Foxconn chairman hands over reins ahead of presidential bid

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


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China won't allow Hong Kong leader to step down despite mass unrest: HK official

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

In the age of online maps, who needs street directories anymore?

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Hong Kong backs down on extradition Bill after protests

HONG KONG: Hong Kong's embattled leader Carrie Lam on Saturday (Jun 15) suspended a controversial extradition Bill that sparked protests and ... | Continue reading


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

GrabCar fined for unauthorised disclosure of data in 120K marketing emails

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


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India heatwave temperatures pass 50 degrees Celsius

NEW DELHI: Temperatures passed 50 degrees Celsius in northern India as an unrelenting heatwave triggered warnings of water shortages and heatstroke. | Continue reading


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Singapore’s factory activity shrinks for first time since 2016

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

North Korea swine flu outbreak puts South on edge

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Vietnam swine fever cull surges, 1.7M pigs dead

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Hong Kong and Shenzhen showed what quality early childhood education looks like

Educators in early childhood centres in China have demonstrated curriculum leadership and that has made the difference, say SUSS’ Dr Yang Weipeng ... | Continue reading


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

In pictures: First look at the revamped Singapore Funan mall

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Personal data compromised after Singapore Red Cross hack

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 4 years ago

Shopify loss widens as expenses soar

Canadian e-commerce software maker Shopify Inc reported a wider quarterly loss on Tuesday, as costs surged nearly 50 percent. | Continue reading


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

AI-Driven Online News Site: Observer+ Taps Automation to Serve Up Fast Food News

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

Amazon, Microsoft chosen to compete for Pentagon cloud computing contract

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

ECB will ask Deutsche Bank to raise fresh funds for merger: source

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

Euro zone's triple-A bond drought persists after ECB steps away

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

As Google races ahead, German carmakers look to go faster on autonomous driving

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

Chinese company exit scam it's startup in Singapore

SINGAPORE: Former employees from bike-sharing company Ofo, who had their contracts terminated this week, said that the firm’s operations have ... | Continue reading


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

HIV-positive status of 14,200 people leaked online

SINGAPORE: The HIV-positive status of 14,200 people – along with confidential information such as their identification numbers and contact details ... | Continue reading


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

Singapore SingHealth COI Report: Dealing with IT Security Incidents

SINGAPORE: Seven priority and nine additional recommendations have been put forward by the Committee of Inquiry (COI) investigating the SingHealth ... | Continue reading


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

Huawei sues US firm InterDigital in China over patent practices

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

Germany gives nod to US$8B tunnel link to Denmark

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

Commentary: The rise of the rock-star engineer in Singapore

Engineering is about solving problems and removing roadblocks, skills that are essential in building a smart city, says Johnson Controls' Ken Lim. | Continue reading


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

China to punish IP infringers after US trade truce

BEIJING: China announced Tuesday (Dec 4) stiffer punishments for serious infringers of intellectual property - including barring them from buying ... | Continue reading


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

Red Hat jumps, IBM shares dip on cloud mega-merger

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

Swamped with plastic waste: Malaysia struggles as global scrap piles up

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

British technology company Dyson to build electric car in Singapore

British technology company Dyson said on Tuesday it would build its electric car in Singapore. | Continue reading


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

China to launch lunar lighting in outer space

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

Commentary: Blockchain has been a lie all this while

Far from ushering in a utopia, blockchain has given rise to a familiar form of economic hell, says Nouriel Roubini. | Continue reading


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

Vietnam seizes eight tonnes of ivory, pangolin scales

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

Tencent loses US$20B in value after China attacks myopia with gaming curbs

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

How Uber, valued at billions, was sent packing by a startup in Singapore

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

Apple Singapore Hacked

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

Singapore health system hit by ‘serious breach of personal data’ in cyberattack

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

Japan's growing plutonium stockpile fuels fears

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

AI ambulances and robot doctors: China seeks to ease hospital strain

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

Powerful, cheap and Cambodian: Computer dreams being born in the kingdom

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

Toyota to Invest US$1B in Southeast Asia's Grab

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

Toyota to Invest US$1B in Southeast Asia's Grab

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

US President Trump, North Korean Leader Kim Meet at Historic Singapore Summit

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

Airbnb says forced to cancel bookings under new Japan law

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

Journalist who faked death – I didn't want to share Skripal's fate

Ukraine on Thursday defended the action of its state security services in faking the death of a Russian dissident journalist after international ... | Continue reading


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

US staffer suffers brain injury after 'sound' incident in China

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

Deep-sea 'aliens' unearthed in Singapore-Indonesia expedition

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 5 years ago

ECB inspectors find 10 billion euro problem in banks' loan book

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


@channelnewsasia.com | 6 years ago