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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)

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

This has been a strange summer in Sydney. For weeks, Australia’s largest city has been surrounded by ferocious blazes. Though

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WASHINGTON • Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House will take steps this week to transmit the articles of impeachment against

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

WASHINGTON • It was wonderful news: Researchers reported last week the largest-ever one-year decline in the US cancer death rate