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Ardent Leisure Group Ltd entered a guilty plea in an Australian court on Wednesday to charges related to a fatal accident on a river rapids ride at its Queensland theme park in 2016, a company spokesman told Reuters.

Oil prices rose on Wednesday after an industry report showed that crude inventories in the United States increased against expectations, giving the market a boost amid record increases of coronavirus infections in the U.S. and elsewhere.

UOL Group has obtained its first green loan - a S$120 million three-year term facility from United Overseas Bank (UOB).

Asian equities pulled backed on Wednesday as an impasse in U.S. economic stimulus negotiations pushed global stocks lower and sent investors into safe-haven assets like gold, which hovered near record highs.

WASHINGTON: Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg will defend their respective companies before a congressional hearing on Wednesday (Jul 29) by saying they face intense competition from large rivals. Bezos and Zuckerberg's written testimony, made public on Tuesday, will be ...

NEW YORK: The coronavirus pandemic took a bite out of McDonald's profits and the Big Mac maker said Tuesday (Jul 28) it plans to focus on affordability in upcoming marketing campaigns, as US consumer surveys reveal mounting recession fears. But while there is still a lot of uncertainty because...

L Brands Inc. said on Tuesday it was cutting 15per cent of its home office workforce, or about 850 associates, as the Victoria's Secret owner restructures its operations to cut costs in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

NEW YORK: Gold chalked up another record peak on Tuesday (Jul 28), while equity markets struggled with mounting coronavirus fears amid a political fight in Washington over another fiscal package to support the battered US economy. With fresh infection spikes in Asia and Europe – on top of the...

Facebook Inc's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, will defend the social media company before a congressional hearing on Wednesday by saying it faces intense competition, justifying its acquisitions and pointing to China's growth as an internet superpower.

THE three local banks in Singapore are estimated to have granted payment deferments to more than S$15 billion worth of mortgages as at the end of June this year, or almost 10 per cent of all outstanding mortgages.