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SINGAPORE: The Building and Construction Authority (BCA) will have a new chairman and deputy chairman from Thursday (Apr 1). BCA board members Mr Lim Sim Seng, group head of consumer banking and wealth management of DBS Bank and Er Professor Tan Thiam Soon, president of Singapore Institute of ......

Google, BMW, Volvo and Samsung SDI are the first global companies to have signed up to a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) call for a moratorium on deep-sea mining, the WWF said on Wednesday.

The China-U.S. trade war is pushing Beijing to step up its efforts to steal technology and poach talent from Taiwan to boost China's semiconductor industry's self-sufficiency, the government of the tech-powerhouse island said on Wednesday.

Fujifilm Holdings Corp said on Wednesday that Shigetaka Komori, who oversaw the company's transition from film business to healthcare, would step down as chairman and chief executive in June.

OCBC has launched home and renovation loans that incentivise residential property owners to make their homes mores eco-friendly in exchange for lower interest rates - a first in Singapore.

SYDNEY :Asian stocks were on the backfoot on Wednesday while the safe-haven dollar held near a one-year high as Treasury yields resumed their upward march, hitting sentiment even as Chinese data underpinned signs of a solid global economic recovery.

Two advocacy groups on Wednesday called on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate whether apps that Google's Play Store labels as "Teacher approved" are unlawfully collecting personal data without parental consent to target ads at children.

FINANCIAL institutions will have to cease the use of the Swap Offer Rate (SOR) in new derivatives contracts by end-September 2021, in a freshly announced timeline to further push the industry towards the Singapore Overnight Rate Average (Sora) as the main interest rate benchmark.

The National Labor Relations Board's review of ballots from Amazon.com Inc's landmark union election in Alabama will continue on Wednesday, with momentum for future labor organizing at America's second-largest private employer hanging in the balance.

Four Republican U.S. lawmakers requested on Tuesday that Facebook Inc, Twitter Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google turn over any studies they have done on how their services affect children's mental health.