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E-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc's long-serving executive Steve Kessel will leave the company after 20 years, a company spokesperson told Reuters on Friday.

The IMF on Friday praised Pakistan's economic performance and agreed on next steps, paving the way for release of another portion of a $6 billion, three-year loan package.

The We Company, owner of office-space sharing company WeWork, disclosed on Friday it will divest all non-core businesses and reduce headcount across its ventures as part of a 90-day plan.

General Dynamics Corp has been awarded a US$732 million U.S. defense contract for sustainment of the Mobile User Objective System ground system, a narrowband military satellite communications system, the Pentagon said on Friday.

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk and noted short-seller David Einhorn mocked each other in open letters published on Twitter on Friday, trading barbs clothed in polite language.

<p>KEVIN Kiprovski had a lofty title, "Expeditions Associate", and a fun job - he got to demo Google virtual reality gear to young students. When visiting schools, he wore a grey T-shirt with a cartoon whale and a Google logo.</p>

<p>AMID mounting geopolitical tensions and sluggish growth, Singapore's richest are getting richer, generating their wealth from feeding the robust demand for goods and services of Asia's growing middle class.</p>

<p>THE European Union-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (EUSFTA) has received approval from the Council of the European Union, Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations S Iswaran and European Commissioner-Designate for Trade Phil Hogan announced at the EUSFTA Gala Dinner in Singapore on Friday night.</p>

<p>A GREEN initiative to manage ships' sulphur emissions will be enhanced to focus on decarbonisation for the next five years. This was just one among a slew of measures announced by Singapore's shipping authority to ready ship owners and operators for the future.</p>

<p>TEMASEK International has appointed Chia Song Hwee as deputy chief executive officer with effect from Jan 1, 2020, CEO Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara announced on Friday.</p>