SINGAPORE: The construction sector has been a “key vulnerability” during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Government will work closely with the industry to get through this difficult period, said National Development Minister Lawrence Wong on Tuesday (Jun 9). In a televised address to the nation, Mr ...
TOKYO: Japan and Britain agreed to start talks on an early trade deal, Japan's foreign ministry said on Tuesday (Jun 9), as Britain emerges from decades of outsourcing its trade policy to the European Union. Britain is embarking on negotiating free trade deals with countries around the world and ...
U.S. stock index futures dropped on Tuesday, giving back some gains after the Nasdaq notched a record closing high in the previous session, with focus now on the Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting.
LONDON: Vitol's former chief executive and chairman Ian Taylor has died at the age of 64 from cancer, according to an internal memo and four sources familiar the matter. Taylor joined Vitol in 1985 and became group President and CEO in 1995, during which time he helped build Vitol...
Honda Motor Co suspended some of its auto and motorcycle production globally as the Japanese car giant grappled with a suspected cyber attack, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
OCBC on Tuesday said it has managed to take a "complex face-to-face process" involving more than 50 pages of documents and a comprehensive financial needs analysis (FNA) for wealth customers from being completed at physical meetings, to now be settled online.
S&P Global Ratings said it has revised Japan's outlook to stable on increased uncertainty around debt stabilization.
A plunge in household spending and investment pulled down euro zone gross domestic product in the first quarter as the COVID-19 pandemic struck, but the fall was slightly smaller than first estimated, the European Union's statistics office said.
A U.S. Senate report released Tuesday says the U.S. government failed to properly oversee Chinese-owned telecommunications companies for nearly two decades.
PARIS: France launched what it said was a €15 billion (US$17 billion) rescue plan for its aerospace industry on Tuesday (Jun 9), warning 100,000 jobs were directly at stake due to the COVID-19 crisis travel slump. The package, which includes some already announced measures, includes an investment ...
