STUDENTS from lower-income families will receive further financial help form the government, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said in his Budget speech on Tuesday.
[SHANGHAI] "Stand in front of a chair. Chest up, core tight and square your pelvis," said Heidi Liu, a pilates instructor at a studio in Shanghai, as she demonstrated a series of poses and...
[BENGALURU] Australian hearing implant maker Cochlear Ltd said on Tuesday that demand for hearing implants will struggle to catch-up in China as the coronavirus crisis delays surgeries.
FIVE sectors – tourism, aviation, retail, food services, and point-to-point transport services – in Singapore which are directly affected by the spread of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) will...
[BEIJING] Thousands of containers of frozen pork, chicken and beef are piling up at some major Chinese ports as transport disruptions and labour shortages slow operations, people familiar with the...
[CHICAGO] It's a hard time to be a dairy farmer in America: The nationwide decline in milk consumption and the rippling effects of the trade war with China have pushed thousands of farms out of...
[MUMBAI] India's poultry industry has lost 13 billion rupees (S$252.9 million) in three weeks after speculation on social media that chickens are a cause of the spread of coronavirus, denting...
[BEIJING] On a Friday night in one of Beijing's central shopping districts, the popular Megabox cinema is shuttered and empty.
[BEIJING] The world could face a shortage of antibiotics if the pharmaceutical industry's supply problems posed by the coronavirus outbreak in China cannot soon be resolved, the head of a European...
[BENGALURU] Coles Group, Australia's second-biggest grocery chain, posted near-flat half-year earnings on Tuesday as it included a A$20 million cost provision for payments to underpaid salaried...
[SAN FRANCISCO] US chain store Pier 1, best known for its imported home furnishings, filed for bankruptcy on Monday after years of weakening sales and a struggle to establish itself online.
