HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) – It took just 28 Chinese characters on an obscure social media platform to ignite a controversy that’s rattled the country’s tech industry. Meituan CEO Wang Xing […]
SEOUL (BLOOMBERG) – Last month, Hyun Jung-a boarded a flight from South Korea’s Incheon Airport. Around two hours later, she was back in the same airport and loading up on […]
SYDNEY (REUTERS) – Singapore Technologies (ST) Engineering and Temasek Holdings are setting up a 50:50 joint venture for freighter aircraft leasing to capture strong demand for converted passenger planes as e-commerce and air […]
SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) – Singapore shares fell for the second straight day alongside losses across most Asian bourses on Tuesday (May 11) following a tech rout on Wall Street […]
SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) – Real estate agency PropNex on Tuesday (May 11) posted a first-quarter net profit of $14.8 million, nearly double the $7.6 million the year before. This […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – Amazon.com sold bonds to refinance debt and buy back stock, as cheap borrowing costs prove too tempting to resist even for a company with tens of […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Cryptocurrency ethereum climbed to a new peak for a third straight day on Monday (May 10) on continued optimism about further growth in decentralised finance or […]
NEW YORK (AFP) – Tech shares were hammered Monday (May 10) and the Dow finished modestly lower to snap a three-day streak of records and retreat from an intraday jump […]
SINGAPORE – Singapore cannot afford to close its borders completely to foreign workers as its economy will be affected, warned the country’s apex business chamber. Without access to sufficient manpower, […]
TORONTO (AFP, REUTERS) – SpaceX will launch a satellite to the moon next year funded entirely with the cryptocurrency dogecoin, Canadian company Geometric Energy Corporation (GEC), which will lead the […]
SINGAPORE (BLOOMBERG) – A rally in one of Asia’s best-performing stock markets is stalling amid rising Covid-19 cases at home and a rethink of the global reflation trade. Second only […]
SINGAPORE -Novena Global Healthcare co-founder Terence Loh is entangled in yet another legal battle while he tries to devise a repayment plan for $70 million in bank debt. Mr Loh, […]
SINGAPORE – The protracted Covid-19 pandemic is no longer just a disruption to the way we work but has transformed permanently the world of work. As we distil the learnings […]
SINGAPORE – Inflation and control of the pandemic remained major overhangs during the past week as equity markets continued to plod higher, supported by a flush of liquidity and low […]
(BLOOMBERG) – Working from home for more than a year may revolutionise some parts of business but I think most people in the United States will be back at their […]
(NYTIMES) – Google is creating a post-pandemic workplace that will accommodate employees who have got used to working from home over the past year and don’t want to be in […]
SINGAPORE – Civil servant Germaine Wong spends about $10,000 a year on Integrated Shield Plan premiums for herself and five other members of her family. Mrs Wong, 46, is pleased […]
(NYTIMES) – After Ms Maria Turner’s minivan was totalled in an accident a dozen years ago, she grew impatient waiting for the insurance company to process the claim. One night, […]
(NYTIMES) – Something strange is happening to the exhausted, millennial workers of America. After a year spent hunched over their MacBooks, enduring back-to-back Zooms in between sourdough loaves and Peloton […]
NEW YORK (AFP) – Major Wall Street indices finished at fresh records on Friday (May 7) after disappointing US jobs data fuelled confidence of continued fiscal and monetary support as […]
