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Ryanair said on Monday it expects to take delivery of its first Boeing 737 MAX in March at the earliest, two months later than it last forecast, pushing its passenger growth for next year to its lowest level in years.

SINGAPORE: Embattled water treatment firm Hyflux and United Arab Emirates utility firm Utico are still in negotiations to ink a definitive restructuring agreement, Hyflux lawyer Manoj Sandrasegara of WongPartnership told CNA on Monday (Nov 4). Mr Manoj said both firms were engaged in conference ...

BANGKOK: Thailand said on Monday (Nov 4) that Asian countries had held conclusive talks on what could be the world's biggest trade pact and there would be an announcement of success at a summit in Bangkok despite doubts raised by India. Spurred in part by the US-China trade war, Southeast...

French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in China on Monday to drum up new business deals, but under warning from his hosts to keep off thorny issues such as the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

Japanese officials are checking their country into the cash addiction clinic. Ditching banknotes could generate a big one-off boost to economic activity, plus permanently upgrade productivity. But the government will have to give stronger encouragement to elderly consumers, polite bankers and reluctant merchants to change their...

MANILA: Philippines' Cebu Air Inc has finalised the purchase of 16 long-range Airbus A330neo jets worth US$4.8 billion at list prices, the airline said on Monday (Nov 4). The budget carrier, which operates 74 aircraft, mostly Airbus A320s, under the brand Cebu Pacific, is turning to larger and ...

NEW YORK: After some "very good conversations" with automakers in the European Union, Japan and elsewhere, the United States may not need to impose new tariffs on imported automobiles, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Sunday. "Our hope is that the negotiations we've been having with individual ...

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said licenses for U.S. companies to sell components to China's Huawei will come "very shortly," in an interview with Bloomberg published on Sunday.

Under Armour Inc is being probed by U.S. federal law enforcement officials, examining whether the sportswear maker shifted sales from quarter to quarter to appear healthier, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

SYDNEY: Australia's Westpac Group on Monday (Nov 4) announced full-year profits had fallen 16 per cent to just under Aus$6.8 billion (US$4.7 billion), as the impact of a major banking industry scandal continues to bite. The Sydney-based bank, one of Australia's four largest financial institutions ...