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ARENA backs sustainable aviation fuel startup with $32 million

ARENA has given $12.5 million for the initial phase, for engineering and development work to build an integrated supply chain, with a further $19.5 million for front-end engineering design once HAMR has secured co-funding.  It’s the first investment by the government’s...

The company behind Singha beer removed one of its heirs from every executive role days after an abuse allegation went public — a reckoning...

On May 19, Boonrawd Brewery — the family-owned company behind Singha, the beer brand nearly synonymous with Thailand — announced that it had removed Sunit Scott from all his positions in the company and its affiliated businesses. The statement...

Singapore’s millionaire density hit 1 in 6 households — and the mental health data is telling a very different story about what that wealth...

One in six households in Singapore now hold at least a million US dollars in investable assets, the highest millionaire density of any city in Asia. The same city ranks among the top three in the region for reported...

Sniffing chocolate for ‘leg day’ at the gym is the latest craze. Here’s the reality

No eating, no calories, just smelling. The journal claimed: Sniffing chocolate could make your leg day workout easier, even on an empty stomach. Headlines followed, including: Sniff chocolate, do more reps without trying harder! This came with the qualifier: We’re not even kidding. It’s a...

What I learnt from the 30-year overnight success of Up founder Dom Pym

We wrapped up almost 90 minutes later, and I immediately knew my decision to start a podcast was a good one. Even if the last thing this content-saturated world apparently needs is another content creator.  I interviewed Dom because I...

People who reply to trivial texts within seconds but go quiet for days when a message actually matters have often built two separate systems:...

The strange thing is not that some people reply quickly. Most of us do, at least when the message is easy. The strange thing is the split. A trivial text arrives and the answer comes back almost immediately: yes, fine,...

Jane Bolsters Software Portfolio with Acquisition of Local Startup Ginger Desk

With a keen eye for gaps in the market, natural health expert Dr. Julie Durnan leveraged her 15 years of industry experience to found Ginger Desk after observing how practitioners grappled with admin tasks. Durnan envisioned a service that could shoulder these...

A Major Battery Energy Storage Project is Coming to Vancouver Island

British Columbia is planning to build a sizeable battery energy storage facility. BC Hydro revealed this week that the new project, to be situated adjacent to the Vancouver Island Terminal Substation near Duncan, will deliver at least 100 megawatts of...

Kelowna’s Nordic AutoFeed Brings Automation to the Barn

At most horse barns, feeding happens on a schedule designed around people. A Kelowna company has developed an automated alternative intended to prioritize horses’ natural grazing patterns and physiological needs. As a part of a product diversification program, led by...

The quiet reason some adults keep a drawer of pens, notepads, and unopened stationery they never use may have less to do with clutter...

A drawer of unused stationery can behave less like household clutter and more like a fossil bed. Each layer records a version of a person who once stood in a bookshop aisle and believed, quite genuinely, that the leather-bound...
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I’m hooked on Peak Design’s new City bags

Integrated BagLev hooks keep Peak Design’s City Line crossbody bag and backpack off the dirty ground. | Photo by...
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