second quarter ended June, from earnings of 628.4 million baht in the year-ago...
Remote Work Isn’t Just “Work from Home”
Remote work is nowhere near WFH. I mean, at some point it is, but there’s more to it. This is the point where people started during the pandemic. But...