SINGAPORE: Facebook, Twitter and Google on Thursday (May 9) said they are committed to working with the Singapore Government to manage the spread of misinformation. Their statements come a day after Parliament passed a Bill designed to tackle deliberate online falsehoods. The Protection from ...
China rejected US accusations of backtracking in trade talks and warned it would not "capitulate to any pressure" as the two sides head into make-or-break negotiations on Thursday (May 9).
LOS ANGELES: Disney disclosed a US$353 million impairment charge for its investment in Vice Media - another sign that the youth-culture company has lost ground in the past year. The Mouse House's write-off, included as part of its robust earnings announcement for the March quarter, comes after ...
SINGAPORE: The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced on Thursday (May 9) that it has issued prohibition orders against three individuals for dishonest conduct. Jeremy Lee Seow Poh and Ong Eng Keong, both former representatives of Jefferies Singapore (JSL), were handed four- and two-year ...
U.S. asset manager BlackRock has pulled out of a proposed rescue of Italian bank Carige, raising the prospect that the government could be drawn into another costly state bailout.
SINGAPORE’s life insurance industry saw a 1 per cent growth in weighted new business premiums to S$937.2 million for the first quarter of 2019, the Life Insurance Association Singapore (LIA) said on Thursday.
Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group Corp announced a stock split while keeping the per-share dividend unchanged for the year, effectively doubling its shareholder payout, as it also reported a better-than-expected annual profit.
LONDON: In Spain, activists were convicted for social media posts that violated an expanded anti-terrorism law. The Twitter accounts of German citizens were blocked because of rules enacted last year that prohibit hate speech. And a Dutch court determined Google must remove search results about a ...
LONDON: The Iran nuclear deal requires that its partners take action to boost the country's economy, but European companies remain fearful of exposing themselves to US sanctions, experts told AFP. Iran's Supreme National Security Council on Wednesday (May 8) sent a letter to the deal's other ...
SIBIU, Romania: EU leaders meeting in a mountainous city in Romania on Thursday (May 9) will discuss the future of Europe, but the fate of the euro will be mostly ignored. Launching the single currency is probably the EU's most ambitious achievement yet, two decades later, it is little-loved...
