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SINGAPORE: Foreign worker levies will be waived for all S Pass and work permit holders, including maids, during their stay-home notice periods from January to September, the Manpower Ministry (MOM) said on Thursday (Apr 1). "This is to help employers manage the increased costs associated with the ...

Crude prices rose on Thursday, recouping some of the previous session's losses on expectations that a meeting of OPEC and its allies later on Thursday would yield output constraint in the face of resurgent COVID-19 infections in some regions.

Microsoft has won a Pentagon contract for augmented reality headgear for soldiers worth US$21.88 billion over the next decade, the company and the United States military announced on Wednesday (Mar 31).

SINGAPORE: Private home prices in Singapore rose by 2.9 per cent in the first quarter of 2021, according to official flash estimates released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) on Thursday (Apr 1). This followed a 2.1 per cent increase in the previous quarter, and a 2.2 per cent...

The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) said on Wednesday South Korean battery company SK Innovation Co Ltd did not violate rival LG Energy Solution's battery-related patents.

PITTSBURGH :President Joe Biden on Wednesday called for a sweeping use of government power to reshape the world's largest economy and counter China's rise in a US$2 trillion-plus proposal that was met with swift Republican resistance.

The Federal Aviation Administration said on Wednesday it had approved the design for the Boeing 737-8200, part of the Boeing 737 MAX series.

VANCOUVER: Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou’s arrest was valid, but her ongoing detainment is illegal, defense lawyers told a Canadian court on Wednesday, in a slight deviation from China’s official stance on the case. Meng, 49, was arrested in December 2018 at Vancouver ...

Asian stocks were set to edge higher early on Thursday after big tech rallied on Wall Street and as President Joe Biden announced a multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure investment plan.

Boeing urged the United States on Wednesday to keep disputes over human rights and other topics separate from trade relations with Beijing, and warned that European rival Airbus would gain if the US planemaker were locked out of China.