SINGAPORE: Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) rates will go down by S$1 (US$0.77) at five expressway locations in the morning during the upcoming June school holidays, the Land Transport Authority said on Thursday (May 22). Among the ERP gantries that will see lower rates are the ones on the Ayer Rajah Expressway in…
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COLOMBO :Sri Lanka’s central bank cut the policy rate by 25 basis points in a surprise move on Thursday, aiming to foster stronger economic growth after a lingering financial crisis and buffer any fallout from potential U.S. tariffs. The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) changed the overnight policy rate to 7.75 per cent, it said in a statement, in contrast with a Reuters poll of 12 analysts and economists who had unanimously expected the…
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Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) reported a 9 per cent rise in full-year underlying net profit on Thursday (May 22), boosted by strong performances from unit Optus and regional associates Airtel and AIS, while announcing a new S$2 billion (US$1.55 billion) share buyback over the next three years. Singtel, Southeast Asia’s largest telecom…
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SYDNEY: Torrential rain continued to lash eastern Australia on Thursday (May 22), swelling already engorged rivers, engulfing roads and leaving almost 50,000 people stranded. Police found the body of a 63-year-old man inside a flooded home in the rural hamlet of Moto, about 400km northeast of Sydney. Others clambered onto…
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SEATTLE :Microsoft said it will add an artificial intelligence coding agent from Google-backed startup Anthropic to its GitHub service.Coding agents can carry out software development tasks, such as fixing bugs, on a human developer’s behalf. Microsoft on Monday introduced its own coding agent to GitHub, a Microsoft-owned service that many…
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This can also be said of her own ethos, which embodies the tenacity and rigour of someone who has had to fight hard to forge her own path. Indeed, Haag did not start out in the creative world. Her past life includes being a flight attendant on a private jet,…
