China has taken initial steps to improve protection of US know-how under the "Phase One" trade pact, but must go further and implement those measures, the top US trade negotiator said Friday.
Sri Lanka announced Friday that its economy shrank 3.6 percent last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, making it the worst downturn since independence from Britain in 1948.
U11 UOB is considering downsizing its office space as hybrid work arrangements gain momentum, but the bank's chief executive officer and deputy chairman Wee Ee Cheong does not expect too significant a reduction in real estate.
AstraZeneca said on Friday (Apr 30) its COVID-19 vaccine contributed US$275 million in sales and shaved off three cents per share from its first-quarter earnings, as the drug maker reported better-than-expected results and forecast sales growth. This is the first time the drug maker has given ...
FINANCIAL firms are expected to return less office space than DBS Group Research had earlier projected.
SHARES of DBS rose to a 52-week high on Friday after it posted a 72 per cent year-on-year rise in net profit to S$2.01 billion for the quarter ended March 31.
THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will commit S$42 million for a new regulatory technology (RegTech) grant scheme, while enhancing the Digital Acceleration Grant (DAG) scheme, it said on Friday.
SINGAPORE: Another 23 charges were filed in court on Friday (Apr 30) against Lim Oon Kuin, the founder of collapsed oil trading firm Hin Leong Trading. Singapore police last year charged the 79-year-old former oil tycoon, better known as OK Lim, with two counts of abetment of forgery for...
TOKYO: Tokyo consumer prices fell unexpectedly in April due to cuts in mobile phone fees by major carriers, government data showed on Friday (Apr 30), making the central bank's 2 per cent inflation target appear even more elusive. Major carriers have come under intense pressure from Prime Minister ......
SINGAPORE: Singapore's prosecutor on Friday (Apr 30) filed 23 more charges in court against Lim Oon Kuin, the founder of collapsed oil trading firm Hin Leong Trading. Singapore police last year charged 79-year-old former oil tycoon Lim Oon Kuin, better known as OK Lim, with two counts of abetment...
