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LONDON • Britain will issue blue passports next month for the first time in almost three decades, following its departure

KABUL • A week-long partial truce took hold across Afghanistan yes-terday, with jubilant civilians dancing in the streets as the

JAKARTA • A joint search and rescue team reported yesterday that eight students had died during a flash flood that

KUALA LUMPUR • Malaysia’s Employees Provident Fund (EPF), the country’s largest pension fund, has announced a 5.45 per cent dividend

Malaysian opposition party Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) has threatened to organise a big rally if the government retains Attorney-General Tommy

A plan by the Selangor state government – which is controlled by the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition – to turn

DUBAI • Candidates affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards looked on course to win a parliamentary majority yesterday, reportedly leading the

RIYADH • Leading world economies must unite to deal with aggressive “tax optimisation” by global digital giants like Google, Amazon

NEW YORK • Billionaire investor Warren Buffett kicked his stock buyback programme into high gear, spending US$2.2 billion (S$3 billion)

Singapore will have to develop new competitive advantages as it aspires to be a global node and add value to

Frasers Property yesterday announced that Frasers Property Retail has entered into an agreement to acquire property manager AsiaMalls Management for

Manufacturers in Singapore had been waiting for factories in China to reopen yesterday after the extended Chinese New Year shutdown

Although the Asian semiconductor industry has shown signs of a strong recovery for much of the past quarter, this could

Britain is looking at the digital economy as an area in which it can strengthen its relationship with Singapore as

SHANGHAI • Just as it looked like Beijing was starting to get a handle on its regional banking crisis, a

All 1,200 employees of insurer Prudential Singapore will be able to learn how to better use data in their daily

BEIJING • China’s central bank will issue loans totalling 300 billion yuan (S$59.7 billion) via its re-lending programme as part

The average age at which careers stagnate is seen to be 48, according to a recent survey done in Singapore.

Britain takes US concerns about its use of Huawei equipment seriously but is confident a trade deal with the United

Millions of voters, including a 111-year-old woman, turned up to cast their ballots yesterday in the Indian capital, Delhi, where

GENEVA/BUENOS AIRES • A research base in the Antarctic has recorded the highest temperature ever for the continent amid rising

WASHINGTON • Fireflies are under threat globally, with familiar hazards such as habitat loss and pesticides compounded by another peril

ROME • When scientist Peter Soroye first saw that the figures showing the estimated bumblebee populations in North America had

MANCHESTER (New Hampshire) • Iowa caucuses winner Pete Buttigieg and runner-up Bernie Sanders came under sharp and sustained criticism in