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Indonesia's trade surplus likely narrowed in April, with exports and imports seen accelerating amid a steady global economic recovery and higher commodity prices, a Reuters poll showed on Tuesday.

Shares of Toyota Motor rose for a third straight session and hit a record high on Tuesday, as investors continued to bet on the Japanese automaker's ability to tackle a global chip shortage better than its rivals.

HONG KONG: Hong Kong's leader said that freezing the assets of democracy activist Jimmy Lai, including his majority stake in media publisher Next Digital, would hopefully reinforce the Asian financial hub's status by ensuring national security. Carrie Lam, speaking at a weekly press briefing on ...

Hong Kong's leader said that freezing the assets of democracy activist Jimmy Lai, including his majority stake in media publisher Next Digital, would hopefully reinforce the Asian financial hub's status by ensuring national security.

Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and partners have invested US$400 million in the retail unit of Vietnamese conglomerate Masan Group Corp, Masan said in a statement on Tuesday.

SINGAPORE: Two Daewoo Engineering and Construction executives, who gave bribes to a Land Transport Authority (LTA) deputy group director while working on their company's first project in Singapore, were jailed for eight months on Tuesday (May 18). Kim Young-Gyu, a 52-year-old director, and Ro ...

The dollar plumbed a six-year trough against the Canadian dollar and teetered near multi-month lows versus European currencies amid renewed expectations that the United States will not hike interest rates anytime soon.

TOKYO: Japan's economy shrank more than expected in the first quarter as the slow vaccine roll-out and a resurgence in COVID-19 infections hit consumption, reinforcing expectations the country will lag major trading partners in emerging from the pandemic. Extended state of emergency curbs are ...

JPMORGAN Private Bank on Tuesday named Elaine Zhang as its new China market leader for Singapore.

SINGAPORE: For the past few weeks, jewellery and ear-piercing store Stellar had raked in as much as S$3,300 in sales every Sunday at its outlet at VivoCity. But it made just S$2 in an entire day, after tightened COVID-19 restrictions kicked in last Sunday (May 16) with the aim of...