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Airbus SE's Canadian-designed A220 narrowbody jet has the potential to be stretched to carry more passengers but the company has no current plans to do so, a top executive said on Tuesday.

The Chinese government’s top priority should be to arrest the decline in GDP growth, says former President of the China Society of World Economics Yu Yongding.

The Saudi government's oil firm is set to become the world's biggest public company, but investors are already betting against its long-term prospects, says Lancaster University's Mark Shackleton.

Is it time to reflect upon our extreme consumerism and think about what deeper psychological problems might undergird our purchases? The Singapore University of Social Science’s Dr Lau Kong Cheen certainly thinks so.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook are expected to tour facilities in Texas where Apple products are made as soon as next week to showcase companies that keep jobs in America, according to two people familiar with the matter.

<p>FACEBOOK'S embattled digital currency Libra may have faced fierce pushback from the get-go, but its attempt to solve the cross-border payments problem is still cautiously welcomed by some central bankers and private players.</p>

<p>FINANCIAL technology (fintech) firms in Singapore continued to attract the lion's share of global funding among Asean countries, and the Republic remains the preferred base for fintech firms in the region, a new report by United Overseas Bank (UOB), PwC and the Singapore FinTech Association (SFA) has...

<p>THE central bank of France, Banque de France (BDF), will open an Asian office in Singapore early next year, making this its second office abroad after New York, it said in a joint statement with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Tuesday.</p>

<p>CHINA'S most ubiquitous company is hiding one of its most valuable assets. That needs to change.</p>

<p>AS THE deadline for digital banking applications creeps closer, high-profile payments fintech Revolut has closed the door to joining Singapore's digital bank landscape over high capital requirements, its top executive told The Business Times (BT).</p>