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Eli Remolona, governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, during the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Spring meetings at the IMF headquarters in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, April 25, 2025. Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBANGKOK — The Philippine central bank is planning for a “Godzilla” El Niño on top of a prolonged oil shock, as the Southeast Asian nation tries to rein in inflation from three-year highs.Governor Eli Remolona said Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas now sets policy using scenarios that factor in oil prices and the severity of the weather event. “We have the regular, ordinary El Niño,…
[SINGAPORE] A chip stock sell-off in Singapore deepened on Wednesday (Oct 14) as AEM Holdings shares continued falling, with peers also affected.AEM was down 4.4 per cent at S$9.57 as at 2.50 pm, having fallen 8 per cent the previous day. Systems integrator CSE Global also tumbled on Wednesday, falling as much as 8.2 per cent to S$1.01. UMS Integration fell 3 per cent and Frencken was down 1.7 per cent at S$2.35.Singapore chip stocks have also been beneficiaries of the global boom in the artificial intelligence trade, but questions about its sustainability have intensified. Hock Tan, CEO of American…
Finnish production company Whatever Pictures has signed a new global sales deal with ORF-Enterprise, part of Austrian braodcaster ORF, which has acquired international distribution rights to the comedy drama “Crème de la Crème.” Commissioned domestically by Finnish broadcaster YLE, the show is written and directed by showrunner Jukka Vidgrén, Topi Koljonen, Henna Rinnekangas, Juuso Laatio and Anna Heinämaa. Vidgrén and Antti Kaarlela produce. It follows Joonas, a young farmer, who lives on his childhood dairy farm and takes pride in the rural lifestyle. He enjoys the work, but the farm is on the brink of collapse, with no clear future…
Bee propolis is a resin-like substance bees make from plants and use to protect the hive. People use it for a range of things, from soothing a sore throat to helping with minor skin problems and wound healing, and many people also take it for immune support. But can propolis also help with allergies? The short answer is: maybe, but we don’t have enough good human research yet to know for sure. Lab and animal studies are promising, and there are a few human studies too. But so far, the evidence isn’t strong enough to say that propolis reliably helps…
TROPICANA FIELD (St. Petersburg, Fla.) — Game 2 of the ALCS was simple for the Rays. Just win. After watching a two-run lead slip away in Monday’s series opener, the last thing Tampa Bay wanted was to fall further behind against the Guardians and leave their home turf in a serious deficit. So all they had to do was respond. Rays manager Kevin Cash liked the way his players walked into the ballpark on Tuesday after suffering a deflating loss. He thought they were in a good headspace to even the series, reset the matchup, and regain their confidence. So they did. The Rays…
A federal judge late Tuesday night indefinitely blocked the White House from enforcing a ban on three media outlets that President Donald Trump announced in mid-September.The preliminary injunction by Judge Timothy Kelly extends his existing block on Trump’s ban of MS NOW, CNN and Politico from the White House complex.”President Trump’s own comments suggest that he intended the revocation of Plaintiffs’ hard passes to alter their reporting on him,” wrote Kelly, who was nominated by Trump for his seat in U.S. District Court in Washington.Kelly in his written opinion said the three outlets were likely to succeed on the claim…
U.S. federal agents have arrested an engineer at OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, after the man allegedly planted a listening device inside an executive conference room at headquarters. Jo Ling Kent reports.
The General Services Administration is still not meeting the Geospatial Data Act of 2018’s requirement to maintain geospatial data, an Office of Inspector General report published Monday found. Previous 2024 and 2022 OIG audits also found that GSA was not fully compliant with the federal law.GSA has two publicly available geospatial datasets — the Inventory of Owned and Leased Properties Dataset and the Federal Real Property Profile Dataset — that contain inaccurate or missing latitude and longitude coordinates, the OIG found. The watchdog noted that about 78,624 — or 26% — of properties in the FRPP dataset with coordinates lacked distinct…
Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the former California gang leader convicted of murder for orchestrating the 1996 fatal shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur, has been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison.“For three years, I’ve heard you say some variation of the same thing … ‘Yeah, I was involved in this. But I’m different. I’ve moved on. I got out of Compton. I’m a grandfather now,’” Judge Carli Kierny said Tuesday as she delivered the sentence.“You don’t get to take a man from his family. You don’t get to take his very life, his whole future from him and just…
What do a five-star quarterback from California who once committed to play for Nick Saban and a three-star prospect from Texas who nearly started his career at Indiana have in common?More than you might think.Ohio State’s Julian Sayin and Indiana’s Josh Hoover took different paths to get where they are today, but like the quarterbacks who came before them, I believe both have the talent to lead a team to a national championship.Two Paths To Stardom: Sayin vs. HooverJulian Sayin was supposed to be the next big thing at Alabama. A five-star recruit, he committed to the Crimson Tide with…