Corporate governance improves at S’pore-listed firms but new areas of concern emerge amid pandemic
SINGAPORE - Companies listed in Singapore continued to improve their corporate governance standards this year, with smaller firms making the...
Month: August 2021
O.K. Lim’s daughter Lim Huey Ching charged with obstruction of justice
SINGAPORE - Lim Huey Ching, the daughter of former oil tycoon Lim Oon Kuin and an executive director of insolvent...
She Said: Patricia Clarkson to star in Harvey Weinstein sexual assault breakout story
Hollywood star Patricia Clarkson has been roped in for Universal Pictures ‘She Said’, based on New York Times reporters Megan...
‘Jessica Jones’ actor Mike Colter joins Gerard Butler in Lionsgate’s ‘The Plane’
‘Luke Cage’ , ‘Jessica Jones’ actor Mike Jolter is all set to join the star cast of Lionsgate’s upcoming thriller,...
Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon roped in for Netflix’s ‘Your Place Or Mine’
Ashton Kutcher will next be seen opposite Reese Witherspoon in Netflix romcom ‘Your Place or Mine’. The film has been...
Singapore’s tech start-ups raised $5.3b in first half of 2021, up from $3.4b in 2020
SINGAPORE - Tech start-ups in Singapore raised $5.3 billion in the first half of this year, up from $3.4 billion...
‘My job was to let my mother talk’: Shirley Jackson’s son on a book of her letters
It has taken a while for the world to catch up to the disturbing works of Shirley Jackson. Although she...
Billy Summers by Stephen King review – his best book in years
No matter what he writes, Stephen King will always be considered a horror novelist. It’s unavoidable now; he is responsible...
Ranveer Singh finalised for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Baiju Bawra’: report
Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh has been roped in for ace film director Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s next ‘Baiju Bawra’, reports an...
The Equalizer review – farcical fun with Queen Latifah’s avenging angel
First The Equalizer was Edward Woodward. He equalised things on television from 1985 to 1989 – a one-man A-Team without...