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SINGAPORE: With global production lines resuming operations, TranZplus Engineering’s Nelson Lim is confident business will pick up in the coming months.  The precision engineering firm’s chief executive said that orders had fallen by 20 to 30 per cent during Singapore’s “circuit breaker” between ...

Google Pixel 4A comes at a good price as an entry-level smartphone but it faces challenging headwinds, says Chong Guan.

The expectation that retrenchments are likely to increase stems from the severe depth of the current recession, which is set to be longer than the ones which Singapore experienced during the Asian Financial Crisis and the Global Financial Crisis, experts say.

British Trade Secretary Liz Truss pledged to fight U.S tariffs on Scotch whisky, calling them "unacceptable and unfair" in an op-ed in the Telegraph on Sunday.

UBS, the world's largest wealth manager, is targeting for Asia to account for over 30 per cent of its global earnings, with the region set to emerge from the global health crisis much earlier than elsewhere in the world.

THE global pandemic was largely underestimated in the early days of the outbreak. Today, it has brought vast uncertainty, with the Singapore banks in recent times flagging current unknowns as relief measures mask the true damage of Covid-19.

India's main opposition Congress on Sunday called for a parliamentary panel to investigate alleged links between Facebook's India team and the country's ruling party.

Germany's anti-trust authority has launched a new investigation into Amazon's relationship with third-party traders selling on its site, its head was quoted as saying on Sunday.

Unilever's German food company Knorr will rename its popular "Zigeuner" - or gypsy - sauce as Hungarian-style paprika sauce after complaints that the name is offensive, becoming the latest brand to shift after a wave of protests over racism.

India's main opposition Congress on Sunday called for a parliamentary panel to investigate alleged links between Facebook's India team and the country's ruling party.