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Chinese personal computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd reported a 11per cent jump in third-quarter net profit on Thursday, slightly beating analysts' estimates, due to higher shipments.

WASHINGTON: While US trade tensions have receded, including with China, Federal Reserve officials worry the danger to the economy is not over, according to minutes of the last policy meeting released on Wednesday (Feb 19). President Donald Trump last month signed a "phase one" agreement with ...

SINGAPORE: The Singapore High Court on Thursday (Feb 20) granted embattled water treatment firm Hyflux another two-month extension for its debt moratorium. The court-sanctioned moratorium, which currently grants it a reprieve from creditors until Feb 28, will now end on Apr 30. This was the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump offered to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if he said that Russia had nothing to do with WikiLeaks' publication of Democratic Party emails in 2016, a London court heard on Wednesday.

Google is planning to move its British users' accounts out of the control of European Union privacy regulators, placing them under U.S. jurisdiction instead, the company confirmed late on Wednesday.

LOGISTICS real estate giant ESR Cayman, the sponsor of Singapore mainboard-listed ESR-Reit, on Thursday said it will offer S$225 million worth of five-year notes at par.

SINGAPORE: The newly announced measures to help firms, workers and households amid the novel coronavirus outbreak are appropriate for now but the Government is prepared to do more if necessary, said Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat on Wednesday (Feb 19) at a post-Budget television programme ...

WASHINGTON: In the best-case scenario, the economic hit from the epidemic in China will be short-lived, but it comes as the global economy remains fragile, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said on Wednesday (Feb 19). Beset by many other risks, including the paused but still-unresolved US-China trade ...

WASHINGTON: World Bank aid payments to the neediest countries appear to trigger money flows to offshore bank accounts, suggesting funds are siphoned off from the nations they are meant to help, according to a study published on Tuesday (Feb 19). Data showed these aid payments are mirrored by ......

The first draft decisions by Ireland's data privacy regulator on probes into some of the world's biggest technology firms will go for consultation with other EU regulators this year, the lead watchdog for the bloc said on Thursday.