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BEIRUT – Data rights groups are warning of privacy violations and risks to vulnerable communities after Abu Dhabi deployed scanners at border crossings, malls and other public locations…

SINGAPORE – After gyrating between fears over the increasing worldwide Covid-19 outbreaks and euphoria over signs of a sequential economic recovery, the market surged towards the end of…

SYDNEY – Asian shares edged lower on Tuesday (June 29 on concerns new coronavirus outbreaks in the region could undercut an economic recovery even as robust momentum in the United States…

HONG KONG – HSBC Holdings apologised to customers in Hong Kong after an update to its online and mobile banking terms stoked fears over overseas access to its services in the financial hub.…

NEW YORK – Wall Street closed lower on Wednesday (May 12) with the S&P suffering its biggest one-day percentage drop since February, as inflation data fuelled concerns over whether…

HONG KONG – Tencent Holdings shares fell a second day on concern regulators are now turning their sights on Mr Pony Ma’s business empire, fuelling a US$62 billion (S$83.5 billion) wipeout…

TOKYO – Asian stocks extended their rebound from a two-month low on Thursday (March 11) after a report on US consumer prices calmed concerns about inflation and lifted the Dow Jones…

RIYADH – Political reform, racism, transgender rights – the audio app Clubhouse has unleashed unbridled debates about topics deemed dangerously sensitive in Saudi Arabia, but surveillance…

NEW YORK – Wall Street stocks finished little changed on Friday (Feb 19), concluding a choppy week in which optimism over coronavirus vaccines and stimulus competed with inflation fears.…

BEIJING • For months, speculation over Mr Jack Ma’s whereabouts has run rampant. Maybe the embattled billionaire had fled to Singapore, some posited. Or he had been placed under house…