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HONG KONG • Secondary school students and retirees joined forces to protest in Hong Kong yesterday, the first of several

MEXICO CITY • Mr Brad Gobright, an acclaimed American free solo climber, has died after falling nearly 305m while rappelling

There will be no Internet trolls in heaven. Rest in peace. This message, left by Facebook user Jin Baek in

SINGAPORE (REUTERS, BLOOMBERG) – Thai billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi’s Thai Beverage Public Co is planning a Singapore initial public offering (IPO)

HONG KONG (REUTERS) – Hong Kong private home prices slipped for a fifth consecutive month in October as the Asian

SEOUL (BLOOMBERG) – Bank of Korea Governor Lee Ju-yeol insisted that Korea’s economy was already passing through its most painful

TOKYO (BLOOMBERG) – Japan Inc’s jobs-for-life system, which for decades has brought stagnant wages and crimped corporate mobility, is withering

SINGAPORE – The High Court on Friday (Nov 29) granted debt-ridden water treatment company Hyflux another two months of reprieve

HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) – Hong Kong Airlines Ltd delayed salaries for much of its staff, saying business has been “severely

SINGAPORE – Bank lending in Singapore rose 0.7 per cent in October from September, reversing from a slight month-on-month contraction

SINGAPORE – Cromwell European Real Estate Investment Trust (CEREIT) has completed the acquisition of a freehold office property in Italy

SINGAPORE – The following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their shares on Friday (Nov 29): Singapore

TOKYO (REUTERS) – Japan’s industrial output slipped at the fastest pace since early last year in October, exposing widening cracks

NEW YORK • Adolf Hitler would have been able to put anti-Semitic advertisements on Facebook had the social network existed

BOSTON • The young woman stood almost frozen, her hands clasped in front of her, as the prosecutor read from

KUALA LUMPUR • Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad took the weekend off for a date with his wife, Tun Dr

TOKYO • Pope Francis arrived yesterday in Japan, the second leg of a week-long Asia trip whose main aim is

A proposed merger of the property arm of sovereign fund Khazanah Nasional with one of Malaysia’s most aggressive but debt-laden

Malaysia’s Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) leader Anwar Ibrahim yesterday opened the PKR Sarawak’s annual convention that was boycotted by most

WASHINGTON • United States President Donald Trump suggested on Friday that he might veto legislation designed to support pro-democracy protesters

HONG KONG • An uneasy calm settled over Hong Kong yesterday as the city prepared to go to the polls

An alleged Chinese spy has defected to Australia and revealed intricate details about China’s intelligence agencies, including names of agents

It began to get cooler at the beginning of this month with the change in season, and there was hope

When a Siberian mine manager vanished three years ago, his sister enlisted the UK’s media, courts and politicians to find

HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) – Bitmain Technologies Ltd’s billionaire founder Wu Jihan announced on Tuesday (Oct 29) the resignation of his