Posts by Kim Browne
China’s Chery looking to expand car production in Europe, top executives say
It prefers to use existing production capacity instead of investing in a new assembly plant Published Sun, Apr 12, 2026 · 07:36 PM [PARIS] Chery is looking to expand car production in Europe through partnerships with other vehicle makers, allowing it to use existing factories, top executives at the Chinese carmaker said at an event…
Read MoreSearching for FIFA Founder Jules Rimet
With the war over, Rimet could focus on what mattered: the World Cup. In 1946 a FIFA congress in Luxembourg renamed the trophy the “Coupe Jules Rimet”—”to my great confusion,” he writes modestly. For the first post-war World Cup, in Brazil in 1950, Rimet repeated the transatlantic crossing that he had made for the inaugural…
Read MoreLatest STI CEO appointees younger than past cohorts, but renewal focuses on capabilities, not youth
Long-serving individuals can bring valuable continuity, institutional memory and stakeholder trust [SINGAPORE] Chief executive officers who took the helm at Straits Times Index (STI) companies in 2025 were younger than their predecessors, the firms’ annual reports show. The sole exception was Genting Singapore , where Lim Kok Thay, 74, stepped in as acting CEO after…
Read MoreVideo: How the Iran War Is Affecting Inflation
new video loaded: How the Iran War Is Affecting Inflation Ben Casselman, our chief economics correspondent, describes how the increase in prices as a result of the war in Iran is beginning to show up in the data, and what could come next. By Ben Casselman, Nour Idriss, Stephanie Swart and Sutton Raphael April 11,…
Read MoreThe MAGA Civil War Is Just Getting Started
Greene, Carlson, Owens, and Jones—all in slightly different ways—have been channeling many of the novel parts of Trump’s politics: populism, conspiracy theorizing, and a profound distrust of political, economic, and cultural elites. They have advanced Trump’s agenda while also filling its holes and fleshing it out—part of a larger effort on the right to translate…
Read MoreHermes sticks with plan to raise output even as war sours mood
The company’s leather-goods plants are all in France and typically employ about 260 artisans Published Sat, Apr 11, 2026 · 03:06 PM [PARIS] Hermes opened a 25th leather-goods plant in France, pushing ahead with plans to increase production despite a luxury demand slowdown and fresh uncertainty induced by the Iran war. Hermes’ top brass, led…
Read MoreUS likely to extend Russian oil waiver to temper Iran war shock: sources
Oil prices have spiked since the start of the war due to the partial closure of the Strait of Hormuz Published Sat, Apr 11, 2026 · 02:10 PM [WASHINGTON] US President Donald Trump’s administration is likely to extend as soon as Friday (Apr 10) a waiver allowing countries to buy some sanctioned Russian oil and…
Read MoreRaskin Demands White House Physician Make Trump Take Cognitive Test
“Experts have repeatedly warned that the President has been exhibiting signs consistent with dementia and cognitive decline. And, in recent days, the country has watched President Trump’s public statements and outbursts turn increasingly incoherent, volatile, profane, deranged, and threatening,” wrote Raskin. “His apparently deteriorating condition has caused tremendous alarm across the nation (and political spectrum)…
Read MoreDems Demand Answers From Bill Pulte About Shady Charity Donation
Democratic lawmakers are demanding answers from Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, about a massive donation his organization made that may have lined the pockets of President Donald Trump. In a letter Friday to Pulte, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden and Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren accused the…
Read MoreTrump Promises to Pardon Everybody Before He Leaves Office
Trump’s war began with the U.S. conducting a missile strike on a girls’ primary school in Minab that killed at least 168 children and 14 teachers. A preliminary inquiry found that the use of outdated intelligence caused the school to be labeled as a military target. On the same day, a missile strike ripped through…
Read MoreTrump Team Admits It Based Blue State Fraud Probe on Faulty Data
Trump’s war began with the U.S. conducting a missile strike on a girls’ primary school in Minab that killed at least 168 children and 14 teachers. A preliminary inquiry found that the use of outdated intelligence caused the school to be labeled as a military target. On the same day, a missile strike ripped through…
Read MoreTrump’s Plan to Create Peace in Gaza Is Already a Mess
Trump’s war began with the U.S. conducting a missile strike on a girls’ primary school in Minab that killed at least 168 children and 14 teachers. A preliminary inquiry found that the use of outdated intelligence caused the school to be labeled as a military target. On the same day, a missile strike ripped through…
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