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MUMBAI (BLOOMBERG) – Barclays is embarking on a plan to cut about 100 senior jobs, mostly in trading roles across

NEW DELHI (REUTERS) – Mobile operators including Vodafone Idea and Singtel associate Bharti Airtel suffered a blow on Thursday (Jan

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SINGAPORE (BLOOMBERG) – Morgan Stanley plans to add dozens of staff at its wealth business in Hong Kong and Singapore

SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) – The Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) is investigating Ju Sheng International Consultancy Services for possible breaches

BEIJING (REUTERS) – Temasek Holdings and Shanghai-based private equity firm Trustbridge Partners have held talks with WeWork China over increasing

SINGAPORE – The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has imposed a civil penalty of $200,000 on Mr Lim Soon Fang

TOKYO (BLOOMBERG) – Nissan Motor has revealed more details of an exhaustive probe into Carlos Ghosn, a week after its

KUALA LUMPUR (BLOOMBERG) – Malaysia’s sovereign fund and Norwegian telco Telenor have revived talks on a potential deal involving Axiata

SAN FRANCISCO (REUTERS) – Four companies sued Facebook Inc in US federal court on Thursday (Jan 16) for alleged anticompetitive

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NEW YORK (REUTERS) – The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones indexes set new record highs on Wednesday (Jan 15)

DUBAI • Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said, one of the Middle East’s longest-serving rulers who maintained the country’s neutrality in

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India is known for its slick social-media campaigns and public-relations prowess in always

LONDON • Prince Harry’s wife Meghan has returned to Canada following the couple’s bombshell announcement that they were quitting their

BELFAST • The main Irish nationalist and pro-British unionist parties in Northern Ireland have agreed to return to a power-sharing

Business is brisk at Mr Aye Saung’s souvenir shop in downtown Yangon’s Bogyoke Aung San market, where candy-coloured tubs of

LONDON • A British female news presenter who was paid one-sixth of the fee earned by a male presenter on

Rush’s star drummer dies of brain cancer LOS ANGELES • Neil Peart, the drummer and lyricist of Canadian rock group

BANGKOK • Thailand’s House of Representatives passed the budget for the 2020 financial year yesterday after four days of intense

A plastic bag ban that came into effect last week to force shoppers to go green is threatening to sink

SEOUL • North Korea has received birthday greetings to its leader Kim Jong Un from US President Donald Trump, but

Imagine living in a block where home is an apartment that is half below ground and the toilet cistern is

SYDNEY • Bush fire conditions eased in Australia yesterday after a gruelling night for firefighters, with the authorities saying they

WASHINGTON • Veteran activist and actress Jane Fonda was joined by fellow Hollywood stars Joaquin Phoenix, Susan Sarandon and Martin