BEIJING: China's central bank said Monday (May 6) it would cut the amount of cash that small and medium-sized banks hold in reserve in Beijing's latest move to boost the stuttering economy. Authorities will slash the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) on May 15, with the aim of lowering financing...
Asian equities tumbled, oil prices plunged and the safe-haven yen strengthened early on Monday as trade negotiations between China and the United States deteriorated suddenly, reversing apparent progress made in recent months.
SHANGHAI: China's key stock indices plunged more 5 per cent on Monday (May 6) after US President Donald Trump threatened to hike tariffs on Chinese imports, potentially derailing high-level trade talks as they enter their final phase. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index ended the morning ...
SINGAPORE: Mediacorp's proprietary data analytics platforms MeID and RIPPLE won nine awards at the Global BIGGIES Awards competition in San Francisco last Thursday (May 2). The competition recognises the best practices in data and artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives by media companies around ...
SINGAPORE: Isetan Singapore will not renew the lease for its "loss-making" store at Westgate mall, the company announced in an SGX filing on Monday (May 6) before the market opened. The Japanese department store operator said its lease with JG Trustee (JGT) will expire on Dec 22 this year, after...
PARIS: A decade after a wave of suicides at France Telecom in which 35 employees took their own lives, the telecoms giant and its former CEO go on trial Monday (May 6) for "moral harassment". The case will look at what was behind the deaths that occurred between 2008...
Facebook Inc has thousands of content labelers around the world who categorize content with the aim of creating large datasets that can be more readily analyzed by humans and software.
Over the past year, a team of as many as 260 contract workers in Hyderabad, India has ploughed through millions of Facebook Inc photos, status updates and other content posted since 2014.
Asian equities tumbled, oil prices plunged and the safe-haven yen strengthened early on Monday as trade negotiations between China and the United States deteriorated suddenly, reversing apparent progress made in recent months.
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump dramatically increased pressure on China to reach a trade deal by announcing on Sunday he would hike U.S. tariffs on US$200 billion worth of Chinese goods this week and target hundreds of billions more soon. The move marked a major escalation in trade tensions ......
