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U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Wisconsin on Tuesday to press his case for a US$1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill in the political battleground state that helped secure his victory in last year's presidential election.

Wearing blue hard hats, white hazmat suits and respirator masks, workers carted away bags of debris on a recent morning from a sprawling and now-defunct oil refinery once operated by Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES).

SINGAPORE: After an unprecedented year in which Singapore experienced its worst recession since independence, the global battle against COVID-19 remains far from over. Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat on Tuesday (Feb 16) announced that Budget 2021 will shift “from containment to restructuring” ...

SINGAPORE: Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat on Tuesday (Feb 16) laid out Singapore’s path of recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in a Budget that will again draw on the nation’s past reserves. Mr Heng said that as Singapore’s economy reopens, the focus of Budget 2021 will shift “from...

THE Singapore government plans to issue new bonds under a proposed Significant Infrastructure Government Loan Act (SINGA).

SINGAPORE: There has been no indication that discussions in online forums or social media chat groups have led to any “significant increase” in the trading of securities listed in Singapore, said Mr Ong Ye Kung in Parliament on Tuesday (Feb 16). Mr Ong, who is Singapore's Transport Minister and...

Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok was hit with multiple complaints from EU consumer groups on Tuesday for allegedly violating the bloc's consumer laws and for failing to protect children from hidden advertising and inappropriate content.

The government will issue green bonds on select public infrastructure projects, with up to S$19 billion in public sector green projects identified as a starting point.

Amazon.com Inc will start making its TV streaming device in India this year via a unit of Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn, the U.S. online retail giant said on Tuesday.

Future Group's creditors are exploring options to recover more than US$2.5 billion in loans, amid worries the Indian retailer's planned sale of assets to Reliance Industries could fail, four bankers with knowledge of the matter said.