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LONDON • Singing patriotic songs and waving Union Jacks, thousands of Britons flocked to a muddy patch of grass outside

PARIS • London St Pancras and Paris Gare du Nord stations were on Friday united by dark humour and wistful

Democrats are far less confident of winning back the White House in November than the Republicans who, by a large

Vaulting from being a commoner to the queen of Malaysia’s richest state Selangor is something few could imagine, but life

Pompeo visits Belarus in bid to normalise ties MINSK • US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo travelled to Belarus yesterday,

WASHINGTON • The Trump administration said it will add six new countries to its travel ban, part of an election-year

CAIRO • Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas yesterday announced a cutting of all ties with Israel and the United States, including

NEW YORK • A Belgian court has acquitted three doctors who had been charged with manslaughter by poisoning, in a

It’s always interesting to see who will take charge of tomorrow’s design scene—and French designers were in the spotlight this

PARIS/LONDON/WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Airbus bribed public officials and hid the payments as part of a pattern of worldwide corruption, prosecutors

NEW YORK (AFP) – Wall Street stocks tumbled with other leading equity markets on Friday (Jan 31) on mounting fears

The spread of the Wuhan coronavirus was front and centre in the minds of investors this week, and concerns are

Uncertainty over how and when Brexit – the United Kingdom’s formal exit from the European Union – will happen prompted

The Singapore bourse yesterday saw its first trading debut of the year, with Resources Global Development (RGD) opening on Catalist

Optimism in the semiconductor industry gave a positive flip to manufacturers’ outlook of business conditions in the first half of

BEIJING • The first official indicator of the Chinese economy this year signalled that the nation’s factories were flatlining even

Bank lending in Singapore was flat in December, dipping 0.05 per cent to $692.4 billion from $692.73 billion a month

Even as the private residential market appears to be stabilising in line with economic fundamentals, developers’ concerns over the upcoming

Distressed water treatment firm Hyflux has found a new legal team after WongPartnership applied to discharge itself earlier this week

While no one has a crystal ball, it looks like 2020 is shaping up to be a good year for

SINGAPORE – Firms should defer non-essential travel to China and avoid Hubei province altogether, said Enterprise Singapore (ESG) on Wednesday

BANGKOK (REUTERS) – Thailand’s finance ministry on Wednesday (Jan 29) cut its 2020 economic growth forecast to 2.8 per cent

SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) – Freehold condominium Wing Fong Mansions in Geylang has been launched for collective sale with a

SINGAPORE (BLOOMBERG) – Singapore’s sovereign wealth firm GIC has bought a substantial stake in Myanmar’s Yoma Bank as the country

SINGAPORE (REUTERS) – PetroChina’s Singapore bunkering unit moved up a notch to be the top marine fuel supplier in the