SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Members of Singapore’s Lim family have asked a court to stop law firm Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP (R&T) from working for court-appointed supervisors to two companies in the Lim’s embattled oil trading empire, Evan Lim Chee Meng told Reuters. Lim and his sister, Lim Huey Ching, filed an application to restrain […]
Veteran pastry chef Ana Fong fondly remembers sharing one of her family business’ past specialities – a hybrid between a cake and a pastry – with her siblings when she was a child. It has been nearly four decades since the company last sold the pastry, but the general manager of 85-year-old home-grown pastry shop […]
Singaporean pleads guilty to spying for China in the US Yeo Jun Wei, also known as Dickson Yeo, pleaded guilty to one charge of operating illegally as a foreign agent. READ MORE HERE WHO reports record daily increase in global coronavirus cases, up over 284,000 Deaths rose by 9,753, the biggest one-day increase since a […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Signs of trepidation over the lasting impact of the U.S. coronavirus pandemic are growing on Wall Street, fanned by resurgent case numbers, the prospect of a slower rebound in growth and rising political uncertainty. As a U.S. equity rally stalled this week, investors poured a net $24.5 billion into bonds, the […]
The government-run NLC power plant in Tamil Nadu state’s Cuddalore district suffers second blast in two months. A blast at a power plant in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu’s Cuddalore district has killed at least six people, an official from the state-run company and local police said, the second deadly boiler explosion in […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Signs of trepidation over the lasting impact of the U.S. coronavirus pandemic are growing on Wall Street, fanned by resurgent case numbers, the prospect of a slower rebound in growth and rising political uncertainty. As a U.S. equity rally stalled this week, investors poured a net $24.5 billion into bonds, the […]
(Reuters) – European shares posted their biggest session drop in a month on Friday as global sentiment soured after Beijing ordered the United States to close its consulate in a Chinese city in retaliation to similar move by Washington. With all sectors trading in the red, technology stocks .SX8P such as SAP (SAPG.DE) and ASML […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sales of new U.S. single-family homes increased more than expected in June as the housing market outperforms the broader economy amid record low interest rates and migration from urban centers to lower-density areas because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Commerce Department said on Friday new home sales rose 13.8% to a seasonally […]
MANILA – Millions of students in the Philippines are dropping out of school this year as parents fret over a still raging coronavirus outbreak and harbour doubts over how effective distance learning will be. Some 23 million students in public and private schools – out of 28 million students in the country – have enrolled for […]
BANGKOK (REUTERS) – Young Thai political activists set fire to pictures of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha outside government house on Friday (July 24) and called for his resignation as pressure builds on the generals who orchestrated a 2014 coup to leave office. In the past week, there have been small protests seeking to drive him from office […]