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SINGAPORE: A fraudulent website has been soliciting Bitcoin investments by using fabricated comments attributed to a senior minister, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) warned in an advisory on Tuesday (Dec 3). The website, attempting to pose as local news outlet The Straits Times, features ...

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said on Tuesday it has raised an additional HKUS$13.17 billion (US$1.68 billion) by exercising the over-allotment option in its Hong Kong secondary listing.

Finnish telecoms equipment maker Nokia said on Tuesday its board would name Sari Baldauf to succeed Risto Siilasmaa as board chairman at the next annual shareholders meeting.

SINGAPORE: Singapore's factory activity shrank for the seventh straight month in November but recorded a slower rate of contraction compared with the previous month. November's Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), which measures manufacturing activity and sentiment, came in at 49.8, according to data ...

Huawei Technologies is facing a public backlash in China after details of the dismissal and wrongful detention of a former employee went viral.

SINGAPORE: Would you pay more for packaging if you knew it was environmentally friendly?  Polar Water is confident that Singaporean consumers are ready to do so, as they rolled out their new line of carton-packaged water on Tuesday (Dec 3). The new packaging, manufactured by Tetra Pak, is 70...

Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the world's largest pension fund, has suspended stock lending for short selling, calling the practice inconsistent with its responsibilities as a long-term investor.

U.S. stock index futures slipped on Tuesday after President Donald Trump said a trade deal with China might have to wait until after the U.S. presidential election in November 2020, sparking fears of a delay in resolving the tariff dispute.

Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of Apple supplier Foxconn, said on Tuesday he would discuss investment and the China-U.S. trade war while in the United States, adding that he may get to meet U.S. President Donald Trump again.

The Trump administration considered banning China's Huawei from the U.S. financial system earlier this year as part of a host of policy options to thwart the blacklisted telecoms equipment giant, according to three people familiar with the matter.