Donald Trump’s upcoming summit with Xi Jinping is likely to be dominated and somewhat overshadowed by the ongoing conflict in Iran. In recent months, US attention and military resources have been shifted from Asia to the Middle East, where the war has proven longer and more difficult than anticipated. At the same time, the administration…
Under new EU greenwashing regulations, companies making false or misleading sustainability claims could face hefty penalties as the Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive takes effect on September 27. The most brazen scofflaws should expect fines of up to a 4% of the company’s annual gross income, product recalls, and possible class-action lawsuits, under…
Yoweri Museveni’s net worth is back under scrutiny after Uganda’s longtime leader was sworn in for a seventh term on May 12, 2026, extending his rule into a fifth decade at the center of East African politics. The political moment matters financially because Uganda is approaching one of the most important economic transitions in its…
The other week when I was talking about Web Components in the Corner, I mentioned zero-md, a nice little Web Component for doing exactly that. I had to bite my tongue a little bit though, as the 2.0 public beta hadn’t quite made it out of the door yet. See, the new compiler, among its many…
By Marchel Espina “We’re in an age of eternal disruption,” Glenda Gloria, told participants at WAN-IFRA’s recent Digital Media Asia conference in Manila, Philippines, and noted the January traffic spike on their website that later turned out to be ghost traffic from bots infiltrating Google Analytics. The IP clusters were traced in Lanzhou, China and…
President Donald Trump heads into this week’s summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping with a major embarrassment back home: the legal foundation of his aggressive tariff strategy is rapidly eroding. Trump expects to meet Xi in Beijing from May 14 to May 15 to discuss trade, the war in Iran and, possibly, Taiwan. But the…
Wes Streeting’s net worth is under fresh scrutiny because the Health Secretary is being discussed as one of the Labour figures who could one day succeed Keir Starmer after Labour’s damaging local election results. With Starmer facing internal pressure and Streeting named among possible leadership figures, public interest has moved beyond his NHS brief and…
Industry invested in market expansion and technology, but tariffs loom. It is never good when the most favorable assessment for a given year is, “It could have been worse.” Growing protectionism, slowing economic growth, and increased uncertainty have fueled a challenging business environment over the past 12 months, especially for banks worldwide. Such being the…
“When we try to write an article, we pack all angles in it. That becomes very difficult for us to identify user needs,” said Tan Lee Chin, Digital Product Editor, SPH Media. The newsroom used a custom GPT model developed with SPH Media’s data scientists to analyse a month’s worth of editorial output – 6,006…
For Texas small business owners, healthcare is no longer a benefits decision. It is a marginal decision. With small business health insurance in Texas now averaging $7,000-$9,000 per employee per year for traditional group plans, the cost of covering a 10-person team can rival a full marketing budget. That is why a quiet shift is…