IT’S hard to think of a more extraordinary business deal than Facebook’s US$19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp in February ...

JAKARTA/SINGAPORE] Singapore-based Grab’s plan to acquire Indonesia’s GoTo to create a dominant South-east Asian ride hailing and food delivery company has run into regulatory hurdles, three sources ...

US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell has rebuffed US President Trump’s demand that something be done to rescue the stock market, as the central bank left interest rates unchanged even as economic ...

KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia said Thursday (Jun 19) it had filed a civil suit against social network Telegram for allegedly disseminating content that could erode trust in public institutions and threaten ...

ZURICH] The Swiss National Bank (SNB) cut its interest rate to zero, seeking to deter investors from pushing up the franc.

ZURICH] Swiss watch exports dropped by almost 10 per cent in May led by a slump in shipments to the US, reversing the ...

MANILA] The Philippine central bank lowered its key interest rate by a quarter point for the second time this year, as widely expected, after inflation remained below target. Read more at The Business ...

SINGAPORE] The Watches & Wonders fair may be over, but it doesn’t mean the watch world has gone quiet since. On the contrary, ...

SINGAPORE] Insurers in Singapore are not following Great Eastern’s footsteps to suspend pre-authorisation certificates for ...

JAKARTA] All flights to and from the Indonesian resort island of Bali resumed on Thursday (Jun 19) after being cancelled or ...

SINGAPORE] National postal service provider Singapore Post (SingPost) has put up 10 Housing & Development Board (HDB) ...

SEOUL] South-east Asia’s biggest budget airlines are pursuing a bruising capacity expansion race despite rising cost ...