TOKYO] Business sentiment among big Japanese manufacturers worsened in the three months to March, a central bank survey ...

SINGAPORE] The following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of its securities on Tuesday (Apr 1). Read ...

NEW YORK] A US bankruptcy judge on Monday rejected Johnson & Johnson’s US$10 billion proposal to end lawsuits alleging that its baby powder and other talc products cause ovarian cancer, marking the ...

TOKYO] Japan’s jobless rate in February fell to 2.4 per cent from 2.5 per cent in January, government data showed on Tuesday. Read more at The Business Times.

TAIWAN’S major chipmaker United Microelectronics and US-based GlobalFoundries are looking into the possibility of a merger, ...

TOKYO] In Japan, policymakers and economists are paying close attention to the “oshikatsu” phenomenon as a growing driver of ...

PARIS] French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Monday slammed a “political decision” and insisted she had not abandoned hope ...

WASHINGTON] President Donald Trump may be publicly musing about serving a third term in the White House but the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution makes such a scenario highly unlikely. Read more ...

WASHINGTON] US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats are causing “a lot of anxiety,” but their global economic impact is not expected to be dramatic, the head of the IMF said on Monday. Read more at ...

OPENAI said on Monday it would raise US$40 billion in a new funding round led by SoftBank Group at a US$300 billion valuation ...

WASHINGTON] US President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order aimed at facilitating and accelerating corporate investments of more than US$1 billion, the White House said. Read more at The ...

OIL prices climbed about 2 per cent to a five-week high on Monday on worries supplies could decline if US President Donald Trump follows through on threats to impose more tariffs on Russia and to ...