HONG KONG: Hong Kong stocks rose by more than 3 per cent on Tuesday (May 17) afternoon following news of Shanghai authorities saying that the locked-down city will gradually reopen businesses. The H… [+883 chars]
WASHINGTON: Children as young as five in the United States will now be able to receive a booster dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, the nation's health authorities announced on Tuesday (May 17). The… [+1677 chars]
New home sales seem to have stabilised after cooling measures were implemented more than four months ago, said Ms Christine Sun, senior vice president of research and analytics at OrangeTee & Tie… [+1312 chars]
SINGAPORE: A foreign journalist was on Tuesday (May 17) fined S$6,500 for doing freelance work without a valid work pass. Calum Arthur Alistair Stuart, 36, pleaded guilty to one charge under the Emp… [+4513 chars]
NEW YORK: Billionaire Elon Musk said on Tuesday (May 17) that his purchase of Twitter would not go ahead unless he was given assurances on the bots that he says plague the platform, further complicat… [+2800 chars]
TOKYO: Japan's economy fell for the first time in two quarters in the first three months of the year as COVID-19 curbs hit the service sector and the Ukraine war and surging commodity prices created … [+1738 chars]
Allianz SE announces that its indirect subsidiary Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC (AGI U.S.) today has entered into settlements with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exch… [+2292 chars]
SINGAPORE: China's zero-COVID policy will hold back a full air travel recovery in the Asia-Pacific region, a top airline industry group warned on Tuesday (May 17), adding to calls for Beijing to ease… [+1677 chars]
MUMBAI: Shares in Life Insurance Corp of India (LIC) slid 6 per cent in their market debut on Tuesday (May 17), a fresh setback for the state-owned giant after its IPO, while record-breaking, raised … [+2689 chars]
Singapore-based venture firm Jungle Ventures is digging deeper into Southeast Asia and India with the close of its fourth fund. Fund IV totals $600 million, with $450 million for new investments and … [+2841 chars]
People walk past the US Treasury Department building in Washington, D.C., the United States, May 21, 2020. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua) China trimmed its holdings of US Treasury bonds for a fourth st… [+4426 chars]
Following Netflixs announcement last month that it lost subscribers for the first time in a decade, the streaming behemoth said Tuesday that it was laying off some 150 people across the company, prim… [+959 chars]
