Salary Story: I Cried While Asking For A Raise

Salary Story: I Cried While Asking For A Raise

In our series Salary Stories, women with long-term career experience open up about the most intimate details of their jobs: compensation. It’s an honest look at how real people navigate the complicated world of negotiating, raises, promotions and job loss, with the hope it will give young people more insight into how to advocate for themselves…

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Inside World, the first-ever human verification brand

Inside World, the first-ever human verification brand

Back in June, Tools for Humanity—a startup cofounded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman—launched its first U.S. brand campaign for World, an identity and financial network that includes a cryptocurrency called Worldcoin and an unprecedented piece of hardware: the Orb. The volleyball-size spherical device uses a retina scan to authenticate users as human, and then provides…

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Singapore shares boosted by retail sales growth; STI up 0.3%

Singapore shares boosted by retail sales growth; STI up 0.3%

[SINGAPORE] The Straits Times Index (STI) settled higher on Tuesday (Aug 5) for the second consecutive session, supported by stronger-than-expected retail sales figures for June. Retail sales rose 2.3 per cent year on year that month, indicated data released by the Department of Statistics. The growth was broad-based across industries and exceeded the median estimate…

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How Do You Destroy a Country’s Reputation? Just Ask Benjamin Netanyahu

How Do You Destroy a Country’s Reputation? Just Ask Benjamin Netanyahu

The prevailing conventional wisdom is that Israel is internationally isolated, that there’s growing disdain over its prosecution of the war in and the ruination of Gaza, which has inevitably led to a major humanitarian catastrophe. This is “a diplomatic tsunami,” as the Israeli media is melodramatically portraying it—as if this is a force of nature,…

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King Princess’s Homecoming

King Princess’s Homecoming

After the Civil War, the German-born Jewish businessman Isidor Straus moved with his family to New York City. Straus was enterprising and handsome, with small round spectacles, an angular nose, and a coarse, peppery beard. He started off as a crockery vender; by the turn of the twentieth century, he had made millions as a…

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Hope For Flowers Resort 2026 Collection

Hope For Flowers Resort 2026 Collection

“Everything is meant to have more than one life,” Tracy Reese said over Zoom. This has long been her approach to design, and it’s evident in a resort collection marked by Reese’s signature A-line dresses and frilled tops, with a smattering beaded separates. “It’s not just for going away, it’s not just for going out,”…

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Hong Kong asks insurers to return investing roles from Singapore

Hong Kong asks insurers to return investing roles from Singapore

[HONG KONG] Life insurers have become the latest target in Hong Kong’s efforts to compete with Singapore in retaining talent and capital. Over the past year, Hong Kong’s insurance regulator has been steering some of the financial hub’s biggest life insurers to move investment decision-making functions back to the city following their relocation to Singapore,…

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