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HONG KONG: A Hong Kong official on Friday (Apr 9) defended plans to curb public access to company searches, a move transparency and media advocates have warned will hamper the exposure of shady corporate dealings. The semi-autonomous financial hub currently maintains a paywalled Companies Registry ...

BEIJING: The Biden administration has added seven Chinese supercomputer research labs and manufacturers to a US export blacklist in a spreading conflict with Beijing over technology and security. The measure announced on Thursday (Apr 8) is the latest sign President Joe Biden is sticking to the ...

SINGAPORE: The Government aims to recover the full amount of about S$370 million wrongly paid to companies in October last year as part of the Jobs Support Scheme (JSS). "We will do all we can to recover the excess disbursements while ensuring that we minimise inconvenience to firms throughout...

BEIJING: Factory prices in China climbed further in March, growing at the fastest pace in more than two years, official data showed on Friday (Apr 9), backed by a rise in commodity prices and the country's economic recovery from Covid-19. The producer price index (PPI), which measures the cost...

UOB has appointed Eric Lim as its first chief sustainability officer (CSO) to lead a dedicated corporate sustainability office focused on achieving the bank's green goals.

As vaccines are rolled out and economies open up, can employees in Singapore and the region look forward to higher salaries? Money Mind takes a closer look.

SAN FRANCISCO: Epic Games and Apple duelled on Thursday (Apr 8) in legal filings ahead of a trial over whether to break the iPhone maker's tight grip on the App Store. Epic, the maker of the massively popular Fortnite game, accused Apple of trapping people in its mobile device world and...

Facebook's platforms including WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram were down for thousands of users on Thursday (Apr 8), according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

When your personal data is leaked, chances are you don’t even get an alert but this is exactly why users need to know how to protect themselves, says a computing professor.

For a very long time, Forrest Li has been somewhat of a mysterious figure unless you’re a gaming enthusiast or in the investing and start-up community. But that is now changing, says David Kuo.