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Vietnam reported a trade deficit of US$1.22 billion in April, swinging from a surplus of US$1.2 billion in March, government customs data released on Wednesday showed.

Toyota Motor Corp reported on Wednesday its fourth-quarter operating profit jumped 92per cent, nearly doubling since last year as it shrugged off chip-supply issues and as its sales recovered from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp and the U.S. Defense Department have agreed to resolve their litigation, a court filing showed.

BEIJING: Exquisitely garbed in a traditional cheongsam dress, 76-year-old Sang Xiuzhu is one of an unlikely vanguard of elderly influencers storming Chinese social media with videos of glamour in the golden years. Two years ago she joined the "Fashion Grandmas", whose one-minute clips and ...

SINGAPORE: Nine contracts worth about RM1 billion (S$320 million) were recently awarded for systems works on the Johor Bahru-Singapore Rapid Transit System (RTS) Link, said operator RTS Operations. RTS Operations - formed in 2020 as a joint venture between Singapore’s SMRT and Malaysian rail ...

SINGAPORE: Veteran journalist Patrick Daniel will be the new interim CEO for SPH Media Trust, the new entity that will be formed after Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) restructures its media business. Mr Daniel was former deputy CEO of SPH and previously editor-in-chief of the company’s English ...

Malaysia on Wednesday said the U.S. Department of Justice has returned 1.9 billion ringgit (US$460.22 million) of funds recovered from assets related to state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

Vehicle sales in China rose 8.6per cent in April versus the same month a year earlier, their 13th consecutive month of gains, industry data showed on Wednesday, as the world's biggest car market leads the sector's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Shares in Xiaomi Corp rose as much as 6.71per cent in Hong Kong afternoon trade on Wednesday, following a report that the telecoms giant would be removed from a U.S. blacklist.

SINGAPORE: The Great Singapore Sale (GSS) will team up with online shopping platform Lazada this year – a move that its organisers said is “timely” amid the country’s return to stricter COVID-19 measures and a transformed retail scene. The annual shopping affair, which started 27 years ago, will ......