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More than a dozen U.S. trade groups and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Friday urged the Trump administration to block a French-style digital services tax proposed by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during October's election.

Nine-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt is bringing his electric scooters to Japan, hopeful that his celebrity status will help persuade regulators that the environmental benefits are important enough to relax some of the curbs on their use.

An eight-month crisis over the grounding of Boeing's 737 MAX jets and widespread industrial delays are setting an unpredictable backdrop to next week's Dubai Airshow, with some airlines reviewing fleet plans even as others look for bargains.

SINGAPORE: Sales of private homes by developers in Singapore fell 27 per cent in October from the previous month, official data released on Friday (Nov 15) showed. Data compiled by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) showed developers sold 928 units last month, compared with 1,270 units in ...

LOCAL vehicle leasing giant Goldbell Group announced the launch of its private debt investment platform Goldbell Evolution Network (GEN) on Friday which seeks to offer yields of between 5-12 per cent returns.

HONG KONG: Hong Kong confirmed on Friday (Nov 15) its economy plunged into its first recession in a decade in the third quarter, weighed down by increasingly violent anti-government protests and the escalating US-China trade war. The economy shrank by a seasonally adjusted 3.2 per cent in July ...

Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia Group said on Friday it would sell flights on more than 100 other global airlines as part of a push to boost revenues.

A floating dead pig infected with African swine fever washed up in Taiwan last week, according to a UN report, which also recorded a fresh mainland China outbreak and an attempt to illegally transport infected pigs.

SYDNEY: Qantas Airways may not place an order for planes capable of non-stop London-Sydney flights until early next year, the airline's chief executive said on Friday (Nov 15) after a 19-hour, 19-minute test flight landed in Australia's biggest city. Alan Joyce said he saw a "double sunrise" as a ...

Workers at South African Airways (SAA) downed tools on Friday in a strike over wages and job cuts that has forced the troubled state-owned carrier to cancel all flights and left its future hanging in the balance.