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BITCOIN rose past US$71,000 for the first time since June, bolstered by inflows into dedicated exchange-traded funds (ETFs) as well as speculation about potential outcomes from next week’s…
MOBILE network operator M1 is acquiring a 70 per cent stake in Vietnam-based IT solutions provider, ADG National Investment and Technology Development, for a total purchase consideration…
VENTURE capital (VC) firms are set to make hundreds of millions of US dollars from Stripe’s acquisition of crypto platform Bridge for US$1.1 billion in cash and stock, according to sources…
FORD Motor said on Monday it expects to hit the lower end of its full-year profit guidance, dropping the company’s shares 5 per cent in after-hours trading, as a price war hits the US…
(Bloomberg) -- Albanian prosecutors ordered that containers filled with suspected hazardous industrial waste be seized after the cargo was forced to return to Europe from Southeast Asia.…
The Vietnamese people smuggler emerged, briefly and hesitantly, from the shadows of a scraggly forest close to the northern French coastline. “Move away from the others. Come this way,…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Sudan’s warring military and paramilitary forces are escalating attacks with outside powers “fueling the fire,” which is intensifying the nightmare of hunger and…
CALI, Colombia (AP) — Global efforts to protect the world's plants and animals have made slight progress and some species remain in serious decline, according to two reports released…
APPLE, heralding a “new era” for its devices, started rolling out its first set of Apple Intelligence features and introduced a new 24-inch iMac desktop with a faster, AI-focused M4…
Volkswagen plans to close “at least” three factories in Germany, lay off tens of thousands of staff and downsize remaining plants in the country, the company’s employee group said Monday.…
At least 40 Chadian soldiers have been killed after their base was attacked on Sunday evening, the presidency says. President Mahamat Déby has ordered a counter-mission to track down the…
A SLOWDOWN in the key Chinese market is currently lashing the financial performance of luxury houses but a Chanel executive warned on Monday (Oct 28) it faces an even greater risk from…
It was a bright, sunny afternoon during the recent summer season in Antarctica when the Seabourn Pursuit cruise ship rammed into a sheet of sea ice in Hanusse Bay. The ship plowed forward,…
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said North Korea has sent troops to fight with Russia. He presented the alliance as a sign of weakness, saying Putin could not keep up the invasion alone.…
THE yen hit three-month lows on Monday (Oct 28) as investors figured the loss of a parliamentary majority for Japan’s ruling coalition in weekend elections would slow interest rate rises,…
A ship carrying hundreds of tonnes of possibly toxic industrial waste returned to Albania's largest seaport of Durres on Monday, months after setting sail to dispose of the material in…
NANOFILM Technologies posted a 10 per cent rise in revenue to S$60 million for its third quarter ended Sep 30, 2024, from S$55 million in the same period a year earlier. This was mainly…
The regulatory landscape around packaging in France has undergone transformative changes in recent years. Three key legislative pieces—the AGEC Law, Packaging Law, and European Packaging…
This comes after a dispute between Indian and European regulators, which risks disrupting billions of rupees of trading if unresolved MARKET regulators in France and Germany asked their…
SINOPEC’s third-quarter profits contracted as China’s biggest oil refiner increasingly finds itself under pressure from the nation’s economic woes and embrace of electrified…
Japan’s Nippon Paint has been expanding via several acquisitions in recent years Nippon Paint Holdings announced plans to purchase global chemicals formulator AOC for US$2.3 billion. The…
Japan's prime minister Shigeru Ishiba has vowed to continue ruling the country despite a bruising loss suffered by his party at the general election. The country now faces an uncertain…
The Council for Board Diversity says its interim numbers show that women’s participation on the boards of these companies has trebled to 25.3%, from 7.5 per cent in 2013 THE top 100…
LULU Retail Holdings, which runs one of the Middle East’s biggest hypermarket chains, said on Monday (Oct 28) it aims to raise up to 5.27 billion dirhams (S$1.9 billion) in what is set to…
