When Ms Kim Saxe, director of Innovation Labs at The Nueva School in California, set up a pilot programme called Introduction to Enterpreneurship for her students, she was stunned at […]
SINGAPORE – A 38-year old man was arrested on Wednesday (Jan 13) for the possession and importation of airsoft guns without a valid licence. The guns are replicas that shoot […]
SINGAPORE – One man chose to spend time with his fiancee, another wandered around Geylang and went to work. Both were supposed to be isolated and completing stay-home notices, and […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – Toyota Motor is set to pay a US$180 million (S$238 million) fine for long-standing violations of the Clean Air Act, the US Attorney’s Office in Manhattan […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – With the incoming administration of US President-Elect Joe Biden pushing for more economic stimulus and with multiple coronavirus vaccines already approved, some investors have been wondering whether […]
NEW YORK (AFP) – Wall Street stocks finished a choppy session modestly lower on Thursday (Jan 14) as the market awaited details of President-elect Joe Biden’s stimulus package after digesting […]
SINGAPORE • Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corp plans to close its crude and fuel oil trading desks in Singapore at the end of March and will relocate the trading functions […]
BEIJING • Chinese exports grew by more than expected last month, Customs data showed yesterday, as coronavirus disruptions around the world fuelled demand for Chinese goods even as a stronger […]
SINGAPORE – Driverless road sweepers have been deployed to clean limited areas at one-north, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and CleanTech Park at Jurong Innovation District as part of trials launched […]
SINGAPORE – A man attacked his elderly mother with her walking stick after she refused to disclose the personal identification number (PIN) of her automated teller machine (ATM) card. He […]
Central Kalimantan, INDONESIA, Jan 14, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – In November 2020, Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve conducted training sessions aimed at strengthening the capacity of Farmer Groups (KT). The goal of these sessions […]
SINGAPORE – The Hume MRT station on the Downtown Line will be fitted out and made operational by JSM Construction Group at a contract value of $34.3 million, the Land […]
Good morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Thursday, Jan 14. Trump becomes first US president to be impeached twice All 222 House Democrats and 10 Republicans voted […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Wednesday (Jan 13) asked Tesla to recall 158,000 Model S and Model X vehicles over media control unit […]
LONDON (REUTERS) – Standard Chartered’s investment banking head Simon Cooper has emerged as the internal contender to replace chief executive officer Bill Winters, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday (Jan […]
NEW YORK (Bloomberg) – Affirm Holdings almost doubled in its public market debut, the latest multibillion-dollar technology company to start trading significantly higher than its initial public offering price. Shares […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – As spending remained high amid the coronavirus pandemic, the US budget deficit surged by 61 per cent in the first three months of the 2021 fiscal year, […]
SINGAPORE (BLOOMBERG) – Singapore’s Sea Ltd, the tech start-up that’s become South-east Asia’s most valuable company, has acquired Indonesia’s Bank Kesejahteraan Ekonomi, according to people familiar with the matter. Sea […]
A World Health Organisation (WHO) team of international experts is due to depart Singapore today for the Chinese city of Wuhan, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) […]
