economy

Markets have remained calm following the debates in the absence of any policy surprises.

Trading activity will be muted in the coming weeks.

PM Lee calls this a "spot of good news" but warns Singapore not to be carried away

It is not just anecdotal evidence or statistics rolled out by China’s State Council Information Office, but also by updates from companies themselves: China is going back to work, slowly but surely.

HONG KONG (Oct 16): Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam had to abandon her policy speech because of jeering lawmakers on Wednesday but later offered no direct olive branch to pro-democracy protesters, hoping instead to ease resentment by building more public hous

SINGAPORE (May 20): As a French citizen, I was deeply affected by the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, and was happy and surprised that many people contributed generously to its reconstruction. But I do not understand why, while we were able to coll

(July 18): Malaysia’s central bank, which has already downgraded its economic growth outlook for this year amid an escalating trade war, sees a partial offset as companies shift operations from China to sidestep higher US tariffs.

(May 21): Indonesian President Joko Widodo won last month’s bitterly contested election by a double-digit margin, official results showed Tuesday, putting the former furniture exporter in charge of the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation for anothe