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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.

TOKYO: Toshiba has received a buyout offer from a British private equity fund and will consider the proposal, it said Wednesday (Apr 7), with reports suggesting the deal could be worth about US$20 billion. Trading of Toshiba shares was temporarily halted on Tokyo's stock exchange at the open ......

Despite being energy inefficient, hydrogen has received much interest because it fits business models built on fossil fuels, says a chemical engineering professor.

Reductions in tariffs on goods, which benefit China, are often overestimated in such calculations, whereas reduction in barriers impacting services, which favour ASEAN, are undervalued, says Deborah Elms.

ISMAILIA, Egypt: The Suez Canal chief said on Tuesday (Apr 6) that authorities are negotiating a financial settlement with the owners of a massive vessel that blocked the crucial waterway for nearly a week. Lieutenant General Osama Rabie told the Associated Press he hoped talks with Shoei Kisen ...