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COLOMBO] Sri Lanka’s recovery from its worst economic meltdown, which forced a sovereign default and toppled a president, ...
NEW YORK] The top 25 state and local US pension investment funds suffered an estimated paper loss of US$169 billion in public ...
BEIJING] Beijing on Friday (Apr 11) increased its tariffs on US imports to 125 per cent, hitting back against US President ...
LONDON] Britain’s economy returned to growth with a strong expansion of 0.5 per cent in February, official data showed on ...
TOKYO] Japan’s Nikkei share average slumped on Friday (Apr 11) in a brutal end to a volatile week as investors worried about ...
JAKARTA / HO CHI MINH CITY] South-east Asia’s role as the factory floor for global sportswear and apparel giants is being ...
JAKARTA] Smartphone buyers were cheered by shopkeepers in Jakarta on Friday (Apr 11) after Apple’s latest smartphone went on ...
SINGAPORE] As US President Donald Trump’s eye-watering tariffs triggered a tanking of the world’s markets in the past week, ...
SINGAPORE] As South-east Asia’s population ages, more physical spaces are needed for the healthcare and wellness services ...
TOKYO] As many as 86.7 per cent of Japanese households expect prices to rise a year from now, a quarterly survey showed in ...
HONG KONG] Tesla’s website in China has removed the ‘order now’ option for Model S and Model X electric vehicles (EVs), which ...
ALPHABET’S Google on Thursday laid off hundreds of employees in its platforms and devices unit, which works on Android ...