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LONDON – Britain’s unemployment rate rose by more than expected to 4.5 per cent in the three months to August, up from 4.1 per cent in the three months to July, even before the end of the…

LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will call for a global plan to prevent pandemics and pledge more funds to the World Health Organisation in a speech to the UN General Assembly…

HONG KONG – State-backed investors are considering taking BMW’s main Chinese joint-venture partner Brilliance private, five people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, in the latest…

BRUSSELS – The European Union is studying the possibility of legal action against the United Kingdom over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plans to breach the agreement governing Britain’s…

WASHINGTON — Republican officials in New York City do not seem to have a problem with President Donald Trump’s new, legally questionable plan to defund their city. The Trump administration…

SINGAPORE – Standard Chartered  is planning its second digital-only bank in Asia, teaming up with NTUC Enterprise, according to people familiar with the matter. The London-based bank would…

WASHINGTON – Congressional Democrats on Friday (Aug 7) offered to reduce a proposed coronavirus aid package by US$1 trillion (S$1.3 trillion) if Republicans would add a trillion to their…

WASHINGTON – Amazon said on Thursday it will invest more than US$10 billion (S$13.7 billion) to build a network of 3,236 satellites that will provide high-speed broadband internet services…

WILMINGTON, UNITED STATES – White House hopeful Joe Biden on Tuesday (July 14) unveiled an ambitious climate change plan that would revamp the US energy sector and seek to achieve carbon…

LONDON – Britain is poised to ban Huawei Technologies from its next generation mobile networks under a two-step plan designed to protect critical communication systems from…