The European Union adopted a sanctions framework for Nicaragua on Monday over human rights abuses and repression in the Central American country under leftist President Daniel Ortega.
Liberty Global has offered a 500 million Swiss franc (US$501.45 million) sweetener to rescue the sale of its Swiss cable and TV business to Sunrise Communications but a key Sunrise shareholder said it remained opposed to the deal.
Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency faces a pivotal meeting of backers on Monday, days after the would-be digital coin project suffered a severe blow as major payment firms quit.
SINGAPORE: At its latest semi-annual review on Monday (Oct 14), the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) made a slight reduction to the slope of its monetary policy band in a widely expected easing move. This is the first time the central bank has eased monetary policy since April 2016,...
China's pig herd in September was 41.1per cent smaller than it was a year earlier, the agriculture ministry said on Monday, as a year-long African swine fever epidemic continued to slash the world's largest herd.
A new German security rulebook will not exclude Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies from supplying gear for the country's 5G mobile networks, a senior government source said on Monday.
The World Trade Organization (WTO) formally authorized the United States on Monday to impose tariffs on up to US$7.5 billion of imports of EU goods after a decision earlier this month by a WTO arbitrator over subsidies to planemaker Airbus .
SINGAPORE: Bike-sharing start-up Moov Technology has been granted in-principle approval for a full licence to operate a fleet of up to 10,000 bicycles, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced on Monday (Oct 14). The company previously held a sandbox licence which allowed it to operate up to ...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) formally authorized the United States on Monday to impose tariffs on up to US$7.5 billion of imports of EU goods after a decision earlier this month by a WTO arbitrator over subsidies to planemaker Airbus .
China is still a long way from forking out US$50 billion for farm goods from the United States, agriculture industry analysts said on Monday, cautioning that getting there is contingent on removing substantial technical and political hurdles.
