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From villains to Indiana Jones: Everything we learned at Disney’s parks panel at the 2024 D23 Expo
The time of villains has come.
'Deadpool & Wolverine' tops $1 billion at the global box office
The "Merc with a Mouth" is breaking even more box office records.
Kishore Mahbubani on Singapore’s ‘secrets’ to success and why he annoyed Lee Kuan Yew
“One key reason why so many international students enrolled at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy was that they wanted to find out the secret reasons why Singapore had done so well in governance. Hence, to every incoming class, I would give a lecture in which I freely gave away the “secret” of Singapore’s exceptional success. I boiled it down to a simple, easily memorised acronym: MPH. Most people know this acronym well, as they associate it with “miles per hour.” However, in my lecture, MPH stood for meritocracy, pragmatism, and honesty. I also gave the students a 100 per cent guarantee: if they could ruthlessly apply MPH in their countries, their countries would succeed as Singapore had done. And I told them that I had personally applied the MPH principles in building up the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
Japan corporate profits up 10% on weak yen, AI demand
TOKYO -- Japan's listed companies are performing well, posting a year-on-year combined net profit increase of 10% in April to June on continued AI-related demand and the weak yen, according to data compiled by Nikkei. But corrections in the local currency and sluggish demand in China offer some cause for concern.
Can democracy in South Asia withstand US-China rivalry?
Overall, the outlook for democracy in South Asia appears grim, with ongoing shifts towards authoritarianism and mobocracy showing little sign of reversal. The impact on stability in the region as well as global geopolitics will continue to unfold, as major powers navigate this complex and volatile landscape.
Malaysia's prime minister lauds country's burgeoning chip hub status as Infineon opens new plant
Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim made the case for his country's attractiveness as a chipmaking hub at the opening ceremony of Infineon's semiconductor fabrication facility in Malaysia's Kulim district.
AI-driven data centre expansion tests Asia-Pacific’s renewable energy readiness
The push to store and process data domestically will ramp up demand for data centres, which put enormous pressure on resources such as land, water and particularly energy.