The new Tech.Pass, together with Employment Pass salary criteria adjustments, will help develop a Singaporean core with better skills, argues this observer.
The Trump administration on Thursday added China's top chipmaker SMIC and oil giant CNOOC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies, a move likely to escalate tensions with Beijing before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
SINGAPORE plans to take a slice of the carbon trading market, while targeting the greenwashing that threatens the surprisingly unabated demand for sustainable finance.
FOUR years after leaving Goldman Sachs, Gary Cohn seems to have retained the Wall Street firm's sharp elbows. The former chief operating officer is reluctant to return a bonus of around US$10 million as atonement for Goldman's 1MDB scandal, which happened when he was a senior executive....
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq touched all-time highs on Thursday as investors looked past bleak economic data, while remaining focused on a COVID-19 vaccine, with the blue-chip Dow getting a boost from Boeing shares.
AT&T's Warner Bros studio on Thursday (Dec 3) announced that it will make all of its 2021 films available in theatres and on the HBO Max streaming service starting on the same day, an unprecedented shift in response to the coronavirus pandemic that sank shares of movie theatre operators....
Vitol SA's US subsidiary entered a deferred prosecution agreement with the US government over two counts of alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a prosecutor told a US judge in Brooklyn on Thursday.
Budget airline Ryanair on Thursday (Dec 3) ordered 75 additional Boeing 737 MAX jets with a list price of US$9 billion, throwing a commercial lifeline to the embattled US planemaker after regulators lifted a 20-month safety ban.
A federal judge on Thursday said Citigroup Inc's lawsuit to recoup some of the nearly US$900 million it mistakenly paid Revlon Inc's lenders appeared on track for trial next week after receiving assurances he had authority to conduct it.
Southwest Airlines Co said on Thursday it had issued notices to 6,828 employees warning them that they could be furloughed, amid a slump in demand for air travel due to the coronavirus crisis.
