Australian billionaire James Packer said on Wednesday he "forgot" his casino firm Crown Resorts Ltd was banned from dealing with associates of Hong Kong's Stanley Ho when he orchestrated a part-buyout by a firm controlled by Ho's son.
Antoine Frerot, the chairman and chief executive of French utility Veolia , told Le Figaro newspaper in an interview published on Wednesday that a deal with its bid target Suez was still possible.
Britain's NatWest Group has kicked off a campaign encouraging customers to dump the discredited Libor lending rate, as the coronavirus pandemic slows the pace at which borrowers are shifting to alternatives.
Frederic Oudea promised Societe Generale investors "growth with lower risk" after he became chief executive in 2008, the year a rogue trader lost billions in equity derivatives and brought the French bank close to collapse.
SINGAPORE: About 33,100 job seekers have been placed into jobs, traineeships and training opportunities under the SGUnited Jobs and Skills Package as of end-August, said the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) on Wednesday (Oct 7). This is an increase of 9,100 from the 24,000 job seekers placed as of end ......
TOKYO: The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) has appointed four external board members to a committee to investigate last week's trading outage as its system developer, Fujitsu, continues to examine the cause of the incident. A hardware glitch paralysed trading in the world's third-largest equity market ...
Google, Oracle meet in copyright clash at Supreme Court
Overall unemployment rate climbed to 3.4% in August, and it “remains to be seen” if it will rise more quickly in the coming months, said the Manpower Ministry.
Japan's Sharp Corp said on Wednesday it has signed a licensing agreement with Daimler as it settled a patent infringement lawsuit against the German automaker over in-vehicle mobile communications technology.
MANILA: Online misinformation is leaching out from cheap mobile phones and free Facebook plans used by millions in the Philippines, convincing many to reject vaccinations for polio and other deadly diseases. Childhood immunisation rates have plummeted in the country - from 87 per cent in 2014 to ...
