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JOHOR BAHRU: The Sanrio Hello Kitty Town theme park will close down on Jan 1, but this is unlikely to have a major impact on Johor's tourist arrivals, said Liow Cai Tung, who chairs the committee in charge of state tourism, women, family and community development.  “I believe it...

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has ended mobile telephone production in China, it said on Wednesday, hurt by intensifying competition from domestic rivals in the world's biggest smartphone market.

MUMBAI/DHAKA: From Kathmandu to Colombo, it's a kitchen nightmare: Onion prices have gone crazy. That's because India, the world's biggest seller of the Asian diet staple, has banned exports after extended monsoon downpours delayed harvests and supplies shrivelled. And dedicated buyers across the ...

ING Bank on Wednesday announced the appointment of Erwin Maspolim as branch manager of ING Singapore and network head for South-east Asia, effective Oct 1. These appointments are still subject to regulatory approval, the bank said. 

Veteran investor Martin Gilbert will leave Standard Life Aberdeen next year, ending a career spanning more than three decades at the helm of one of Britain's most successful asset managers.

The owners of Paddy Power Betfair and Poker Stars have agreed to merge in an all-share deal that will create the world's largest online betting and gambling company by revenue to take advantage of the opening up of U.S. markets.

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Wednesday it suspended production at its mobile phone factory in China at the end of September.

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's newly launched Mate 30 devices have lost their access to manually install Google's Android apps, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.

Tesla Inc's China factory aims to start production this month but it is unclear when it will meet year-end production targets due to uncertainties around orders, labor and suppliers, sources with knowledge of the matter said.

Gerard Chanquoi looks sadly at the conveyor belts of France's sole remaining tobacco processing factory as they whirl for the last times ahead of its final closure, a victim of changed economic times and a different public health landscape.