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Former Chinese premier Li Peng will be cremated in Beijing tomorrow, China’s Xinhua news agency announced yesterday. It added that

Leaders of Indonesia’s main political parties held two closely watched meetings last week, as they jostled for possible leadership positions

WASHINGTON • The United States Supreme Court on Friday handed President Donald Trump a victory by letting his administration redirect

WASHINGTON/PARIS • US President Donald Trump threatened to tax French wines on Friday in retaliation for France’s recent proposal to

WASHINGTON • President Donald Trump announced on Friday that a “landmark” asylum agreement has been reached with Guatemala, as the

LONDON • British Prime Minister Boris Johnson cautioned the European Union yesterday that the “anti-democratic” Irish backstop must be ditched

STOCKHOLM • Nordic countries are experiencing searing temperatures as Europe’s record-breaking heatwave moves north, the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

In the small Australian town of Guyra, local farmers have long been able to rely on a steady and plentiful

Construction has begun on the 3,000 home Beam Park regeneration site in East London which is a joint venture between

SINGAPORE – Smaller firms will get more help to expand overseas under an initiative unveiled on Friday (July 26). The

SINGAPORE – The general offer to privatise mainboard-listed Raffles United is “not fair and not reasonable”, the independent financial adviser

SINGAPORE – Singapore’s hotel room rates are expected to rise by 2 per cent in 2020, following “significant” investments in the

TAIPEI (BLOOMBERG) – Alibaba Group Holding has successfully developed its own microchip, delving deeper into semiconductors just as Washington targets

SINGAPORE – Singapore’s manufacturing slump deepened in June with factory output falling 6.9 per cent in June from a year ago as

SINGAPORE – Unemployment for Singaporeans continued to rise as the pace of employment growth slowed in the second quarter of

SINGAPORE – Epicentre Holdings said on late on Thursday night (July 25) in response to Singapore Exchange queries that it

SINGAPORE – The managers of Eagle Hospitality Trust on Friday (July 26) said they have made “certain improvements” to the

SINGAPORE – Rents of retail space in the central region of Singapore declined 1.5 per cent in the second quarter

SINGAPORE – Singapore share prices declined at the start of trading on Friday (July 26), after Wall Street shares pulled

BRASILIA • Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro attacked the “environmental psychosis” of European leaders concerned over his plans to develop the

HONG KONG • Hong Kong’s embattled leader will not be making further concessions to the city’s protesters, one of her

HONG KONG • Hong Kong police yesterday said they had uncovered a makeshift factory producing high-powered explosives alongside pro-independence leaflets,

WASHINGTON • US President Donald Trump has said he remained at the ready to help South Korea and Japan solve

WASHINGTON • White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow will host a meeting with semiconductor and software executives tomorrow to discuss