LONDON (Reuters) – European shares on Friday hit their highest level in nearly two months as investors flocked to technology stocks after positive U.S. earnings overnight, while news of slowing revenue growth from Vodafone weighed on telecoms. The pan-European STOXX 600 index was up 0.6 percent by 0842 GMT, on track for its fourth straight […]
SINGAPORE – A public memorial service is being considered for home-grown actor Aloysius Pang, who was viewed as “the precious” of his family. Speaking to the media last night (Jan 24) after arriving in Singapore from New Zealand, the actor’s second-eldest brother Kenny said: “He’s the youngest, he’s the most loved… we called him xiao […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday he thought the United States and China were “making a lot of progress” in trade talks, with currency issues also on the agenda. Mnuchin, speaking to reporters after remarks to a U.S. mayors conference, was not specific on the areas where he saw progress but […]
LONDON (Reuters) – European shares on Friday hit their highest level in nearly two months as investors flocked to technology stocks after positive U.S. earnings overnight, while news of slowing revenue growth from Vodafone weighed on telecoms. The pan-European STOXX 600 index was up 0.6 percent by 0842 GMT, on track for its fourth straight […]
SINGAPORE – It was a “fuelish” attempt for two Malaysians who tried to smuggle contraband cigarettes into Singapore with their cars on Wednesday (Jan 23). Both attempts at the Woodlands Checkpoint were foiled by officers from the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA), which gave details of the cases in a Facebook post on Friday. In […]
SINGAPORE – The Housing Board (HDB) said on Friday (Jan 25) that the first Build-to-Order (BTO) exercise of the year will be launched in February, with about 3,100 flats in Jurong West, Kallang/Whampoa and Sengkang. There will also be a concurrent re-offer of balance flats exercise, the HDB said. The HDB plans to launch about […]
MANILA – A proposed law lowering the age of criminal liability from 15 to 12 is stirring up a maelstrom in the Philippines, as backers of the measure square off with activists over when children could be held criminally responsible for their actions and sent to jail. The Bill, approved on Monday (Jan 21) by […]
SRIHARIKOTA, India (AFP) – A lightweight satellite designed by students that can be held in the palm of the hand has been launched by Indian scientists, burnishing the country’s credentials in miniature design technology. The 10cm cube satellite, named Kalamsat V2, weighs just 1.2kg, according to students from the private Space Kidz India group who […]
BEIJING (REUTERS) – Australian embassy officials visited on Friday (Jan 25) a Chinese-born Australian writer being held in Beijing on suspicion of endangering state security, the Australian foreign ministry said. China has said that Yang Jun, a naturalised Australian writer, who goes by the name Yang Hengjun, is being held under”coercive measures” – a euphemism […]
HONG KONG — At least one person was killed and another was injured in a series of explosions Friday afternoon in the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun, the local authorities said. The police are tentatively treating the explosions as “a criminal case,” the propaganda office of the Changchun Municipal Communist Party Committee said in a […]