NAYPYITAW: Myanmar‘s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the final appeal of two Reuters journalists and upheld seven-year prison sentences for
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CDL boss Kwek Leng Beng’s family buys 2 units at luxury condo Boulevard 88
SINGAPORE (BLOOMBERG) – Billionaire property developer Kwek Leng Beng’s latest luxury condo in Singapore has seen robust demand since its
GIC-backed Luckin Coffee, China’s Starbucks challenger, files for US IPO
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – Luckin Coffee Inc, the ambitious startup that is challenging Starbucks in the race to dominate China’s
Most financial sector jobs will be impacted by technology so employees must reskill: IBF and MAS
SINGAPORE – Most jobs in the financial sector will be merged or changed because technology will render their repetitive tasks
CapitaLand sells self-storage business StorHub for $179.5m
SINGAPORE – Capitaland has sold a group of companies that own and manage its self-storage business, StorHub, for an aggregate
Sri Lanka church blasts retaliation for New Zealand mosque attack?
WASHINGTON: Indian intelligence agencies forewarned Sri Lanka about impending attacks on churches and the Indian mission in Colombo, according to
Sri Lanka explosions: Did global jihad meet local factors?
In the darkest days of Sri Lanka’s quarter century of convulsions that ended with the battlefield deaths of Tamil Tigers
Danish billionaire loses three children in attacks
COPENHAGEN • Three of the four children of Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen were killed in the Easter Sunday attacks
Sri Lanka probes foreign links to suspected group in bomb attacks
Sri Lanka, in mourning after Sunday’s suicide attacks, remained on tenterhooks yesterday as reports of more blasts unnerved residents and
US ends sanction waivers for oil imports from Iran
LONDON/WASHINGTON • United States President Donald Trump has decided to eliminate all waivers issued to eight economies allowing them to
Conditional warning appears ‘unusual’ in NUS case: Lawyers
The decision by the police to give a young man who filmed a female undergraduate in the shower a conditional
Great Eastern suspends adviser who allegedly filmed student
Insurer Great Eastern Singapore has suspended a financial adviser who is allegedly the National University of Singapore (NUS) undergraduate who
NUS sexual misconduct case: Need to take a tough stand and send strong signal, says Ong Ye Kung
Education Minister Ong Ye Kung has weighed in on the mounting controversy over how a sexual misconduct case at the
Sri Lanka declares state of emergency
Sri Lanka has invoked emergency powers beginning from midnight (local time) yesterday as security forces probe Sunday’s devastating series of
NUS’ penalties inadequate, says minister
Education Minister Ong Ye Kung has said the penalties meted out by the National University of Singapore (NUS) in a
Plans for new court to ease load on Court of Appeal
A new appellate court could be introduced to ease the burden on the current Court of Appeal, which has seen
End of Iran waiver may ignite fuel prices in India, upset govt math
NEW DELHI: The US refusal to extend sanction waiver on Iran oil sales will make life harder for consumers in
Trump calls Sri Lanka PM to express condolences over attacks
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump called Sri Lanka‘s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday to express condolences over the killing
Donald Trump puts India in a fix over Iran oil and regional strategy
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration on Monday put India in a tight energy fix and strategic tangle, ending the waiver that
Wife, sister of Shangri-La Hotel bomber killed in separate suicide blast: Lanka police
COLOMBO: The wife and sister of the suicide bomber at the Shangri-La Hotel in Sri Lanka were also killed in
Egypt votes for a final day on extending el-Sissi’s rule
CAIRO: Egyptians are voting for a third and final day on constitutional amendments that would allow President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to
Saudi Arabia will ‘make up’ for oil supply after new Iran sanctions: Trump
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said Monday US ally Saudi Arabia will help to make up easily for any shortfalls in
Cambodia and Thailand reconnected by rail after 45 years
POIPET (CAMBODIA): A railway reconnecting Cambodia and Thailand was officially inaugurated on Monday in a bid to slash travel times
Saudis grapple with ever-shifting ‘red lines’
RIYADH: Two Saudis vent their opinions publicly. One is detained, the other is acquitted after the right to free speech
Iran, Pakistan to set up border ‘reaction force’ after attacks
TEHRAN: Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani announced on Monday that he and visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan agreed to set