US asset manager BlackRock, Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings and China Construction Bank have agreed to set up a wealth management joint venture in China, said people with direct knowledge of the matter.
China's industrial output is expected to grow around 5.6per cent in 2019, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Monday.
SINGAPORE: A property agent has been fined S$27,000 for altering lease agreements to collect additional commissions, the Council for Estate Agencies (CEA) said in a statement on Monday (Dec 23). George Peh Meng Woon of KF Property Network has also had his CEA registration suspended for 10 months ......
BEIJING: China will lower tariffs on products ranging from frozen pork and avocado to some type of semiconductors next year, the finance ministry said, as Beijing looks to boost imports amid a slowing economy and a trade war with the United States. Next year, China will implement temporary import...
Asian markets idled near 18-month highs on Monday as volumes weakened ahead of the Christmas holiday break and investors squared off their positions, taking home hefty gains made earlier this month.
It is shaping up to be a big year for buyouts in Asia. There's over US$250 billion of capital committed to private equity in the region, according to research outfit Preqin. KKR plans to raise a fund that would be bigger than its flagship US one....
It is shaping up to be a big year for buyouts in Asia. There's over US$250 billion of capital committed to private equity in the region, according to research outfit Preqin. KKR plans to raise a fund that would be bigger than its flagship US one....
Under-fire Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday rejected calls for "reckless" and "job-destroying" cuts to the country's vast coal industry in the face of a deadly climate-fuelled bushfire crisis.
Oil prices were mostly steady on Monday after three weeks of gains amid optimism the United States and China were close to signing a trade deal to end a tariff war, with President Donald Trump saying an agreement would be signed "very shortly".
While Singapore contributes less than 0.1 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, the world can no longer afford the blame game and finger-pointing, says Yale-NUS’ Angel Hsu.
