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SINGAPORE: Seven industry-led alliances formed to create and execute ideas to help Singapore as it attempts to steer the economy out of the COVID-19 crisis have developed solutions that include launching autonomous shuttles on the road and creating seamless shopping experiences to help the retail ...

Some of the relatives of victims of a fatal Boeing 737 MAX crash in Indonesia have slammed a decision by U.S. aviation authorities to allow the jets to return to the skies, saying the move comes too soon.

HSBC Singapore has launched a new coverage division to support the mid-sized non-bank financial institutions (NBFI) sector.

U.S. online retailer Amazon.com Inc has laid off dozens of R&D and manufacturing staff from its delivery drone project, Amazon Prime Air, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.

It's 10 p.m. in the world's largest electronics market, and lines of delivery workers who once hauled computer components and knock-off phones now push carts overflowing with Mac lipsticks, Bioderma cleansers and other foreign beauty brands.

Global regulators have held off approving the Boeing 737 MAX despite a decision by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to end a 20-month grounding, highlighting changes in the global regulatory pecking order caused by two crashes of the jet.

SINGAPORE: More employees lodged claims for owed salaries in 2019 compared to the year before, according to the latest Employment Standards Report released on Thursday (Nov 19). Overall salary claims rose from 2.42 claims per 1,000 employees in 2018 to 2.68 claims in 2019. It later fell to an...

SINGAPORE: The work pass privileges of about 70 employers were suspended in the first half of this year for discriminatory hiring practices. This is a "significant increase" from the figure of 35 in the whole of 2019, according to the latest Employment Standards Report. About 43 per cent of them...

Wirecard's former boss Markus Braun is due to appear before a German parliamentary committee on Thursday, temporarily leaving jail to testify over the collapse of what was once hailed as Germany's leading financial technology firm.

President Xi Jinping pegged China as the pivot point for global free trade Thursday, vowing to keep his "super-sized" economy open and warning against protectionism in a global economy eviscerated by the Covid-19 pandemic.