Author: Isla

As you might know, IHH Healthcare Berhad (KLSE:IHH) last week released its latest quarterly, and things did not turn out so great for shareholders. IHH Healthcare Berhad missed analyst forecasts, with revenues of RM6.6b and statutory earnings per share (EPS) of RM0.06, falling short by 6.5% and 8.6% respectively. This is an important time for investors, as they can track a company’s performance in its report, look at what experts are forecasting for next year, and see if there has been any change to expectations for the business. So we gathered the latest post-earnings forecasts to see what estimates suggest…

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When a cha chaan teng in Busan, South Korea, made it into this year’s Michelin Guide, it was a sign of how far the Hong Kong tea restaurants have come since the 1950s and 60s. Both at home and abroad, cha chaan teng are hotter than boiling-hot Ceylon tea poured through a milk-tea cotton “stocking”. In Hong Kong, long queues form outside Milk Cafe branches, while social-media buzz surrounds the ramshackle Lan Fong Yuen on Gage Street, Central. Overseas, these cafes have spread to cities such as Seattle and New York.A popular working-class mealtime fixture since the mid-20th century, cha…

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Merve Aydogan30 May 2026•Update: 30 May 2026The United Arab Emirates secretly carried out dozens of airstrikes against Iran during the initial days of its war with the US and Israel and continued up to the day after a ceasefire was declared in April, according to a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report published Friday.The report, citing people familiar with the matter, said the operations were coordinated with the US and Israel, both of which provided intelligence support.Targets reportedly included strategic islands in the Strait of Hormuz, the port city of Bandar Abbas and major Iranian energy infrastructure, including a petrochemical complex…

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Despite deep defense and economic ties, religion and identity have become major fault lines in the relationship between Washington and New Delhi. The deterioration of US-India relations under the second Trump administration is often viewed through the lenses of friction over trade, the shifting US positions on China and Pakistan, or the deprioritization of the Indo-Pacific in American national security strategy. But an invisible strain lies in the growing cultural tensions shaping political discourse in both countries. The fault lines between the United States and India are extending beyond traditional instruments of statecraft into issues of religion and identity. On…

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If students are learning Chinese in public schools, they could be using a curriculum shaped by the Chinese Communist Party. In 2004, Beijing began to establish Confucius Institutes on American university campuses, which in turn partnered with K-12 public schools to establish roughly 500 Confucius Classrooms. A backlash on Capitol Hill led to the closure of nearly all the Confucius Institutes, leading most to assume that the problem had been solved.But as the National Association of Scholars documented in a 2022 report, some of the institutes survived by changing their names or transferring their operations to third-party organizations with innocuous names. This is preserving…

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Life I was recently reminiscing with my daughters about great times we had shared as a family. More often than not, it was our trips, not our everyday lives, that were seared into their memories. Horseback riding in Canada, a safari in Tanzania, swimming with turtles in the Maldives. And as we talked, I found myself wondering why these moments and not the day-to-day interludes that made up the fabric of our lives together. The answer, it turns out, is written into the very architecture of how our brains work. We are wired for newness. Neverbefore seen environments, experiences, and…

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Radio broadcasting group African Media Entertainment (AME) has reported double-digit growth in earnings, despite operating in a tough economic environment for traditional media players. This comes as several local media houses have announced retrenchments to cope with the loss of advertising revenue and troubles replacing print circulation revenue, particularly for legacy businesses, in recent years.South Africa’s broadcasters have had mixed fortunes. Entertainment group eMedia — which has interests in both television and radio businesses that include eNCA, OpenView and Yfm — recently reported that television advertising in South Africa was down 10% over the past year. Pay-TV business MultiChoice became…

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Merve Aydogan30 May 2026•Update: 30 May 2026Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday that Canada and China are deepening ties following high-level talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.”Canada and China are building a more stable and constructive partnership,” Carney wrote on the US social media platform X.He said the talks built on progress during his visit to China earlier this year.”Building on the progress made during my visit to China earlier this year, Minister Wang Yi and I focused on creating new opportunities and greater prosperity on both sides of the Pacific,” he added.Wang arrived Thursday in Canada for…

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.Research conducted by Australia’s tax authorities revealed that the first communication a new taxpayer receives affects their long-run compliance behaviour. photo: file HONG KONG: Hong Kong is considering waiving tax on fund managers’ performance bonuses in order to woo investment talent, say market participants and sources familiar with the plans. The reforms would make Hong Kong the first major financial centre in Asia to introduce tax breaks for individuals on performance bonuses, called “carried interest”, and could draw top wealth managers and star investors to set up in the city. “The industry has a lot of excitement over this,” said…

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