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

MEXICO CITY • An 11-year-old boy armed with two guns entered a school in northern Mexico, shot dead a teacher

WASHINGTON • Boeing’s ousted chief executive officer Dennis Muilenburg is leaving the company with US$62 million (S$84 million) in compensation

KOCHI • The authorities in southern Kerala state yesterday razed two high-rise luxury apartment buildings using controlled implosions in one

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

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

Industrial 3-D printing is at a tipping point, about to go mainstream in a big way. Most executives and many

THE AVERAGE INTEREST rate on a two-year personal loan is 10.7 percent, according to the Federal Reserve. But depending on

NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Wall Street ended solidly higher on Friday (Dec 6) as a strong jobs report and optimism

RIYADH • State-owned oil giant Saudi Aramco’s initial public offering (IPO) will be the biggest in history, but will fall

SPH Reit has obtained A$205 million (S$190.8 million) in secured loans from Australian bank Westpac to finance its proposed acquisition

Regional investors dared to conjure up a measure of optimism yesterday after slight gains on Wall Street and a merciful

Polar Water Distributor has opted for fully recyclable packaging instead of plastic bottles for its new drink. Purewater comes in

Asian governments are starting to do their bit to revive economic growth as central banks gradually pull back on monetary

The Singapore Airshow in February will be fully solar-powered for the first time in its 12-year history. The biennial aviation

South-east Asia is a rapidly growing market for dairy produce, which is why American suppliers, processors and traders are being

TOKYO • Oil prices edged lower yesterday as investors awaited a meeting of Opec (Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)

WASHINGTON • Hiring in the United States jumped last month to its highest level since January as employers shrugged off

All 39 bodies in UK truck tragedy back in Vietnam HANOI • The remains of all 39 Vietnamese found dead

TOKYO • Was it plain coincidence or uncanny timing? On the same day that Japanese opposition lawmakers asked to see

Hokkaido has withdrawn from the stiff race to host one of Japan’s first three integrated resorts (IRs), becoming the first

YANGON • Ardent fans of Ms Aung San Suu Kyi are snapping up spots on US$2,000 (S$2,700) tours to The

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will this month personally defend her country at the United Nations’ top court against

NEW YORK • A US digital currency specialist living in Singapore has been arrested and criminally charged with helping North

KUALA LUMPUR • Malaysia’s Hope Fund has been exhausted as the government used all RM205 million (S$68 million) it raised