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MANULIFE Singapore has committed S$1 million via a Covid-19 support fund to provide additional protection coverage to its customers in the Republic at no added cost.

INSURERS in Singapore have over the past week rolled out free coverage initiatives, ranging from diagnosis benefits, hospitalisation coverage and death benefits, to support their customers amid the Covid-19 situation. 

WASHINGTON: The United States' ambassador to Germany said Sunday (Feb 16) that President Donald Trump had threatened to cut off intelligence-sharing with countries that dealt with Chinese tech firm Huawei. Washington has been pressing allies to ban Huawei, one of the world's largest tech firms ...

TOKYO: Japan has suffered its worst quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) contraction in more than five years, with a tax hike and a deadly typhoon taking a toll on the world's third-largest economy. The nation's GDP in the three months to December shrank 1.6 per cent from the previous...

The British government will invest 1.2 billion pounds (US$1.6 billion) in what it says is the world's most powerful supercomputer to provide more accurate weather and climate forecasts.

China's Great Wall Motor said on Monday it had signed a binding agreement to purchase a car plant from General Motors in Thailand.

SINGAPORE: Singapore said on Monday (Feb 17) its non-oil domestic exports declined in January, as it cut its growth forecast for the year partly due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Exports declined 3.3 per cent in January, after a 2.4 per cent expansion in December following nine months of contraction ...

With the COVID-19 outbreak in China continuing to spread, McDonald's, Starbucks and other fast-food companies are ramping up "contactless" pickup and delivery services to keep their workers and customers safe, the companies said.

SINGAPORE: After seeing its economy grow at a decade-low of 0.7 per cent last year, Singapore is expecting possibly even slower growth in 2020 and has downgraded its gross domestic product (GDP) forecast amid concerns about the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. Economic growth for this year is now ...

U.S. printer maker Xerox Holdings Corp is hosting a dinner for HP Inc shareholders this week as it seeks investor support to overcome the personal computer maker's resistance to its US$35 billion takeover bid, according to people familiar with the matter.