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Global financial markets are experiencing profound shifts due to geopolitical and structural uncertainties, leading family offices globally to reconsider their investment strategies. This emerges from UBS’s “Global Family Office Report 2026”, which surveyed…
A report commissioned by Australia’s Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, which was paid AUD 440,000 (around 231,200 Swiss francs), looked into an IT system intended to automate sanctions in the country’s welfare framework. The original report…
Changi Airport Group has aced the 2025 Randstad Employer Brand Research, recording an impressive attractiveness score of 78.4%. This marks a significant leap from its 2024 score of 69.6%, according to Singapore Business Review. Notably, this triumph marks the…
AEON Credit Service (Asia) Company Limited has announced promising financial results for the three-month period ending May 31, 2025, showcasing its resilience and strategic focus in a competitive market. The company recorded a revenue of HK$442.2 million…
Samsung Electronics announced sharply lower earnings for the fourth quarter, an earnings “shock” that suggested that the “supercycle” in the global semiconductor market is nearing an end. Preliminary 2018 performance numbers released Tuesday predicted the…
Red Cloud is a name few major retailers have yet heard of – but watch this space… Dubbed one of China’s first premium selvedge denim brands by influential fashion media monitor WGSN, it’s one of a new wave of independent denim makers carving out a new raw…
Luk Fook sales in the third quarter fell 10 per cent on a same-store basis. “Recent market sentiment has been adversely impacted by the US-China trade war, the depreciation of Renminbi, and downward pressure in the stock and property markets,” said chairman…
Scams are on the rise in Malaysia, with Ninja Van reporting over 17,000 parcel scam incidents last year alone. The most common of these scams involved cash-on-delivery schemes, where unsuspecting consumers paid for items they never ordered, as detailed by the…
An industry-first study by global ecommerce accelerator, Pattern, has shown that despite their surging popularity, Australian consumers hold negative views on the quality of the products sold on emerging marketplaces Temu and Shein. The major Australian…
Apple got fiscal 2022 off to a great start as the tech giant reported its earnings for the fiscal first quarter of 2022. Apple set a record during the three months from October through December by reporting revenue of $123.9 billion which easily topped Wall…
Apple’s first genuinely new product in a while is expected to see the light of day in the second half of 2022, and it is the alleged AR/VR headset. The rumor mill has been spilling out all kinds of reports and rumors about the device, one of which reveals…
Electric cars are the future, and the year 2021 will offer the slightest glimpse of the electric vehicle (EV) revolution. Though EVs represent a very small percentage of global car sales, several automakers have already made massive investments in electric…
The Delhi Traffic Police released data of accidents in the capital city in 2018 and it shows that the fatalities in road accidents have gone up from 1584 deaths in 2017 to 1690 deaths in 2018. The report states that in 2018, 6515 road accidents occurred in…
Huawei’s continued quest to be one of the world’s largest cloud players took a small step forward with the announcement of a new partnership with Infosys. Huawei Cloud has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with India-based IT firm Infosys in order to…
A new Gartner report, “Platform as a Service: Definition, Taxonomy and Vendor Landscape, 2019” revealed that 48% of 550 PaaS offerings are cloud-only. Not a single vendor has a foothold across all 21 segments, and 90% of them only operate within a single PaaS…
L Brands, the parent of Victoria’s Secret, saw its share price fall 8 per cent after releasing disappointing results and halving its dividend payout. The US-headquartered company is struggling to arrest declining revenue in its flagship lingerie network,…
