PARIS: Paris metro and other public transport workers were to walk off the job on Friday (Sep 13) for a huge one-day strike over President Emmanuel Macron's plan to overhaul France's retirement system. Ten of the city's 16 metro lines will be shut down completely, while service on most others...
Chinese importers bought at least 10 boatloads of U.S. soybeans on Thursday, their most significant purchases since at least June, traders said, ahead of high-level talks next month aimed at ending a bilateral trade war that has lasted more than a year.
Singapore President Halimah Yacob concluded on Thursday (Sep 12) what she called a "meaningful and fruitful" five-day state visit to the Philippines, during which she met Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte in Manila.
Shares of SmileDirectClub , a teeth alignment company, tumbled 10.7per cent in their market debut on Thursday, after the company's initial public offering was priced above expectations.
MOSCOW: Russian social network Vkontakte, owned by internet group Mail.Ru, has launched a dating app to rival popular similar services such as Tinder, Vkontakte said on Thursday. It said the main feature of the service, called Lovina, would be video chats. It is available in Russia, Azerbaijan ...
Three U.S. senators on Thursday said Amazon.com Inc should stop working with delivery contractors that violate labor laws by imposing unfair conditions on drivers delivering packages for the e-commerce company.
Amazon and Morrisons have agreed to extend a partnership which already allows customers to order their shopping from the smallest of Britain's big four supermarket groups and have it delivered by the U.S. online giant.
A driver for Uber has sued the company for misclassifying its drivers as independent contractors, hours after California legislators voted to help thousands of those workers become, and enjoy the benefits of being, employees.
Google said on Thursday it agreed to pay 465 million euros in additional taxes to French authorities, boosting the total settlement to end a fiscal fraud probe in the country to nearly 1 billion.
Google agreed to pay a 500 million euro (US$548 million) fine in France to settle a fiscal fraud probe that began four years ago, the financial prosecutor's office said on Thursday.
