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SINGAPORE: Singapore has begun importing frozen shrimp from Saudi Arabia, a move that will lay the foundations for more food imports and exports between the two countries, Trade and Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing said on Wednesday (Nov 25). “Prior to this, I think very few of us would have...

China's annual World Internet Conference is usually a forum for luminaries from the country's online giants and government bodies to discuss pressing issues of the day.

FINTECH company IN Financial Technologies has received S$5 million in a round led by DeClout Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of the DeClout group.

SINGAPORE: Singapore needs to manage the risks – not eliminate them entirely – as the country prepares to reopen for travel, Minister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing said on Wednesday (Nov 25). "Shutting ourselves off from the world is not an option," Mr Chan said in a...

Asian stocks made early gains on Wednesday, following a world rally overnight that saw the Dow Jones benchmark crack 30,000 for the first time as investors cheered a dramatically improved global outlook.

MELBOURNE: Rio Tinto's destruction of sacred Indigenous rock shelters in Australia this year has dismayed and galvanised a swathe of investors who want big changes in how mining firms manage heritage issues and have begun to tell them so. They have stepped up communication with mining companies ...

BRASILIA: China's embassy in Brazil on Tuesday (Nov 24) said a son of President Jair Bolsonaro had harmed relations between the two countries with critical comments about telecommunications equipment firm Huawei. The rift was the latest chapter in a battle between China and the United States over ...

Twitter Inc on Tuesday released plans for its new policy on how people are "verified" on the site, an area the company has long promised to revamp to address confusion and criticisms over the blue check-mark badges it uses to authenticate the identity of prominent accounts.

YouTube said on Tuesday it had barred the right-wing outlet One America News Network from posting new videos for a week after it broke the site's rules against content that claims there is a guaranteed cure for COVID-19.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said on Tuesday it had rejected a petition from ZTE Corp asking the agency to reconsider its decision designating the Chinese company as a U.S. national security threat to communications networks.