SINGAPORE: The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) will start accepting applications to pilot large-scale meetings of up to 250 people from Oct 1, as part of plans to gradually resume economic activities in the country. Organisers of such Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions (MICE) events ...
China's exports in August rose at a faster-than-expected pace, increasing by 9.5per cent from a year earlier, though imports dropped 2.1per cent, customs data showed on Monday.
Julian Assange resumes his battle in a London court on Monday to avoid extradition to the United States to face criminal charges over the activities of his WikiLeaks website, after months of delay due to the coronavirus lockdown.
SINGAPORE: Private-sector economists are expecting the Singapore economy to contract 6 per cent this year, a slight downgrade from their earlier forecast of a 5.8 per cent decline following a worse-than-expected slump in the second quarter. This was according to the latest quarterly survey from ...
China's exports in August rose at a faster-than-expected pace, increasing by 9.5per cent from a year earlier, though imports dropped 2.1per cent, customs data showed on Monday.
SYDNEY: Australia expects to receive its first batches of a potential COVID-19 vaccine in January, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday (Sep 7), as the number of new daily infections in the country's virus hotspot fell to a 10-week low. Morrison said his government has struck a deal...
Britain has set a deadline of Oct 15 to strike a free-trade deal with the European Union, and if none is agreed both sides should "accept that and move on", UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will say on Monday.
SoftBank Group Corp shares fell 5per cent in early trading on Monday as the conglomerate's big bets on equity derivatives tied to listed technology companies made investors uncomfortable.
Samsung Electronics said on Monday it had won a US$6.64 billion order to provide wireless communication solutions to Verizon in the United States, a major win for the South Korean firm in the next-generation 5G network market.
The dollar steadied in holiday-thinned trade on Monday after U.S. jobs data showed job growth slowed further in August, while traders shifted their focus to the European Central Bank's meeting on Thursday.
