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SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines (SIA) said on Monday (Apr 26) it welcomes the decision to relaunch the air travel bubble between Singapore and Hong Kong on May 26. In a statement responding to the announcement, the national carrier said the move is an "important milestone" in its recovery and helps ...

BENGALURU: The Indian government asked social media platform Twitter to take down dozens of tweets, including some by local lawmakers, that were critical of India's handling of the coronavirus outbreak, as cases of COVID-19 again hit a world record. Twitter has withheld some of the tweets after ...

HONG KONG: Chinese property developers have turned their sights to Hong Kong's border districts as mainlanders from neighbouring boomtown Shenzhen consider parts of the former British colony as a more affordable long-term housing prospect. The development plans are seen by some as a turning point ...

SHANGHAI: In China's commercial hub Shanghai, six big state banks are quietly promoting digital yuan ahead of a May 5 shopping festival, carrying out a political mandate to provide consumers with a payment alternative to Alipay and WeChat Pay. The banks are persuading merchant and retail clients ...

British lawmakers on Monday called on the government to publish all communications with pharmaceutical companies to understand if private lobbying influenced its opposition to a waiver of intellectual property rules for COVID-19 vaccines.

When Michael Jones started a side hustle shooting drone photos and videos for realtors, his clients wanted more: Images with property lines on them, to better understand where their fences should be.

Energy demand is expected to increase by as much as 50 per cent over the next 30 years, but energy companies and policymakers have widely different visions of that future, says Professor John W Ballantine.

To attract and retain talent in this post-COVID world of work, employers should seriously consider reimbursing remote workers’ expenses, says PeopleSearch Singapore’s Jaime Lim.

Although every crisis has its fair share of businesses going bust — even as it throws up new opportunities — the impact of the pandemic-induced economic downturn has been unusually severe, say business leaders and experts.

IT HAS been a game of "calling your 10 best friends". A US$3.25-trillion global market makes up the secondary loans space, but it continues to operate in a largely archaic, low-tech environment.