HONG Kong’s government is exploring options to raise taxes on the city’s highest earners for a second straight year to plug ...

TAIWAN’S companies invested a record amount of money in the US and Japan last year while the figure for China stagnated – ...

SOUTH Korea’s central bank unexpectedly left its policy interest rate unchanged on Thursday, weighing the impact of its ...

GOLD prices hit more than one-month highs on Thursday (Jan 16) in early Asian hours after data showed US core inflation rose ...

BITCOIN notched its biggest gain of the new year as reassuring US inflation figures revived bets on further interest-rate ...

APPLE is in talks with Barclays to replace Goldman Sachs as the tech giant’s credit card partner, said two sources familiar ...

FACILITATING mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and extending wage cost relief schemes are among 17 recommendations proposed by ...

SENATOR Marco Rubio, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of state, warned on Wednesday that the US must ...

SINGAPORE equities began Thursday (Jan 16) in positive territory, tracking gains in global markets. Read more at The Business ...

JAPAN’S wholesale prices rose 3.8 per cent in December from a year earlier, central bank data showed on Thursday, ...

BLACKSTONE has hired financial advisers to explore the sale of song rights, including music from Bob Dylan, Adele and Ariana ...

QATAR and the United States announced on Wednesday a ceasefire and hostage-release deal between Israel and Hamas, adding that ...