White House officially announces deal with Samsung to provide over $6 billion in funding for new expansion in Texas

After Lawrence Wong becomes Singapore's prime minister on 15 May, the only ASEAN leaders* to have assumed office before 2021 will be the Sultan in Brunei and Jokowi in Indonesia—and Jokowi steps down in October. Unprecedented breadth of leadership transition in Southeast Asia.

'Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will relinquish his office on 15 May 2024.

He will formally advise the President to appoint Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Mr Lawrence Wong to succeed him'
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#Singapore : Rumour mill in overdrive regarding an imminent announcement on the timeline of the handover of power from PM Lee Hsien Loong to DPM Lawrence Wong. DPM Wong expected to be sworn in as Singapore's 4th PM in May.

Wow, wild differences. At least British people can sleep easy in presuming, with America's much higher incomes and much larger homes, that their houses are at least more expensive in general. Right? Right guys?

This is a delicacy

John Jay

Such indignities suffered by the Philippines this year. Denied visits by both their religious patriarch and secular matriarch in the same year. reuters.com/world/pope-tra…

For when you're really into mood lighting but also you took a lot of interior design lessons from the Harkonnen planet

The Chinese government's portrayal of itself as an injured party in its relations with the US would probably find a lot more support internationally if it wasn't wholly contradicted with behaviour like this ft.com/content/ecd934…

humiliating. looks like shit. yet another massive W for earth, the best planet in the universe

So much interesting going on in this chart, obviously the headline takeaway is the insane rise in manufacturing ex chemical spend.

Also interesting to think about how much of the incremental spend is somewhat profit insensitive short term, given incentives/subsidies at play.

I'm not going to reveal the secrets of our magician's code, but there's something very similar to this in financial journalism, which is one of the best pieces of professional advice I ever received.

We're also hiring for an economics writer, ideally based in London. The ability to write clearly and entertainingly, and an understanding of economics is required, but no journalistic experience is necessary. economist.com/finance-and-ec…

Two BIG job openings at The Economist right now. The first is our Marjorie Deane internship. It's a six month gig in London with our finance and economics section. No previous experience required. Many great colleagues who work at the paper started here. economist.com/finance-and-ec…