INDONESIAN fintech startup BukuWarung has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Partners of DST Global, Soma Capital, Hof Capital, GMO Venture Partners, VentureSouq, 20VC and angel investors.
Under a special tourist visa scheme aimed at long-stay visitors, those going to Thailand will need to arrange for private flights and undergo a 14-day quarantine before their holiday.
SINGAPORE: For nine years, Hairul Firdaus supervised the installation of audio-visual equipment. When COVID-19 hit, the company's projects started drying up. At the height of the pandemic in June, the 36-year-old lost his job as assistant project manager. “I went back home, sat down and tried to ...
Rapid deterioration in US macroeconomic imbalances will cause the greenback to plunge in value, says Stephen S Roach.
MICE tourism may never recover completely as many conferences and meetings are taking place online and as businesses seek to reduce costs, says Associate Professor Prem Shamdasani.
The leaders of the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on Monday introduced bipartisan legislation to reform the Federal Aviation Administration's aircraft certification process in the wake of two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes.
President Donald Trump has denied an expose by The New York Times saying he effectively paid no income tax for most of the past two decades, but experts said the methods it was reported he employed to reduce his bill are commonly used by wealthy property developers.
JPMorgan Chase & Co told thousands of workers across its consumer unit that they could plan to work from home until next year, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing memos sent to the bank's staff.
OVER 1,000 investors across Asia have come before the Singapore courts to sue a Singaporean whom they allege to be the mastermind of a ponzi oil investment scheme that defrauded thousands of investors of C$175 million (S$180 million).
SINGAPORE will soon calibrate its debt moratorium schemes, with the regulator looking to extend its programmes to certain borrowers beyond Dec 31 this year, while also ensuring that those with the ability to pay should begin repayment before the moratoriums expire, The Business Times understands.
