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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Wednesday he wanted to compile a basic policy on a new digital agency by the end of this year and submit necessary bills to next year's ordinary session of parliament.

U.S. oil giant Chevron Corp has asked employees globally to delete Tencent Holdings Ltd's WeChat from their work phones, following the Trump administration's executive order to ban the social media app, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday.

SINGAPORE consumers are shifting towards online banking and online shopping amid the coronavirus pandemic, while also pivoting to better money management and mindful spending, a survey by Standard Chartered (StanChart) has found.

Investors in China are betting on a bumpy ride until the end of the U.S. presidential election and seeking to protect their assets from a long chill in Sino-U.S. ties.

The CEO of Australian casino giant Crown Resorts Ltd said on Wednesday the company's holiday package clients posed a higher risk of money laundering breaches than other gamblers, and acknowledged it could do more to prevent illegal payments.

SINGAPORE: Singapore's core inflation contracted for the seventh consecutive month in August, with authorities expecting economic challenges and a weak labour market to continue to dampen consumer demand. Core inflation, a key policy consideration for Singapore's central bank, fell -0.3 per cent ...

Faced with the costs of competing in a world of electronic and algorithmic trading, many banks are outsourcing parts of their foreign exchange businesses, a trend that may cement big lenders' dominance of global currency trading.

Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies said on Wednesday its supply chain was under attack from the United States and called on Washington to reconsider its trade restrictions which were hurting suppliers globally.

Citigroup Inc has closed its market making business in retail options that serves retail broker-dealers, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing three people with knowledge of the decision.

SINGAPORE: The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and the Singapore Maritime Institute (SMI) have launched a call for proposals on the electrification of harbourcraft in a bid to reduce carbon emissions. A total of S$9 million from the Maritime GreenFuture Fund will be set aside to co ...