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WASHINGTON • The US began collecting 25 per cent tariffs on many Chinese goods arriving at US seaports yesterday morning,

SAN FRANCISCO • When Silicon Valley looks west to China, it sees many things. More than a billion hungry consumers.

WASHINGTON • The US will end preferential trade treatment for India from Wednesday. Announcing this late on Friday, in a

SINGAPORE – Europe-focused real estate investment trust IReit Global’s first quarter distribution per unit (DPU) was 0.89 euro cent, down

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SINGAPORE – Frasers Centrepoint Trust (FCT) is looking to acquire a one third interest in Waterway Point, a large suburban

SINGAPORE (BLOOMBERG) – Vertex Venture Holdings raised US$230 million (S$314.8 million) in the first close of its fourth South-east Asian

SINGAPORE – Fitch Solutions Macro Research said 2019 will be a challenging year for the banking sector given that global

KUALA LUMPUR (BLOOMBERG) – Malaysia’s economic growth slowed in the first quarter, dragged down by weaker trade and investment in

TOKYO (REUTERS) – Asian shares fell on Thursday (May 16) after the United States hit Chinese telecoms giant Huawei with

SINGAPORE – Catalist-listed offshore and marine engineering firm, EMS Energy, on Thursday (May 16) said it has executed a definitive

KUALA LUMPUR (BLOOMBERG) – DXN Holdings Bhd’s owners are exploring a sale of the Malaysian health supplement producer, in a

SYDNEY (REUTERS) – Australia’s unemployment rate rose again in April to the highest in eight months while full-time jobs fell,

In his 1980s and 1990s heyday, Bollywood actor Sunny Deol was famed for portraying angry men with a heart of

JAKARTA • The chairman of Indonesia’s opposition National Mandate Party (PAN), Mr Zulkifli Hasan, appears to have broken ranks with

Malaysia’s ruling pact Pakatan Harapan (PH) yesterday won its first by-election this year in Sabah, breaking the coalition’s streak of

WASHINGTON • US President Donald Trump has said he does not consider North Korea’s recent launch of short-range ballistic missiles

ISIS claims it has set up province in India NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR • The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)

TOKYO • Japan is pushing the limits of rail travel as it begins testing the fastest shinkansen bullet train, capable

ISLAMABAD • At least one person has been killed after three gunmen stormed a five-star hotel in the south-western Pakistani

BANGKOK • The biggest obstacle to releasing two imprisoned Reuters reporters in Myanmar was not the country’s military, diplomats and

WASHINGTON • The United States Justice Department has charged former Fugees rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel and wealthy Malaysian businessman Low

HONG KONG • Anger over Hong Kong’s controversial plans to allow extraditions to the Chinese mainland boiled over in the

HANOI: A Vietnamese court has jailed two activists on charges of publishing damaging anti-state propaganda about the communist-run country, state