Amazon, Apple and Facebook are among tech industry titans and organizations signing onto a court filing saying US President Donald Trump's move blocking visas for skilled workers hurts the country.
Tucked away in Sinead Boucher's sock drawer is the one-dollar coin that transformed the former journalist into New Zealand's biggest media mogul, giving her a platform to challenge Facebook and other social media giants.
The California State Controller Betty Yee has called for the board of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), the largest public U.S. investment fund, to launch an inquiry into the abrupt exit of its chief investment officer.
SINGAPORE: About 24,000 jobseekers secured either jobs or work attachments under the SGUnited Jobs and Skills Package between March and end-July, Manpower Minister Josephine Teo said on Tuesday (Aug 11). The majority of them were placed in short-term positions with a contract period of up to 12 ...
China's Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) said on Monday its quarterly revenue leaped 18 per cent, beating Wall Street estimates, as it put more music for streaming behind its paywall and grew its paid subscriber base by more than half.
SINGAPORE: “We are not returning to a pre-COVID-19 world … We must chart a new direction now,” said Trade and Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing on Tuesday (Aug 11), after Singapore announced what he described as its “worst quarterly performance on record”. Data showed that the Singapore economy ......
SINGAPORE: Total merchandise trade in Singapore declined by 15.2 per cent in the second quarter of 2020, following a slight growth of 0.5 per cent in the previous quarter. Official data by Enterprise Singapore also showed on Tuesday (Aug 11) that non-oil trade declined by 3.3 per cent, after...
SINGAPORE: Singapore has narrowed its economic forecast for 2020 to a contraction between 5 and 7 per cent, the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) said on Tuesday (Aug 11), as data showed a steep slump in the second quarter amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The earlier projection made in...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Monday said companies from China and other countries that do not comply with accounting standards will be delisted from U.S. stock exchanges as of the end of 2021.
Occidental Petroleum Corp on Monday posted its fourth straight quarterly loss as it recorded a US$6.6 billion impairment charge, largely to write down the value of its oil and gas properties following a crash in crude prices.
