DESPITE Covid-19 showing no signs of abating in the UK - with the country experiencing a second wave of infections and several cities plunging back into lockdowns - a Singapore-based private equity firm has set its sights on the student accommodation sector there.
England and Wales launch a COVID-19 smartphone app on Thursday, allowing users to trace contacts, check the local level of risk and record visits to venues such as pubs, four months after the technology was promised to the public.
RECENTLY delisted food and beverage (F&B) player BreadTalk Group is forming a joint venture (JV) with Singapore-based technology services group Adera AI.
Asian stocks opened lower on Thursday, tracking a sharply lower Wall Street session amid fresh concerns that the global economic recovery is running out of steam.
The changes follow disappointing efforts to get Americans back into movie theatres after the coronavirus pandemic shuttered cinemas worldwide in March.
NEW YORK: Major automakers Tesla, Volvo, Ford and Mercedes Benz have sued the US government over tariffs on Chinese goods, demanding customs duties paid on imports be returned, with interest. The lawsuits were filed over the past days in the New York-based Court of International Trade and concern ......
The application was submitted to Beijing's municipal commerce bureau and the company is waiting for a decision, it said in a statement on its Toutiao account.
WASHINGTON: The coronavirus crisis is lasting longer than expected and it will take some countries years to return to growth, the number two official at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Wednesday (Sep 23). The fund has provided about US$90 billion in total financing to 79 countries ......
Amid questions concerning how much more Singapore Airlines may have to lay off staff and cut costs, NUS Business School Associate Professor Nitin Pangarkar argues it’s in Singapore’s national interest to retain a national carrier.
US prosecutors charged a former US employee of a Swiss energy trading firm with bribery and a Florida company pleaded guilty to bribery as a probe into corruption in energy trading widened in the United States.
