But price points are only part of the novelty at Ward Village. The master plan aims to reshape the Honolulu skyline with around 20 new towers, a revitalised marina and waterfront, bike and pedestrian paths, public plazas and vibrant street-level retail. “Hawaii obviously has a lot of great things to offer,” says Todd Apo, vice-president of community development at Howard Hughes. “But we’ve never had an urban core.” Hawaii’s climate, beach resorts and golf courses have long made it a popular holiday getaway.

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At an international conference at NUS in September, Education Minister Ong Ye Kung called for universities to move beyond current research-based rankings to consider “the varied and profound roles of universities today” and their “diverse social and economic missions and objectives”. This was also the unanimous recommendation of Singapore’s International Academic Advisory Panel (IAAP) of global university leaders and corporate CEOs after their June meeting. WHAT’S HAPPENING? Yet NUS is instead ratcheting up its emphasis on global research rankings when it comes to faculty hiring and promotion, with its signature new President’s Young Professors (PYP) programme offering “outstanding young researchers and scholars with a strong research profile and trajectory” extremely generous pay packages for tenure-track assistant professorships.

Singaporean businessman Philip Chan Man Ping has been designated as a politically significant person under the Foreign Interference Countermeasures Act, the city state’s Ministry of Home Affairs said. In a statement on Monday, the ministry confirmed the 59-year-old’s designation, adding that the Registrar of Foreign and Political Disclosures had “considered the representations Chan had submitted in response to the notice of intended designation” previously issued to him on February 2.

Since making their debut in 2016, nine-member Twice have become one of the biggest-selling girl groups in K-pop. Hugely popular in Japan, Twice have also notched up various records for YouTube views and Spotify streams and, in the words of their management, “will touch people's hearts twice: once through the ears and once again through the eyes”. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tK%2FMqWWcp51kwbC8yJyqaKynnrCm