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[BANGKOK] Thailand’s central bank cut its key interest rate by a quarter point for a second consecutive meeting on Wednesday (Apr 30), in a move to support an underperforming economy facing uncertainty over steep US tariffs. The Bank of Thailand’s (BOT) monetary policy committee voted 5-2 to reduce the one-day repurchase rate by 25 basis points to 1.75 per cent, the lowest level in two years. That followed a similar reduction at the previous meeting in February.The central bank on Wednesday cut its growth forecast for 2025 to 2 per cent, down from just above 2.5 per cent seen in February…
Tech giant Google has officially confirmed that it will be bringing the Pixel Buds Pro to India this month. The TWS earbuds will be up for pre-order starting July 21, with retail sales starting a week later on July 28. Google hadn’t revealed the availability of the Pixel Buds Pro when it was revealed globally back in May. The Buds Pro are Google’s first earbuds to come with Active Noise Cancellation. It will join the Pixel Buds A series that’s already on sale in the country. The Google Pixel Buds Pro come with custom-designed hardware, algorithms and sensors that allow the earbuds…
Perez was born in New Jersey to parents of Cuban heritage and raised mostly in southern Florida. Her parents sent their four daughters to a Christian school. Celene loved to act and sing — she dreamed of making it to Broadway — and Perez followed her to local theater productions, usually ending up in the ensemble. When she was 15, she started to write songs in earnest, fiddling around with piano, ukulele and guitar. She binge-listened to Troye Sivan and Hayley Kyioko, queer artists whose work she said “literally saved my life”; Kyioko’s “Girls Like Girls” became a kind of…
David Helman NFL Reporter There’s a fun irony to this time of year. We know the draft is unpredictable. We know a lot of opinions thrown around immediately after it ends are going to age poorly. It’s smart to bite your tongue and wait to see how it all plays out.At the same time, we know how much the draft can matter — and how quickly. The Eagles’ rookie class helped launch them to a Super Bowl championship last season, while the Commanders’ first-round pick spurred them on a Cinderella run.Not every pick is going to work out, but at…
WASHINGTON :The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday voted to advance President Donald Trump’s nominees to head NASA and to serve as commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission.Trump’s pick to head the space agency entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, CEO of payment processing company Shift4 Payments, is a close partner of Elon Musk’s SpaceX who has flown to space twice as a private astronaut on the company’s spacecraft. The panel also approved the nomination of Olivia Trusty, a Senate aide, who would give Republicans three votes on the five-member FCC.
[SINGAPORE] CapitaLand Ascott Trust’s (Clas) managers said in a business update on Monday (Apr 28) that the trust’s gross profit rose 4 per cent year on year in the first quarter of 2025. Gross profit from new properties in the quarter replaced the drop in gross profit from divestments in 2024, the managers said, driven by stronger performance from properties the trust renovated in 2024. These new properties include lyf Funan Singapore, acquired on Dec 31, 2024, as well as Japan hotels ibis Styles Tokyo Ginza and Chisun Budget Kanazawa Ekimae, both bought on Jan 31, 2025.Seventy per cent of…
The term “data fabric” is used across the tech industry, yet its definition and implementation can vary. I have seen this across vendors: in autumn last year, British Telecom (BT) talked about their data fabric at an analyst event; meanwhile, in storage, NetApp has been re-orienting their brand to intelligent infrastructure but was previously using the term. Application platform vendor Appian has a data fabric product, and database provider MongoDB has also been talking about data fabrics and similar ideas. At its core, a data fabric is a unified architecture that abstracts and integrates disparate data sources to create a…
Dear Readers and friends old and new. As the year 2023 comes to an end, I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year. I hope that you have enjoyed reading my health-related articles throughout the year, and that you have learned something new and useful from them? I also hope that you have applied some of the tips and advice that I have shared with you, and that you have seen some positive changes in your health and well-being. The festive season is a time of joy, celebration, and…
The MLB season is picking up steam.Let’s take a look at the odds for which two players will separate themselves from the rest by winning MVP at the end of the year, with odds from DraftKings Sportsbook as of April 29. American League MVP 2025Aaron Judge: -600 (bet $10 to win $11.67 total)Bobby Witt Jr.: +800 (bet $10 to win $90 total)Mike Trout: +3500 (bet $10 to win $360 total)Gunnar Henderson: +4000 (bet $10 to win $410 total)Jose Ramirez: +5000 (bet $10 to win $510 total)What to know: Last year’s winner has been this year’s favorite since before Opening Day. Aaron…
India traders at the Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd. office in Mumbai, India.Vivek Prakash | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThis report is from this week’s CNBC’s “Inside India” newsletter which brings you timely, insightful news and market commentary on the emerging powerhouse and the big businesses behind its meteoric rise. Like what you see? You can subscribe here.The big storyIndia’s stock market seems to have gotten back its mojo.While the Nifty 50 index remains more than 7% below its all-time high reached on September 26, it has rallied about 10% since bottoming out on April 7, when trade tensions between the United…