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

TOKYO] Japan’s government plans to cut sales of super-long bonds by about 10 per cent from its original plan in a rare ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

JAKARTA] Indonesia’s Chandra Daya Investasi (CDI), the investment arm of leading petrochemical producer Chandra Asri Pacific, ...

KUALA LUMPUR] Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said that Malaysia’s negotiations with the US to lower its tariffs on the ...

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

MANILA] The Vietnamese dong fell, dropping below a record low it touched in April, as Asian currencies declined following a ...