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SINGAPORE: By the end of this year, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will come up with guidelines for companies to create proper rest areas for low-wage workers such as cleaners, security guards and landscaping workers. The ministry started gathering feedback at the start of April by interviewing ...

SINGAPORE: Food delivery service GrabFood is looking to introduce central kitchens in locations which have few eateries but see high demand "sometime this year", its Singapore head Lim Kell Jay told reporters during a media briefing on Tuesday (Apr 16). "For areas which are relatively under-served ...

Germany's biggest airline Lufthansa posted a loss for first three months of the year, hurt by rising fuel cost and overcapacity in Europe.

The Supreme Court of the Netherlands dismissed Ecuador's attempts to annul decisions of an international arbitral tribunal that ordered Ecuador to prevent enforcement of a US$9.5 billion judgment against Chevron Corp anywhere in the world, the U.S. oil major said on Tuesday.

SINGAPORE: A new integrated tourism development will be set up at the Jurong Lake District by 2026, in line with the Government’s strategy to "spread out its tourism offerings across different parts of Singapore", said Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry Chee Hong Tat on Tuesday (Apr...

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday asked Britain to minimise the negative impact of its departure from the European Union on Japanese firms and the global economy.

President Donald Trump said on Monday he believed the United States would emerge from its trade dispute with China as a winner, no matter what happened.

Two U.S. House of Representatives committees have issued subpoenas to multiple financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank AG, for information on U.S. President Donald Trump's finances, the panels' Democratic leaders said on Monday.

Daimler plans to launch an electric compact sport utility vehicle in 2021 which will be called the Mercedes EQB, the German carmaker's CEO said on Tuesday.

General Motors Co has spent five years re-writing its playbook for making money in Latin America and the interior of China. Now, it's show time for the first results of a project code-named GEM, for Global Emerging Market.