NEW YORK] Microsoft will lay off nearly 4 per cent of its workforce, or about 9000 people, the company said on Wednesday (Jul ...

WASHINGTON] US President Donald Trump said he had reached a trade deal with Vietnam following weeks of intense diplomacy ...

ONE man and his family have dominated Thailand’s politics since the millennium. Billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra and his ...

WASHINGTON] The debate within President Donald Trump’s Republican Party over a massive tax-cut and spending Bill returns to ...

US STOCKS opened lower on Wednesday (Jul 2) as surprisingly weak US private jobs data raised concerns about the labour market ...

WASHINGTON] The US private sector unexpectedly lost jobs in June, according to data from payroll firm ADP on Wednesday (Jul 2 ...

NEW YORK] Microsoft’s gaming division began informing employees of job cuts on Wednesday (Jul 2) morning, part of a broader ...

SINGAPORE] Singapore’s overall factory activity returned to expansion territory in June after two straight months of ...

HONG KONG] BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager, is seeing rising interest from its global clients in diversifying ...

HONG KONG] Hong Kong’s retail sales by value rose 2.4 per cent in May from a year earlier, the first increase in more than a ...

NEW YORK] A turf war is breaking out in the vast world of digital payments – and the incumbents are suddenly on defence. Read ...

THE consensus after Israel’s 12-day war with Iran seems to be that it ended in humiliation – not just for the Islamic ...