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Negotiations are on for a free trade agreement (FTA) between Singapore and the Pacific Alliance, a grouping of four Latin

BAGHDAD • Unesco’s World Heritage Committee has voted to list the sprawling Mesopotamian metropolis of Babylon as a World Heritage

SINGAPORE – Negotiations on the Pacific Alliance-Singapore free trade agreement (FTA) are under way, involving a grouping of four countries

SEOUL • Samsung Electronics’ quarterly profit more than halved after a global industry downturn and trade tensions hammered demand for

WASHINGTON • Job creation roared back to life in the United States last month, wiping away fears of a slowdown

Local shares were treading water yesterday while investors awaited the release of United States jobs figures that could signal where

HONG KONG • Miniso is testing the power of mimicry. The brash Chinese version of minimalist retailer Muji is considering

NEW DELHI • India ordered an investigation on Thursday into alleged mismanagement of funds at Jet Airways, which halted operations

LONDON • Christmas is nearly half a year away, but British retailers are already fretting about the damage a no-deal

The Ministry of Finance (MOF) wants feedback on proposed changes to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Act, including plans

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity this year is easily outpacing the number of such deals struck in previous years. There

SIA Engineering faced queries from the regulator yesterday after its shares shot up on the back of rumours that the

NEW YORK • The US Justice Department, which has been looking into problems with Boeing’s 737 Max jet, has broadened

BRUSSELS/OSAKA • The European Union and South American bloc Mercosur have agreed on a free trade treaty, concluding two decades

PARIS • France’s highest appeals court has said that the life support mechanisms keeping a severely brain-damaged man alive can

HONG KONG • For 53-year-old Perry Dino, a paintbrush and canvas are weapons for opposing the Hong Kong government as

PARIS/MADRID • Hundreds of firefighters yesterday battled to contain wildfires in southern France as a stifling heatwave brought record-breaking temperatures

Heavy fog, seen here obscuring part of Sydney Harbour Bridge, caused delays and cancellations at Australia’s busiest international flight hub

KUALA LUMPUR • An Umno leader has ribbed anti-graft chief Latheefa Koya on why she has so “many stars and

When Mr Cheng (not his real name) needed a 10,000 yuan (S$1,970) short-term loan last year, he decided to borrow

MANILA • A bomb attack that killed eight people at a military base in the southern Philippines was likely a

WASHINGTON • The United States has deployed F-22 stealth fighters to Qatar for the first time, its military said, adding

SINGAPORE – Up to five new digital bank licences will be issued here, paving the way for non-bank players to

LONDON (BLOOMBERG) – Merlin Entertainments Plc, the operator of Legoland resorts and Madame Tussauds wax museums, is close to being

TOKYO (BLOOMBERG) – Two former Nomura Holdings employees have been arrested by Japanese police on suspicion of sexually assaulting a