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SINGAPORE: Food and beverage outlets now have a new delivery service option – using ComfortDelGro taxis. Starting from Wednesday (Apr 29), F&B outlets can sign up for the delivery service, called ComfortDelivery, and have "immediate access to a fleet of 10,000 taxis" for food deliveries, said the ...

Movie moguls, directors and lawyers are searching for radical solutions to reopen Hollywood as soundstages gather dust and studio profits slide weeks after cameras stopped rolling due to COVID-19.

WASHINGTON/CHICAGO: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (Apr 28) ordered meat-processing plants to stay open to protect the food supply in the United States, despite concerns about coronavirus outbreaks, drawing a backlash from unions that said at-risk workers required more protection. With ...

YouTube, the video service of Alphabet Inc's Google, said on Tuesday it would start showing text and links from third-party fact-checkers to U.S. viewers, part of efforts to curb misinformation on the site during the COVID-19 pandemic.

SINGAPORE: When home baker Lee Su Fang heard about the tighter COVID-19 "circuit breaker" rules last week, she was already expecting the worst for her business.  The authorities had announced on Apr 21 that the list of what are considered essential services will be trimmed. Shops that sell only ...

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Wednesday it expected its profit to decline in the current quarter, as strength in the chip business would be offset by a sales slump in smartphones and TVs.

Asian equities made cautious gains in early trade on Wednesday following mixed U.S. corporate earnings while oil prices looked set for more wild swings as storage concerns capped optimism about easing coronavirus lockdowns.

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said its operating profit rose 3per cent in the January to March period, in line with its earlier estimate, as the stay-at-home trend due to the COVID-19 pandemic cushioned the virus blow.

Office density may well fall for some organisations, but only for those who robustly embrace the dynamic hot-desking model, says Anthony Oundjian of Boston Consulting Group.

THE scale of bad loan provisions and how the dour economic environment will impact dividends will be closely watched by analysts in the upcoming results of Singapore's banks - the first quarter that will reflect the early impact of a global pandemic.