Markets

SINGAPORE: Isetan Singapore will not renew the lease for its "loss-making" store at Westgate mall, the company announced in an SGX filing on Monday (May 6) before the market opened. The Japanese department store operator said its lease with JG Trustee (JGT) will expire on Dec 22 this year, after...

PARIS: A decade after a wave of suicides at France Telecom in which 35 employees took their own lives, the telecoms giant and its former CEO go on trial Monday (May 6) for "moral harassment". The case will look at what was behind the deaths that occurred between 2008...

Facebook Inc has thousands of content labelers around the world who categorize content with the aim of creating large datasets that can be more readily analyzed by humans and software.

Over the past year, a team of as many as 260 contract workers in Hyderabad, India has ploughed through millions of Facebook Inc photos, status updates and other content posted since 2014.

Asian equities tumbled, oil prices plunged and the safe-haven yen strengthened early on Monday as trade negotiations between China and the United States deteriorated suddenly, reversing apparent progress made in recent months.

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump dramatically increased pressure on China to reach a trade deal by announcing on Sunday he would hike U.S. tariffs on US$200 billion worth of Chinese goods this week and target hundreds of billions more soon. The move marked a major escalation in trade tensions ......

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump announced on Sunday (May 5) that the United States would raise tariffs on US$200 billion of Chinese goods to 25 per cent this week, because trade talks are moving "too slowly". Trump's action came as a major Chinese delegation is expected to arrive Wednesday ......

There’s a reason labour historians call these perks welfare capitalism, says University of Oregon Elizabeth C Tippett.

CHICAGO/WASHINGTON: Boeing Co did not tell U.S. regulators for more than a year that it inadvertently made an alarm alerting pilots to a mismatch of flight data optional on the 737 MAX, instead of standard as on earlier 737s, but insisted on Sunday the missing display represented no safety...

WASHINGTON: US and Chinese officials say a historic deal ending their ongoing trade war could be imminent, but a key question is how can Washington be sure Beijing will live up to its end of the bargain? With up to 100 Chinese officials reportedly expected next week in Washington,...