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This is down from US$3.3 billion in the year-ago period, but vessel deliveries remain on track[SINGAPORE] Marine vessel manufacturer Yangzijiang Shipbuilding reported that its year-to-date order wins for the first quarter of 2025 amount to six vessels worth US$300 million. This is around 5 per cent of its US$6 billion target for the 2025 financial year, it said in a quarterly business update on Thursday (May 22).In the same period last year, it won orders for 38 vessels worth US$3.3 billion, or 74 per cent of its target. Yangzijiang Shipbuilding’s total order wins for FY2024 stood at 126, with a…

NEW YORK — To survive warming oceans, clownfish cope by shrinking in size.Scientists observed that some of the orange-striped fish shrank their bodies during a heat wave off the coast of Papa New Guinea. Fish that slimmed were more likely to survive.Heat waves are becoming more common and intense underwater due to climate change. Warmer water temperatures can bleach sea anemones that clownfish call home, forcing them to adapt to stay alive.Scientists monitored and measured 134 colorful clownfish in Kimbe Bay during an intense heat wave in 2023 that’s still bleaching corals worldwide. They found that 101 clownfish decreased in…

‘Hold My Hand,’ performed by Lady Gaga won the Emmy for Outstanding Music Direction.

The Tether (USDT) stablecoin logo.Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesHong Kong passed a stablecoin bill on Wednesday to expand its cryptocurrency licensing regime as more governments recognize the digital asset.Unlike volatile digital assets like bitcoin, the value of stablecoins is tied to a real-world asset like fiat currencies or commodities like gold.The new law — focused on fiat-referenced stablecoins — will require stablecoin issuers to obtain a license from the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and comply with a range of requirements, including proper management of asset reserves and segregation of client assets.It will “enhance Hong Kong’s existing regulatory framework on…

[SINGAPORE] Family offices (FOs) in the Asia-Pacific favoured equities and bonds from developed markets in 2024 and plan to increase their strategic allocations into these asset classes in 2025, a report by UBS showed.On average, an Apac FO allocated 24 per cent to equities and 20 per cent to bonds from developed markets in 2024, according to UBS’ Global Family Office Report 2025.South-east Asian FOs – which are ones that book their assets in that region – allocated 27 per cent to equities and 22 per cent to bonds from developed markets in the year.The interest in bonds is in…

Extra cancer screenings for women with dense breasts could save hundreds of lives, according to a new study.Researchers from the University of Cambridge found extra scans for some women could identify an extra 3,500 early-stage cancers that can be “hidden” during regular mammograms. Around 10% of women have very dense breasts, which means they have more fibrous and glandular tissue and less fatty tissue than other women.These women are up to four times more likely to develop breast cancer compared to women with low breast density. Image: Mammogram images showing fatty/less dense (left) and dense (right) healthy breasts. Pic: Cambridge…

MILFORD, Mass., 22 de mayo de 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) anunció hoy que ha adquirido Halo Labs™, un innovador en tecnologías de imágenes especializadas para detectar, identificar y contar materiales interferentes (partículas) en productos terapéuticos, como terapias celulares, proteicas y genéticas. La plataforma Aura™ de Halo Labs incorpora una tecnología altamente diferenciada que realiza análisis de partículas de espectro completo y complementa las soluciones de detección por dispersión de luz de Waters de su portafolio Wyatt Technology™. Por ejemplo, su tecnología de partículas subvisibles proporciona información adicional al caracterizar partículas externas utilizadas para amplificar células T CAR para…

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WASHINGTON — Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives came together early Thursday to pass President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax bill out of the chamber on a narrow vote.Every Democrat on the floor voted no, as did Republican Reps. Warren Davidson of Ohio and Thomas Massie of Kentucky. Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., who chairs the conservative House Freedom Caucus, voted present. The final vote tally was 215-214.The passage was a major victory for Republican leaders, who spent the past two months crafting the bill and the past two days making last-minute changes to it. The more than 1,000 pages of…

[BENGALURU] Gold prices rose on Wednesday (May 21) as the US dollar slipped to a two-week low and investors sought safety amid US fiscal uncertainty, with Congress debating a sweeping tax bill. Spot gold was up 0.4 per cent at US$3,300.72 an ounce, as at 0035 GMT. US gold futures gained 0.6 per cent to US$3,304. The US dollar retreated to its lowest level since May 8, making greenback-priced gold cheaper for overseas currency holders. Trump on Tuesday pressed his fellow Republicans in the US Congress to unite behind a sweeping tax-cut bill, but apparently failed to convince a handful…