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TOKYO: Japan's biggest airline ANA said on Monday (Apr 26) it aims to become carbon neutral by 2050 through new technology, emissions trading and other efforts. It comes after Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced last week that Japan would target a 46 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions...

SINGAPORE: Construction firms will get more flexibility to hire workers from China and more time to complete public sector projects as part of support measures announced on Monday (Apr 26). This is to mitigate the effects of a ban on long-term pass holders and short-term visitors from India after ...

OCBC has appointed Ivy Au-Yeung as chief executive officer (CEO) of OCBC Wing Hang Bank, as the current head of the bank's Hong Kong unit retires.

SINGAPORE: Singapore's manufacturing output rose 7.6 per cent year-on-year in March for a fifth consecutive month of growth, albeit at a slower pace than the previous months. March's expansion follows a 16.5 per cent year-on-year increase in February, according to official data released on Monday ...

SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines (SIA) said on Monday (Apr 26) it welcomes the decision to relaunch the air travel bubble between Singapore and Hong Kong on May 26. In a statement responding to the announcement, the national carrier said the move is an "important milestone" in its recovery and helps ...

BENGALURU: The Indian government asked social media platform Twitter to take down dozens of tweets, including some by local lawmakers, that were critical of India's handling of the coronavirus outbreak, as cases of COVID-19 again hit a world record. Twitter has withheld some of the tweets after ...

HONG KONG: Chinese property developers have turned their sights to Hong Kong's border districts as mainlanders from neighbouring boomtown Shenzhen consider parts of the former British colony as a more affordable long-term housing prospect. The development plans are seen by some as a turning point ...

SHANGHAI: In China's commercial hub Shanghai, six big state banks are quietly promoting digital yuan ahead of a May 5 shopping festival, carrying out a political mandate to provide consumers with a payment alternative to Alipay and WeChat Pay. The banks are persuading merchant and retail clients ...

British lawmakers on Monday called on the government to publish all communications with pharmaceutical companies to understand if private lobbying influenced its opposition to a waiver of intellectual property rules for COVID-19 vaccines.

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