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3 weeks ago | 
straitstimes.com | Jeremy Au Yong
Everything I am about to say about LinkedIn will make me sound like a hater, but let me assure you I am not. (That said, I have lost count of the number of things I have been accused of hating. Being a grumpy old man can be hard. I hate it.)I still log in to Linkedin regularly and do find it useful, despite having abandoned my accounts on other social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Jeremy Au Yong
Jeremy Au YongAssociate Editor (Newsroom Strategy) The writer enjoys perpetuating the myth of Santa. It makes him feel like part of a giant global movement, united in the act of lying to children. ST ILLUSTRATION: MIEL Updated Dec 01, 2024, 05:00 AM Published Dec 01, 2024, 05:00 AM It’s December, and in my household that means it is time for the time-honoured tradition of lying to my six-year-old. OK, yes, you caught me.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Jeremy Au Yong
If the previous two US presidential elections are anything to go by, there will be a victory speech by Donald Trump sometime between 2am and 3am on election night – regardless of the result. In 2016, when it became clear that Trump was on course for a stunning victory against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he delivered his victory remarks from a ballroom at the Hilton hotel in New York at about 2.50am.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Jeremy Au Yong
Every so often, my younger colleagues like to remind me that I am an old person, inching irreversibly towards the eternal beyond. To be fair, they don’t do this outright. What they do is to look on with bewilderment when I drop a pop culture reference.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Jeremy Au Yong
Pay even a moderate amount of attention to the ongoing US presidential election campaign, and one might be tempted to think that the country’s politics has well and truly jumped the shark. In just the single month of July, we have seen the entire race seemingly overturned multiple times.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Jeremy Au Yong
In the closing moments of the US presidential debate on June 27, the men vying to become the next leader of the world’s most powerful country decided that voters needed to know which one of them was the better golfer. When asked about their age, 78-year-old Donald Trump claimed recent non-senior club championship wins as evidence that he was the stronger candidate. Instead of dismissing the relevance of golf in governing the country, Mr Biden shot back that he had a 6 handicap.
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May 11, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Jeremy Au Yong
We are now close enough to the deadline for a general election (GE) – one must be held by November 2025 – that almost every domestic political development sparks a question about the timing of the next GE. Every utterance and policy decision from key office-holders is dissected and analysed for clues that the proverbial button is about to be pressed. The leadership handover which takes place in the coming week, for instance, had set off a round of tea-leaf reading.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Jeremy Au Yong
Jeremy Au YongAssociate Editor (Newsroom Strategy) There are many possible reasons why men get more short-tempered with age. PHOTO: LIFETIME Updated Mar 24, 2024, 05:01 AM Published Mar 24, 2024, 05:00 AM I should have been happy. After all, I was in possession of the hottest ticket in town, attending a concert that will likely go down in history as some sort of national cultural moment. Many, many people would have killed to swop places with me.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Chris Kosmidis |Jeremy Au Yong |Chris Harris |Mahmoud Achira
1 INTRODUCTION A pulmonary nodule is an opacity measuring ≤3 cm in diameter which is surrounded by aerated lung on radiological imaging.1 Aspergillus nodules have previously been described in patients without overt immunocompromise and are considered to be a manifestation of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA).2 They are often diagnosed following lung biopsies or lung resections performed to investigate possible lung cancer.3-5 As compared to other subtypes of CPA, there is a paucity of...
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Feb 3, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Jeremy Au Yong
Exactly how much money to put into each tier of hongbao is not a simple process. ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE Updated 21 sec ago Published 3 min ago It’s that time of the year again, when married Chinese have to start preparing for their annual hongbao maths olympiad. It is just like any other maths olympiad, except there are more participants, it lasts 15 days, and the maths being tested is far more complex than trying to differentiate a polynomial function.
