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India's trade deficit in goods was US$15.10 billion in April, revised trade data released by the government on Friday showed.

Changi Airport has become Singapore's largest active COVID-19 cluster, prompting a 14-day closure to the public.

SINGAPORE: Singapore shares tumbled to a more than two-month low on Friday (May 14), with aviation-related counters among the worst hit, as investors reacted to a further tightening in the country’s COVID-19 restrictions. To curb the rising number of community infections, dining-in will once ...

Indian drugmaker Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd said on Friday it expects to get 36 million doses of Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine in the next couple of months under its contract with Russia's sovereign wealth fund.

SINGAPORE: Companies can now tap grants of up to S$8,000 to provide new rest areas for their outsourced cleaners or security officers.  Under the Workcare Grant launched on Friday (May 14), eligible companies can get funding support of up to 80 per cent of costs incurred from creating a new rest...

Thailand's economy likely shrank in the first quarter of this year, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, as coronavirus outbreaks in the beginning of 2021 hurt consumption and tourism, slowing the pace of the economic recovery.

YANGON: If you need cash in Myanmar, you have to get up early. Queues start forming outside banks at 4am, where the first 15 or 30 customers are given a plastic token that will allow them to enter the bank when it opens at 9.30am and withdraw cash, according...

SINGAPORE: The Government will increase support for F&B businesses under the Jobs Support Scheme (JSS) to 50 per cent, following the announcement that dining-in will be suspended from Sunday (May 16).  This is an increase from the 10 per cent support of wages paid up to June 2021. Speaking at...

Hong Kong's economy grew a revised 7.9per cent in the first quarter from a year earlier, the government said on Friday, snapping six consecutive quarters of annual contractions, boosted by a lower coronavirus threat and mainland China's recovery.