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SAN FRANCISCO • A 28-year-old cryptocurrency pioneer, Mr Justin Sun, bid a record US$4.57 million (S$6.3 million) to have lunch

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said yesterday it has imposed a civil penalty of $336,000 on Singaporean Raphael Tham

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SINGAPORE – Funds under the Central Provident Fund Investment Scheme (CPFIS) posted positive returns of 7.82 per cent on average

SINGAPORE – Despite heightened global trade tensions and increasing disruption, 92 per cent of chief executive officers (CEOs) in Singapore

SINGAPORE – Banks must ensure that they deal fairly with their customers and act in their best interests, in a

SINGAPORE – Standard Chartered Bank (StanChart) plans to launch a foreign exchange (FX) e-trading and pricing engine in Singapore, with

HONG KONG (REUTERS) – Logistics property developer ESR Cayman has delayed the launch of what would have been Hong Kong’s

HONG KONG (REUTERS) – Factory activity contracted in most Asian countries last month as an escalating trade war between Washington

SINGAPORE – International law firm Allen & Overy has welcomed Pallavi Gopinath Aney to its Singapore office as a capital

WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The US Transportation Department is expected to provide tentative approval to a bid by American Airlines Group

SEOUL (REUTERS) – Former partners and rivals of Jet Airways Ltd are launching replacement routes and looking for new codeshare

38 hurt in blast at Russian plant MOSCOW • At least 38 people were injured in a blast at a

NEW YORK • A superhuman group of adolescents has broken the Scripps National Spelling Bee, with eight contestants crowned co-champions

One of Australia’s biggest ever public transport projects – a A$7.3 billion (S$7 billion), 36km driverless train line – has

SEOUL • The factories have innocuous names, but analysts say several ostensibly civilian facilities visited by North Korean leader Kim

SEOUL • South Korean troops stationed along the world’s last Cold War frontier have been put on high alert in

For most of their lives spent in a small farming village in North Korea, Ms Eline Park and her family

MECCA • Saudi Arabia’s King Salman yesterday warned that “terrorist” attacks in the Gulf region could imperil global oil supplies,

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has written to Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to express his condolences on the death

VIRGINIA BEACH (Virginia) • A gunman who killed 12 people at a Virginia Beach municipal building before dying in a

NEW DELHI • Organisers of an Indian beauty pageant have come under fire for selecting only fair-skinned women, with human

Ryuichi Iwasaki was a jobless, short-fused man who spent his days locked away in his room, playing video games and

LONDON • US President Donald Trump yesterday threw his weight behind Mr Boris Johnson’s campaign to be Britain’s next prime