SINGAPORE: Veteran journalist Patrick Daniel will be the new interim CEO for SPH Media Trust, the new entity that will be formed after Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) restructures its media business. Mr Daniel was former deputy CEO of SPH and previously editor-in-chief of the company’s English ...
Malaysia on Wednesday said the U.S. Department of Justice has returned 1.9 billion ringgit (US$460.22 million) of funds recovered from assets related to state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
Vehicle sales in China rose 8.6per cent in April versus the same month a year earlier, their 13th consecutive month of gains, industry data showed on Wednesday, as the world's biggest car market leads the sector's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Shares in Xiaomi Corp rose as much as 6.71per cent in Hong Kong afternoon trade on Wednesday, following a report that the telecoms giant would be removed from a U.S. blacklist.
SINGAPORE: The Great Singapore Sale (GSS) will team up with online shopping platform Lazada this year – a move that its organisers said is “timely” amid the country’s return to stricter COVID-19 measures and a transformed retail scene. The annual shopping affair, which started 27 years ago, will ......
Japan's coincident indicator index rose in March, the government said on Wednesday, supported by strong retail sales and exports, even as the coronavirus crisis remained a threat to the country's economic recovery.
Philippines' Jollibee Foods Corp said on Wednesday it posted a net profit for the second consecutive quarter, supported by international sales that have recovered to pre-pandemic levels.
TAIPEI: Taiwan may raise its COVID-19 alert level in the "coming days", Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said on Wednesday (May 12), warning of an extremely serious situation on the island which has so far controlled the pandemic well, sending the stock market tanking. On Tuesday, Taiwan announced ...
SYDNEY: Lockdown-fuelled demand for take-out meals has brought throngs of new delivery riders onto streets around the world, but in Australia the boom has also seen tragedy with a spate of road deaths highlighting the plight of couriers. As many industries ground to a halt last year, millions lost...
BEIJING: Chinese grocery app Dingdong Maicai has raised US$330 million, advisor Cygnus Equity said on Wednesday, amid a surge of fundraising in the sector. The so-called D-plus round of fundraising led by the SoftBank Vision Fund followed the vegetable e-commerce platform's US$700 million D ...
