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Chinese Starbucks customers can order the coffee chain's drinks on Alibaba's Taobao marketplace and mobile map app Amap, the companies said on Tuesday, expanding a partnership signed in 2018.

The shock of the pandemic has spared no one, but the costs have not been evenly distributed.

SINGAPORE: Temasek Holdings reported a 2.2 per cent drop in annual net portfolio value in a pandemic-hit year as it unveiled preliminary performance and said it was ready to invest in opportunities arising from volatile market conditions. For the year ended Mar 31, Temasek’s net portfolio value ...

SYDNEY: Australia will extend record stimulus spending into next year, the government announced on Tuesday (Jul 21), outlining multi-billion-dollar measures to shield the labour market from the ravages of the rolling coronavirus crisis. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that supplements both to ...

SINGAPORE firms are planning to invest in supply chain digitisation and lean into their intra-regional partners to build future resilience, according to survey findings from HSBC released on Tuesday.

SINGAPORE: Southeast Asian low-cost carriers, a key growth engine for planemakers and leasing companies for a decade before the pandemic, are faltering financially as demand plunges, raising questions over whether they can replace and double their fleets. Auditors for Malaysia's AirAsia Group and ...

Asian shares advanced on Tuesday as prospects of a deal by European Union leaders to jointly fund recovery of their economies and hopes for a coronavirus vaccine lifted risk appetite.

International Business Machines Corp beat estimates for second-quarter profit on Monday and signalled that demand in its cloud computing business would get a boost as large corporations accelerate their digital shift due to the coronavirus crisis.

LONDON: Britain's finance ministry on Monday proposed giving the City's watchdog new powers to regulate crypto assets like bitcoin, and also outlined a crackdown on misleading sales literature bombarding consumers over the internet. Currently any firm authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority ...

Oil prices were little changed on Tuesday, trapped in the narrow trading band of the past three weeks as investors gauged hopes for a recovery in oil demand against fears of new lockdowns due to a growing number of coronavirus cases.