More than 1,000 Malaysians braved the hot sun in Melaka after a semiconductor factory announced it was looking to fill up to 500 vacancies with a starting salary of RM3,500 (S$1,100), causing a nearly ...

[NEW YORK] Larry Fink is embracing a quieter, continual cycle of rightsizing, as the world’s largest asset manager embarks on its latest round of job cuts. BlackRock is eliminating just under 1 per ...

SINGAPORE: An ongoing restructuring in professional and knowledge-intensive sectors drove a notable shift in layoffs among degree holders in the first quarter of 2026, with the incidence of ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Microsoft is reportedly cutting hundreds of jobs within its Azure cloud business in China, marking at least the third round of downsizing the company has ...

Microsoft is laying off hundreds of employees in its Azure cloud division in China, marking the latest step in the company's ongoing restructuring efforts as it navigates increasingly complex ...

The cloud was supposed to make geography irrelevant. Microsoft’s latest round of job cuts in China shows how quickly that promise is coming apart. Microsoft is laying off hundreds of staff at its ...

A surprising gut-heart connection may help explain why sleep apnea increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. In mice, disabling a bile acid receptor called FXR sharply reduced plaque buildup, ...

Researchers have identified a new Alzheimer’s target and created an experimental compound that blocks a damaging process inside brain cells. In mice, the treatment slowed nerve cell loss, reduced ...

Bond traders went into the May 2026 jobs report expecting weakness. They got the opposite. Nonfarm payrolls surged by 172,000, roughly double the 80,000 to 85,000 consensus estimate, and the resulting ...