Shares of AstraZeneca rose 1per cent to 8,516 pence on Monday after the British drugmaker received the go-ahead from safety watchdogs over the weekend to resume clinical trials for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate in the United Kingdom.
Amazon.com Inc on Monday said it is recruiting 100,000 more workers - the fourth hiring spree it has announced for the United States this year - to keep pace with e-commerce demand that jumped during the pandemic.
A Thailand court on Monday approved the restructuring of Thai Airways, which is billions of dollars in debt and struggling to survive the coronavirus tourism crash.
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Monday backed an intervention by the country's foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian in luxury goods giant LVMH's plans to back out of a takeover of U.S. jeweler Tiffany .
SINGAPORE: Companies under the Scale-up SG programme, which aims to groom high-growth local businesses into global leaders, will receive more support in terms of participation costs – up from 70 per cent to 80 per cent – for a year until September 2021. This was announced by Trade and...
SINGAPORE: Singapore investment firm Commonwealth Capital and seafood restaurant Jumbo Group have come forward to offer jobs to recently retrenched employees from the Singapore Airlines (SIA) Group, said Trade and Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing on Monday (Sep 14). The two companies join ...
TEMASEK Financial (I) Limited (TFin-I), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore investment firm Temasek Holdings, has increased the limit of its guaranteed global medium-term note programme to US$25 billion, from US$20 billion previously.
Chinese automakers have announced plans to increase sales of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, a niche segment in the world's biggest auto market, and the government is expected to announce supportive new policies, possibly as early as this month .
Nvidia Corp's US$40 billion agreement to acquire Arm Ltd from SoftBank Group Corp is likely to meet strong opposition from Nvidia's chip industry rivals, analysts say, with murmurs of protest emerging in South Korea and China within hours of the deal's announcement.
Chinese investment in Australia almost halved in 2019, new data released Monday showed, as relations between the two countries deteriorated.
