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Cate Blanchett Spotlights French Luxury Fashion at 2026 Cannes Film Festival
Cate Blanchett embraced runway fare and custom styles in Givenchy and Louis Vuitton on Saturday and Sunday during the 2026 Cannes Film Festival in France. Cate Blanchett Getty Images...
Kaia Gerber, Cindy Crawford, Shawn Mendes and More Hit the Gucci Cruise 2027 After Party
Where else to go after shutting down Times Square but a Midtown mansion? Following Gucci’s cruise 2027 runway show, which took over Times Square and its many screens Saturday...
Dua Lipa Goes Mirror Monochrome in Silver Le Silla Sandals at Cannes
Dua Lipa traded color-blocked Cannes footwear for a full silver read on Friday, wearing Le Silla’s Shirley sandals to the Nespresso x Dua Lipa photocall. The singer attended the...
Demi Moore Pushes Cannes Volume to the Extreme in Hot Pink Matières Fécales
Demi Moore pushed her Cannes volume to its most extreme point yet on Saturday, arriving for the “Paper Tiger” screening at the 79th annual Cannes Film Festival in hot...
World
“The Audacity” Is a Brutal Silicon Valley Satire with an Agenda
Midway through my watch of the new tech-satire series “The Audacity,” I received an e-mail from Google that I had received many times before. My personal data had been...
Biking Outside the Lines in New York City
Thirty-nine years ago this summer, Ed Koch, the mayor of New York City, held a press conference on the steps of City Hall, where he declared a bicycle ban...
Can Art Teach, and Should It Try?
Calling something “didactic” has become grounds for immediate dismissal. But do the merits of works with an educational bent—from “The Pitt” to “Elizabeth Costello”—suggest we should think again? ...
Rostam Batmanglij Wanders to the Edges of American Sound
Other songs on “American Stories” are more personal. “Like a Spark” opens with a blues riff played on a nylon-string guitar, offset by the appearance of a saz, a...
Business
ST Engineering Q1 revenue rises 11% to S$3.3 billion on strong segment growth
The group also declares an interim dividend of S$0.04 per share, unchanged from the year before[SINGAPORE] ST Engineering posted an 11 per cent rise in revenue to S$3.3 billion...
Ford’s Legendary Falcon Factory May Return — As An AI Data Hub
Image Credit: Ford Falcon XB GT, CC BY-SA 2.0 / WikiMedia Commons. For decades, the Ford Australia Broadmeadows factory stood as one of the most important automotive plants in...
Is Jardine C&C likely to be taken private?
Most of its value resides in Jakarta-listed Astra International, while its own parent has secondary listing in Singapore[SINGAPORE] Some market watchers might have been left scratching their heads the...
Cate Blanchett Spotlights French Luxury Fashion at 2026 Cannes Film Festival
Cate Blanchett embraced runway fare and custom styles in Givenchy and Louis Vuitton on Saturday and Sunday during the 2026 Cannes Film Festival in France. Cate Blanchett Getty Images...
News
The Democrats Just Laid Down Their Arms. Again.
A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies, or IPS, takes a deep dive into the battery of corporations they call the “Low Wage 20”: 20 firms that...
MAGA is Reeling as Trump Welcomes Chinese Students to the U.S.
“The assassination attempts make clear what Defendants have been explaining from the start of the case: Presidents need a secure space for significant events, which currently does not exist...
Trump Posts Price Chart Full of “Breathtaking” Lies
On February 10, Donald Trump purchased between $1 million and $5 million worth of stock in Nvidia, a massive AI chip maker. A week later, Nvidia announced a major...
Group That Escaped Trump’s Kennedy Center Takeover Is Thriving
The Washington National Opera has found new life since it steered away from Donald Trump’s control.The 70-year-old opera company departed its longtime home at the John F. Kennedy Center...
Beauty
Valuations reflect growth prospects as Siemens Energy expands capacity
Reported net profit was Rs 310 crore. Excluding the impact of the new labour code, adjusted net profit was Rs 360 crore. Net profit was also boosted...
AI integration in road, transport can help avoid accidents: MoRTH official
There is a lot of scope for AI integration in the road and transport industry to help avoid accidents and check issues of vehicular pollution, a government official...
T20 WC: It”s about adapting, says England’s Tom Banton on new No 4 role
England batter Tom Banton says he is relishing his new role at No.4, adding that he is now "older" and "more mature" with a better understanding of his...
StatsGuru: AI companies seek footing in India, need funding boost
Individuals and companies from over 30 countries will participate at the five-day India Artificial Intelligence (AI) Impact Summit 2026 beginning Monday. Of the 32,600 AI companies globally, India...
Celebrity
UP govt receives ₹20,300 crore of FDI proposals amid investor push
These proposals have flowed in under the “Uttar Pradesh FDI/FCI, Fortune Global 500, and Fortune India 500 Company Investment Promotion Policy 2023”, the government said.
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Traffic curbs in Delhi for AI Impact Summit 2026: Check advisory here
New Delhi is under heightened security as the five-day AI Impact Summit begins today, February 16, at Bharat Mandapam. The Delhi police have deployed over 10,000 personnel and have...
Sanjay’s 68, bowlers seal 31-run win as USA stay alive for Super 8 round
Sanjay Krishnamurthi's explosive unbeaten half-century followed by a disciplined bowling show powered USA to a crucial 31-run win over Namibia, in a must-win Group C clash here on...
India-US trade deal: Transparency on constraints and commitments needed
When I heard of the trade deal that would end the punitive tariff of 25 per cent for buying Russian oil and reduce the reciprocal tariff on Indian...
Culture
Is Jardine C&C likely to be taken private?
Most of its value resides in Jakarta-listed Astra International, while its own parent has secondary listing in Singapore[SINGAPORE] Some market watchers might have been left scratching their heads the...
Buybacks, insider activity and capital moves
IN THE five trading sessions to the May 14 close, 16 primary-listed companies conducted buybacks with a total consideration of S$42 million.Over the same period, more than 120 director...
‘Three months to decide, three years to list’: Singapore noodlemaker Leong Guan eyes growth after IPO
The company is aiming for new acquisitions and export markets among its post-listing goals[SINGAPORE] When Lim Tze Chiang first considered the possibility of taking Leong Guan public in 2022,...
Tata Electronics and ASML partner on India’s first semiconductor fab
India has pledged billions of dollars in subsidies to attract semiconductor-related plantsPublished Sun, May 17, 2026 · 09:54 AMTATA Electronics and ASML on Saturday signed an agreement to build...
Style
Dean’s Is Not Your Average Pub
The stargazy pie at Dean’s—a new British-ish, pub-ish restaurant on the edge of SoHo—is, in a word, freaky. The head of a fish, cooked and glossy gray, emerges from...
Chaos Isn’t A Threat—It’s Free Market Share
I’ve lived through war headlines, pandemics, platform shifts, and now the drumbeat of AI. Every time the world shakes, I see the same pattern. Panic takes out the unprepared....
The Generation That Will Always Be Too Young to Smoke
Like almost every smoker, I started when I was a child. Children aren’t supposed to smoke; it’s allegedly a part of the adult world, something you get inducted into...
Stop Accepting Bad Marketing Agencies As Normal
I built and sold two ecommerce companies. Then I started advising brands. What I saw made me want to fix a broken system. Too many businesses are stuck with...
Fashion
ST Engineering Q1 revenue rises 11% to S$3.3 billion on strong segment growth
The group also declares an interim dividend of S$0.04 per share, unchanged from the year before[SINGAPORE] ST Engineering posted an 11 per cent rise in revenue to S$3.3 billion...
Singapore launches first EV fast-charging hub within an HDB car park at Tengah
The hub has 14 charging points, eight of which are fast-chargers capable of up to 100 kW of power output[SINGAPORE] National power company SP Group and EV-Electric Charging debuted...
DayOne considering dual IPO in Singapore and US, FT reports
Reuters reported in February that DayOne planned to raise US$5 billion in a US IPO that could value the company at US$20 billionPublished Sun, May 17, 2026 · 01:22...
DayOne plans dual IPO in Singapore and US, FT reports
Published Sun, May 17, 2026 · 01:22 PMGLOBAL data centre operator DayOne, affiliated with China’s GDS Holdings, is planning to list simultaneously in Singapore and the US in a...
