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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.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is set to price its first share sale in Hong Kong next week, raising up to US$13.4 billion in what will be the largest deal in the city since 2010 and the world's biggest ever cross-border secondary listing.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's economy grew at its slowest pace in a year in the third quarter as exports faltered, but the central bank said growth will remain positive and maintained its outlook for 2019. Gross domestic product grew 4.4 per cent in the July-September quarter, slowing from the 4.9...

JAKARTA: Indonesia swung to a trade surplus in October due to a slower-than-expected drop in exports, despite weak global trade amid the US-China trade war, data from the statistics bureau showed on Friday (Nov 15). Southeast Asia's largest economy recorded a trade surplus of US$161.3 million in ...

Private sleuth Sun Jinrong brings heat detectors, tiny surveillance cameras, and a blow dart loaded with a tranquiliser to his search for one desperate client's missing loved one: A cat named Duoduo.

Asian stocks jumped on Friday, propelled by a record S&P 500 finish and White House comments suggesting Washington and Beijing were close to striking a trade deal, reviving hopes the tariff war may near an end.

Oil prices posted early gains as OPEC's outlook for oil demand next year fueled hopes that the producer group and its associates will keep a lid on supply when they meet to discuss policy on output next month.

DBS Bank on Friday said it has partnered Exiger, a provider of risk and compliance solutions to fight financial crime, to implement an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered due diligence solution to streamline and boost its screening processes.

Boeing's multibillion dollar contract to build U.S. astronaut capsules received an "unnecessary" extension from NASA, a watchdog report said on Thursday, the latest management blunders in the agency's program to restart domestic human spaceflight. NASA agreed to pay Boeing Co a US$287 million ...

Activist investor Carl Icahn will not have access to Occidental Petroleum Corp's Anadarko takeover records to support his proxy fight against the oil firm's board, a Delaware court judge ruled on Thursday.