Norwegian oil and gas firm Equinor plans to cut its exploration staff by about 30per cent globally by 2023 to reduce costs as the COVID-19 pandemic reduces demand for petroleum, the company said on Friday.
HONG KONG: US futures and most Asian equities sank on Friday (Oct 2) after Donald Trump announced he and his wife had tested positive for coronavirus. The news compounded uncertainty on trading floors, where investors were already in a pessimistic mood owing to US lawmakers' failure to pass a...
Norwegian oil and gas firm Equinor plans to cut its exploration staff by about 30per cent globally by 2023 to reduce costs as the COVID-19 pandemic reduces demand for petroleum, the company said on Friday.
HONG Kong-based financial services firm AMTD Group is setting up a professional services arm, after acquiring a controlling interest in the non-assurance business of accounting and consulting firm Nexia TS for an undisclosed sum.
SINGAPORE: Close to S$10 million worth of Jobs Support Scheme (JSS) payouts were denied to 444 employers, either partially or in full, after "unacceptable practices" were observed, said the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) on Friday (Oct 2). Some of these practices include employers ...
Investments by China's Huawei are not regular market transactions but rather "predatory actions" and all countries should ban them, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a newspaper interview on Friday.
Investments by China's Huawei are not regular market transactions but rather "predatory actions" and all countries should ban them, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a newspaper interview on Friday.
SINGAPORE: The Lim Chu Kang area is set to be transformed into a high-tech agri-food cluster, in a move that will strengthen Singapore’s food security and also create jobs for Singaporeans. The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) announced the master plan exercise on Friday (Oct 2), saying that the ......
FROM next April, Central Provident Fund (CPF) members under the Dependants' Protection Scheme (DPS) will get a higher sum assured of S$70,000, up from S$46,000 at "more attractive premiums", CPF said in a press statement on Friday.
LONDON: For Roger Morton and his wife living in France - and many other UK expats across the European Union - Brexit is causing the closure of their British banking services. Morton, a 78-year-old retired photographer, laments a letter from Barclaycard, informing him that their credit account will ...
