Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou said on Friday he will hand over the running of the world's largest electronics contract manufacturer to a new ... | Continue reading
Beijing will not let Hong Kong's leader, Carrie Lam, step down even if she wanted to, a senior city government official close to her said on ... | Continue reading
While street directories face obsolescence as navigational tools, supporters say current editions are still some of the most up-to-date sources of ... | Continue reading
HONG KONG: Hong Kong's embattled leader Carrie Lam on Saturday (Jun 15) suspended a controversial extradition Bill that sparked protests and ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: GrabCar has been ordered to pay a financial penalty of S$16,000 after it sent out more than 120,000 marketing emails to customers ... | Continue reading
NEW DELHI: Temperatures passed 50 degrees Celsius in northern India as an unrelenting heatwave triggered warnings of water shortages and heatstroke. | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: Activity in Singapore’s factories contracted in May for the first time in 32 months amid escalating trade tensions between the United ... | Continue reading
SEOUL: South Korean troops stationed along the world's last Cold War frontier have been put on high alert in the face of a new infiltration threat ... | Continue reading
HANOI: Vietnam culled a further 500,000 pigs over the past two weeks to tackle an outbreak of African swine fever, taking the total killed so far ... | Continue reading
Educators in early childhood centres in China have demonstrated curriculum leadership and that has made the difference, say SUSS’ Dr Yang Weipeng ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: Finishing touches are being put on the redeveloped Funan mall, which closed for a revamp three years ago in July 2016. The nondescript ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: The personal data of 4,297 people has been compromised after part of the Singapore Red Cross' (SRC) website was hacked, according to a ... | Continue reading
Canadian e-commerce software maker Shopify Inc reported a wider quarterly loss on Tuesday, as costs surged nearly 50 percent. | Continue reading
The public face fronting the relatively new website is SMRT Feedback co-founder Azly J. Nor, but the true identities of the “Council” behind the ... | Continue reading
Amazon and Microsoft have been selected to continue competing for Pentagon cloud computing services as part of a contract that could be worth some ... | Continue reading
The European Central Bank will ask Deutsche Bank to raise fresh funds before it gives the go-ahead for a merger with a state-backed rival, a ... | Continue reading
High-grade euro zone debt remains scarce even though the European Central Bank has stopped its huge purchases of new bonds, intensifying concerns ... | Continue reading
Germany's top carmakers including BMW and Volkswagen are looking at ways to speed up development of the next generation of self-driving cars, ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: Former employees from bike-sharing company Ofo, who had their contracts terminated this week, said that the firm’s operations have ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: The HIV-positive status of 14,200 people – along with confidential information such as their identification numbers and contact details ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: Seven priority and nine additional recommendations have been put forward by the Committee of Inquiry (COI) investigating the SingHealth ... | Continue reading
InterDigital Inc on Monday said Huawei Technologies Co Ltd filed a lawsuit against it in China, alleging the U.S. technology firm had not licensed ... | Continue reading
COPENHAGEN: German authorities on Friday gave their approval to an US$8 billion (6.30 billion pounds) rail and road tunnel linking Denmark and ... | Continue reading
Engineering is about solving problems and removing roadblocks, skills that are essential in building a smart city, says Johnson Controls' Ken Lim. | Continue reading
BEIJING: China announced Tuesday (Dec 4) stiffer punishments for serious infringers of intellectual property - including barring them from buying ... | Continue reading
IBM Corp's US$34 billion deal to buy Red Hat Inc drove shares in the small but fast-growing software maker 50 percent higher on Monday, ... | Continue reading
Hundreds of sacks filled with plastic waste from the United States, Britain, South Korea and Spain spill onto the streets of an industrial zone in ... | Continue reading
British technology company Dyson said on Tuesday it would build its electric car in Singapore. | Continue reading
China is planning to launch its own 'artificial moon' by 2020 to replace streetlamps and lower electricity costs in urban areas, state media ... | Continue reading
Far from ushering in a utopia, blockchain has given rise to a familiar form of economic hell, says Nouriel Roubini. | Continue reading
HANOI: Vietnamese authorities have seized more than eight metric tonnes of pangolin scales and ivory in one of the Southeast Asian country's ... | Continue reading
Tencent Holdings' market value slumped by around US$20 billion on Friday after China intensified a crackdown on online gaming citing rising levels ... | Continue reading
Looking to expand in Southeast Asia, the ride-hailing giant didn’t expect such a robust resistance from Grab. Inside the Storm looks at what ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: Dozens of Apple customers have had hundreds of dollars each drained from their bank accounts, after being billed for purchases they did ... | Continue reading
A total of 1.5 million SingHealth patients’ non-medical personal data were stolen, while 160,000 of those had their dispensed medicines’ records ... | Continue reading
Japan has amassed enough plutonium to make 6,000 atomic bombs as part of a programme to fuel its nuclear plants, but concern is growing that the ... | Continue reading
In the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, an ambulance speeds through traffic on a wave of green lights, helped along by an artificial intelligence ... | Continue reading
PHNOM PENH: When Thul Rithy first moved to Phnom Penh as a young man he lived in a simple pagoda with monks and exercised his keen thirst for ... | Continue reading
Toyota Motor Corp has agreed to invest US$1 billion in Southeast Asian ride-hailing firm Grab as a lead investor in the company's ongoing ... | Continue reading
Toyota Motor Corp has agreed to invest US$1 billion in Southeast Asian ride-hailing firm Grab as a lead investor in the company's ongoing ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: The leaders of the United States and North Korea met for the first time in Singapore on Tuesday (Jun 12). Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un ... | Continue reading
TOKYO: Rental site Airbnb said Thursday (Jun 7) it had been forced by Japanese authorities to cancel thousands of reservations ahead of a new law ... | Continue reading
Ukraine on Thursday defended the action of its state security services in faking the death of a Russian dissident journalist after international ... | Continue reading
The US embassy in China issued a health alert Wednesday after a US government employee experienced an "abnormal" sound and suffered a mild brain ... | Continue reading
At least 12 species of crabs, prawns and lobsters collected from the deep seas in West Java are new to science. Another 40 are new records for Indonesia. Here are some of these strange and fascinating finds. | Continue reading
European Central Bank inspectors found shortcomings and miscalculations worth more than 10 billion euros when going through euro zone banks' loan books last year, the ECB said on Monday. | Continue reading