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Cecil Morella (Agence France-Presse) (The Jakarta Post) PREMIUM Manila   ● Tue, June 28 2022 Ferdinand Marcos Jr, whose dictator father and namesake plundered and brutalized the Philippines, has reached the end of a decades-long campaign to rehabilitate the family brand: the presidency. Marcos Jr, known by his nickname "Bongbong", will succeed Rodrigo Duterte in the top job on Thursday after his landslide victory in last month's elections. His win followed relentless whitewashing of the family's past and leveraging of alliances with rival families that control large swathes of the country. to Read Full Story SUBSCRIBE NOW Starting from IDR 55,500/month Unlimited access to our web and app content e-Post daily digital newspaper No advertisements, no interruptions Privileged access to our events and programs Subscription to our newsletters We accept Register to read 3 premium articles for free Already subscribed? login … [Read more...] about From pariah to president: Marcos Jr takes over Philippines’ top job

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Your brain is always on the hunt for something interesting. That’s a good thing in most cases. When you go to the grocery store, you can tell the hunt is underway. You’re looking for good sales or trying to decide between Thai food or chicken curry. At a bookstore, you might glance at a few covers and in a flash see a striking title or a colorful design. Next thing you know you are carrying a pile of books home. This constant search uses a part of our brain called the temporal lobe. As the name suggests, this region is what allows us to “catch and release” anything that controls attention on a temporary basis. We love this kind of temporal activity because most of us get bored easily; we’re happy when there is a constant stimulus of attention. The allure of material “things” means our brains can switch focus and keep looking for something worthy of our attention. I mention shopping because, when we go to a store, … [Read more...] about How Social Media Tricks Us Into Thinking We Are Paying Attention

- A + A KUALA LUMPUR (June 27): Costlier crude oil along with a stronger US dollar will erode Spritzer's Bhd profit margin, the bottled water producer admitted. "Costlier oil will translate into costlier PET resin, which is the main raw material used in making the [plastic] bottles. "PET resin is normally quoted in US dollar so a stronger US dollar would mean we will have to pay more for our PET resin," a company representative said in a brief email reply to theedgemarkets.com recently, when asked about the impact of surging oil prices on its manufacturing costs. According to the US-based PET Resin Association, PET — which is short for polyethylene terephthalate, the chemical name for polyester — is a clear, strong, and lightweight plastic made from crude oil and ethane extracted from natural gas that is widely used for packaging food and beverages, especially convenience-sized soft drinks, juices and water. Following Russia's incursion into Ukraine, oil prices … [Read more...] about Spritzer admits costlier crude oil, stronger US dollar will erode its profit margin

This article first appeared in The Edge Malaysia Weekly, on June 20, 2022 - June 26, 2022. - A + A THE momentum to adopt environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria and sustainability practices in the capital market has picked up significantly in the past few years. By the third quarter of 2021, assets in global sustainable funds hit a record high, according to investment research firm Morningstar. At the same time, more than 70 countries — including the biggest polluters — have set a net-zero target and over 1,200 companies have put in place science-based targets to reach net-zero emissions, according to the United Nations. In Malaysia, at least 44 out of the 54 Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) funds approved by Securities Commission Malaysia were launched in the last two years. As at December 2021, 94% of the top 50 listed companies in Malaysia had ESG strategies and 68% had emissions reduction policies, according to PwC’s research. … [Read more...] about HONOURING MALAYSIA’S BEST PERFORMERS IN ESG EXCELLENCE: The Edge to roll out Malaysia’s first ESG awards

Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi seen at the High Court on Monday, June 27, 2022 for his money-laundering trial. (Photo by Shahrin Yahya/The Edge) - A + A KUALA LUMPUR (June 27): UMNO president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi denied instructing law firm Messrs Lewis & Co, the trustee for funds belonging to Yayasan Akalbudi, to transfer more than RM59 million into a fixed deposit (FD) account. Zahid also told the High Court that the firm’s partner, B Muralidharan, told him that the fixed deposit account needed to be opened “by law” to manage the funds. However, the subsequent fund transfers happened without his knowledge, he said. “I categorically deny that I gave instructions to Messrs Lewis & Co or any lawyer or staff, including V Sothilechmy, to deposit the funds in the fixed deposit account,” Zahid said when reading his witness statement. Sothilechmy, the accountant for Lewis & Co, is the 85th prosecution witness in Zahid’s money-laundering trial, … [Read more...] about Zahid denies instructing trustee law firm to transfer RM59 mil of charity funds into FD

What makes A24 a cultural powerhouse is not that it released a film last spring in which an inter-dimensional assassin impales himself on an Auditor of the Month trophy, inexplicably shaped like a certain sex toy, although it most certainly did. It’s not that most cinephiles would immediately guess A24 as the company who put out that film, Everything Everywhere All at Once , even if its logo didn’t appear before the credits, although they probably would. No, what makes A24 a steady, sturdy phenomenon is that it started selling $60 designer candle replicas of that unlikely trophy just after the movie’s early-June digital release. advertisement advertisement Whether enough fans purchase the item—a collaboration with Brooklyn-based design studio, Joya —to justify its overhead cost is incidental. Everything Everywhere is now A24’s biggest hit ever , its $89 million box-office haul rendering the digital release a victory lap. The very existence … [Read more...] about I spent six weeks living in A24-world. Here’s what happened

A while back, we wrote about the Bigshot camera , a panoramic, 3-D capable camera kit by Columbia University professor Shree Nayar. Now, Bigshot is on the market. advertisement advertisement “We live in an age where software rules,” Nayar tells Co.Design. “That’s a good thing from my perspective. On the other hand, I’m a firm believer that we want the next generation to know how to build the stuff that software sits on top of.” Conscious that the prize of a camera itself could bribe kids into building one, Nayar carefully crafted the Bigshot to focus just as much on the educational journey as the entertaining destination. “I’ve put in things that I could use as an excuse for describing concepts,” he tells Co.Design, like a hand-cranked power generator and the dynamo cover, which can explain electro-magnetics. “I’m using the camera as a draw, as a hook, as a bait.” By trade, Nayar isn’t a designer. (The professor concentrates on the science of … [Read more...] about The Best Camera For A Child May Be One They Have To Build

For music geeks, building a synthesizer has always been a way to experiment with sound, far beyond what commercial synths will allow. But for those who have never picked up a soldering iron, it can be intimidating. Last week, open-source hardware startup littleBits unveiled its answer: SynthKit, a modular synthesizer kit that lets anybody–from hardcore hobbyists to toddlers–snap together their own miniature playable synths. advertisement advertisement The littleBits Synth Kit , a collaboration with Japanese synthesizer company Korg, comes with 12 color-coded modules that each contain a standard synthesizer component: oscillators, a sequencer, a delay knob, a speaker, even a tiny keyboard. These pieces can be snapped together in any combination, making for an open-source, DIY analog synthesizer with hundreds of thousands of possible arrangements. At last Thursday’s launch event in New York City’s East Village, these little interchangeable widgets were … [Read more...] about This Open Source DIY Synthesizer Makes Music Hacking Dead Simple

Strawbees, a simple building tool for kids, has been years in the making. It started when founder Erik Thorstensson was growing up in Sweden, and he realized how expensive traditional toys were after his mother told him to make another Transformer himself, rather than buy him brand new one. Later in life, Thorstensson traveled to India for a community service project, where the kids he worked with took to playing with the volunteers’ clothespins as if they were toy construction modules. advertisement advertisement If rudimentary clothespins could inspire children to start thinking spatially and creatively, a sleeker–but still inexpensive–solution couldn’t be far off, Thorstensson thought. To build Strawbees, Thorstensson created a flexible, plastic building unit that’s shaped like a flat lollipop. One end is designed for inserting a straw and the other end can hook onto other yellow connectors. “There is an almost infinite number of different ways of … [Read more...] about A Toy Kit For Little Architects And Engineers

Why pay $250 for a Nest Wi-Fi-connected thermostat when you can build your own? It sounds complicated–the kind of thing that might require at least a little bit of engineering experience–but it’s not. With the littleBits Cloud Module, a building block for Internet-connected gadgets announced at this week’s TED conference, that Nest-like thermostat just became a lot easier to build. advertisement advertisement “The Internet of Things” is one of those trendy, nebulous terms that many people kind of understand, but few people entirely grasp. Ayah Bdeir, founder and CEO of littleBits — a modern-day Lego set that lets anyone build electronic devices–had her first experience with the Internet of Things (physical devices that connect to the Internet and each other, like the aforementioned Nest thermostat) about a decade ago, when she encountered Internet 0 , a protocol that allows users to control physical objects remotely. “I went from being … [Read more...] about Now You Can Make Your Own Internet-Connected Gadgets, No Engineering Skills Required