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Luxury Swiss watchmakers, usually not big fans of online retailing, are launching a new all-digital Watches & Wonders event on Wednesday to display their latest products, hoping to revive sales hit by the coronavirus crisis.

Cambodia started on Wednesday to vaccinate workers in its textile industry, concentrating on the US$7 billion backbone of its economy to help jump-start a post-pandemic recovery.

TOKYO: Men in Black rides and Jumanji water slides are some of the star attractions of a theme park being jointly built in Thailand by Sony as the tech giant seeks to broaden its entertainment offerings. The venue near Pattaya - a tourist hotspot in non-pandemic times - will open from...

SOHO Advisors, a Singapore-based fintech investment bank, is launching a virtual event to connect US-listed special purpose acquisition companies' (SPACs) sponsors with target companies in the Asia-Pacific (APAC).

SINGAPORE: Singapore's overall unemployment rate dipped to 3 per cent in February from 3.2 per cent in January, according to the Ministry of Manpower's (MOM) monthly unemployment situation report released on Wednesday (Apr 7). This marks the fourth consecutive month of decline in the ...

Bitcoin has been on a rollercoaster ride over the past few months. What do you need to know if you’re thinking of investing in the cryptocurrency? And, does what goes up inevitably come down? Money Mind reports.

Semiconductor companies may not be as headline-grabbing as their big tech counterparts such as Apple, Google and Facebook. But, as Money Mind finds out, chips drive some long-term trends in the investment world.

SINGAPORE: Three new tourist attractions will open in Singapore from later this year, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) announced at an annual industry conference on Wednesday (Apr 7). One of them is the Museum of Ice Cream, a United States-based attraction known for its Instagrammable rainbow ...

SEOUL: South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics flagged a 44.19 per cent rise in first quarter operating profit on Wednesday (Apr 7), largely driven by robust sales of smartphones and the launch of its flagship Galaxy S21 series. The company said in an earnings estimate that it expected ......

DIGITAL securities platform iSTOX has, for the first time, tokenised a private real estate investment trust (Reit) from property giant Mapletree Investments, reducing the investment ticket into the fund for 50 accredited investors.