Asia

SINGAPORE (Feb 10): Demand for healthcare services seems to be outpacing supply, as an ageing population and the prevalence of chronic illnesses quickly fill up new hospitals and clinics with patients both local and from abroad.

SINGAPORE (Jan 26): Barely a week in office and US President Donald Trump has quickly gotten down to fulfilling the promises he has made to his voters, ripping up the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, ordering the building of the Mexican border wall an

SINGAPORE (Jan 13): With the US and China displaying steady growth momentum and the continued recovery of Asian exports, Oxford Economics thinks 2017 has started on a positive note – and bodes especially well for Asia’s small open economies that rely

SINGAPORE (Jan 4): Assets under management (AUM) of automated wealth management services, otherwise known as robo-advisors, are projected to rise by 2,500% to US$489 billion ($708.3 billion) globally by 2020, according to data provided by financial servic

SINGAPORE (Jan 4): Franses Gallery, a London-based UK art gallery, says it is currently in the midst of a “bitter [court] dispute” with CapitaLand over a new 15-year lease of purpose-built premises within the Singapore-listed property developer’s As

(Dec 7): The death knell sounding for a US-led Pacific trade pact creates a vacuum that a separate Asia deal being championed by China should quickly fill, according to the Asian Development Bank.

SINGAPORE (Dec 6): Del Monte Pacific posted earnings of US$20.2 million ($28.7 million) for 2QFY17, a 57.8% decrease from the earnings of US$47.8 million in 2QFY16.

SINGAPORE (Dec 6): ABN AMRO has reached an agreement to sell its private banking operations in Asia and Middle East to LGT, an international private banking and asset management group, for an undisclosed sum.

SINGAPORE (Nov 29): Asia’s gross domestic product is set to grow by 3.9% in 2017 as the overall global economy grows by 2.5%, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 23): Asia’s worst-performing currency since Donald Trump’s surprise US election victory is putting a Malaysian interest-rate cut out of sight for now.