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Turkey on Saturday detained the chief of one of the country's biggest cryptocurrency firms after launching a manhunt for the founder of another exchange who fled to Albania.

SINGAPORE: About 900 workplaces have been inspected since the start of April to ensure that they have implemented COVID-19 safe management measures, said the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) on Saturday (Apr 24). Fines have been issued to about 10 companies. MOM provided the figures as it revealed that ...

US President Joe Biden’s early foreign policy offers promise, showing discipline, a focus on Asia and pressing issues on trade, taxation and more. The key question is whether this will last, says Dr Prashanth Parameswaran.

U.S. lawmakers and nonprofit groups on Friday heaped pressure on the Biden administration to back a temporary patent waiver for COVID-19 vaccines to help poor countries contain the pandemic.

ISTANBUL: Turkey issued an international arrest warrant on Friday (Apr 23) for the founder of a cryptocurrency exchange who fled with a reported US$2 billion in investors' assets, state media reported. Police also detained 62 people in raids over their alleged links to Thodex, the company headed ...

BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, France: French trawlermen angered by delays getting licences to fish inside British waters blocked lorries carrying UK-landed fish with burning barricades as they arrived overnight in Europe's largest seafood processing centre. Britain's trade deal with the European Union ...

LONDON: UK Club, an insurer of the Ever Given cargo ship which ran aground in the Suez Canal in March, said on Friday (Apr 23) it had filed an appeal in an Egyptian court over the detention of the vessel by authorities. The Ever Given has been anchored in...

LONDON: Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies suffered hefty losses on Friday (Apr 23) on concern that US President Joe Biden's plan to raise capital gains taxes will curb investment in digital assets. The selloff came after reports that the Biden administration is planning a raft of proposed changes ...

Japanese car giant Honda said on Friday (Apr 23) that it would aim to have electric and fuel cell vehicles account for 100 per cent of all sales by 2040 to promote climate goals.

SINGAPORE: Singapore's key price gauge rose by the fastest pace in more than a year in March, in part due to higher services inflation as well as smaller declines in retail and other goods, official data showed on Friday (Apr 23). The core inflation rate - the central bank's...