The Singapore government will implement segregation of World Economic Forum Special Annual Meeting attendees from the local population — among other measures — in view of...
JAKARTA, INDONESIA — Countries around the world are busy buying COVID-19 vaccines, giving rise to the hope that the pandemic will end and that the economy...
by AFP bureaus Whether in Paris, Kuala Lumpur or California, gig economy workers fear they can no longer survive on meagre earnings from jobs that leave them increasingly vulnerable....
Video-conferencing platform Zoom announced on Wednesday (16 December) that it will set up a new research and development (R&D) centre in Singapore where it will hire...
Singapore’s “chronic“ long-term economic underperformance requires the country to reform its economic strategy rather than just moving through endless existing rounds of “consultative reaffirmation”, said former...
Britain on Thursday (10 Dec) signed a free-trade deal with Singapore, giving it a key foothold in Asia as it seeks to forge its own path...
by Allison Jackson Daniel Auminto lost his job and then his home when the coronavirus pandemic sent the Philippines into lockdown. Now he and his family...
At least three HSBC accounts related to a Hong Kong church that helped pro-democracy protesters during last year’s unrest have been frozen, its pastor said Tuesday,...
The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has published the Labour Force in Singapore Advance Release 2020 on Thursday (3 Dec), depicting the impact of COVID-19 that layered...
by Vishal Manve India’s economy contracted 7.5 percent between July and September, performing the poorest among major advanced and emerging economies and entering a technical recession...