ISSUE No. 023 · Personal Edition · Est. 2026
Sunday, October 25, 2026
✈ 18 days until Jakarta


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From Papua's food estate to ancient cave art, fires are spreading smoke and pulling Singapore into a widening haze probe.
Smoke is the story of the weekend in Indonesia. Environmental groups say there were 807 high-confidence fire hot spots in the Papua food estate, a national strategic project, and that the blazes are worsening haze pollution. Singapore, meanwhile, has issued notices over the past week to 10 foreign-based companies, insisting they deploy firefighting teams and stop burning or starting new fires.
The reach of the fires is broad. Near the Maros-Pangkep cave, home to the world's oldest cave paintings, firefighters worked to put out blazes as smoke drifted over the karst landscape. Singapore has now widened its probe to local firms linked to the fires, which shows how a problem inside Indonesia is turning into a regional dispute, and a cultural worry too.


A quiet day in the fashion business: Retail Dive and Glossy had nothing today, and WWD's items were all celebrity footwear.


Kim Kardashian's bespoke Erdem gown and Kris Jenner's Chanel leopard print found common ground at the All's Fair reunion party.
Kim Kardashian and her mother Kris Jenner went all-out in Rome on Friday night for the All's Fair reunion party at a hotel in the city. Kardashian wore a bespoke Erdem gown, while Jenner chose a Chanel leopard-print look, and the two subtly coordinated through crystal details.
The gown has kept turning heads. Harper's Bazaar describes it as a sheer and shimmering Erdem dress, finished with crystal embellishments and bedazzled fringe, and counts it as another chapter in Kardashian's birthday dressing. It is a gentle reminder that a mother and daughter needn't match head to toe: a shared sparkle was enough to tie the two looks together.



A Phase 3 trial of a vaccine tailored to each patient's tumor found over 40 percent lower risk of recurrence.
A personalized mRNA vaccine has reduced the risk of melanoma recurrence by more than 40 percent, according to results from a Phase 3 trial. The vaccine is tailored to each patient's own tumor, which makes it a very different thing from a one-size-fits-all shot.
Phase 3 is the late stage of testing, so these numbers carry real weight. WIRED calls the results yet another example of the promise of mRNA vaccines in treating cancer. The idea of building a vaccine around the specific tumor of an individual patient is moving from hopeful concept to something with solid trial evidence behind it.













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