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Amazon will add over 2,000 permanent jobs in Britain this year, taking the U.S. retail giant's UK workforce to more than 29,500, it said on Wednesday.

Insomnia can persist and when entrenched can be a misery. So start sleeping better now, says Duke-NUS Medical School’s Michael Chee.

What might the set-up of an ideal workplace environment look like today? Alexander Brem shares findings of his experiment.

Tesla Inc beat expectations for deliveries of its Model 3 sedan in the second quarter, a performance that could ease concerns about demand for the new electric sedan.

Global regulators will meet in Montreal next week to review pilot licensing requirements, the U.N.'s aviation agency said, as part of a discussion that has gained urgency following two fatal crashes of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in the past year.

DIGITALISATION has reshaped how we communicate, organise, interact, move and trade. It is now changing money. Mobile phone-based electronic payments are becoming just like cash: contactless, cheap and easy to make on a peer-to-peer basis, including across borders. Life without a bank account becomes possible, which helps...

ON June 28, 2019, at the 46th annual dinner of The Association of Banks in Singapore, Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam announced that up to five new digital bank licences will be issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The announcement is a significant one in light...

FOR years, global investors and financiers have identified Hong Kong as a wealthy, stable city. On many fronts, this assumption is now being called into question. Hong Kong dollar funding costs have soared amid tightening liquidity and political protests.

MERGERS and acquisitions (M&A) activity in most South-east Asian countries bucked the overall downtrend in the Asia-Pacific (Apac) ex-Japan for the first half this year, with Singapore recording US$17.1 billion in deals - a 154 per cent jump from a year ago.

GIC says there are attractive opportunities in Asia’s consumption-based goods and services sectors, such as financial services, healthcare, education and technology.