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Hongkong Land Q3 profit falls 13% on lower contributions from its office portfolio
[SINGAPORE] Hongkong Land’s underlying profit for the third quarter of its 2025 financial year is 13 per cent lower than the same period the previous year.This is primarily due...
Bitcoin erases 2025 gains as investors fret over the macro environment
As at Nov 20, cryptocurrency’s value is 2.4% lower than that at the start of the year[SINGAPORE] Bitcoin’s correction has erased the gains it made in 2025, just over a...
As Elon Musk plans a robot army, China’s humanoid bots are already on the market
As Elon Musk touted plans to eventually manufacture an army of Tesla bots in Silicon Valley this month, humanoid robots were already being produced and sold to consumers in...
Is there an AI bubble and has it started to burst?
The artificial intelligence boom seems unstoppable, but a growing number of investors and other observers worry it could be a bubble about to burst. After skyrocketing more than 50%...
ComfortDelGro unveils senior leadership changes
[SINGAPORE] Transport operator ComfortDelGro on Thursday (Nov 20) announced senior leadership changes, which included the creation of a new “point-to-point mobility officer” role.Derek Koh will step down from his...
Singapore stocks rise as market cheers new SGX announcements; STI up 0.2%
Frasers Logistics & Commercial Trust is top gainer on benchmark index; three local banks also end higher[SINGAPORE] Singapore stocks ended higher on Thursday (Nov 20), as the market cheered...
ByteDance’s valuation soars to US$480 billion in share auction
[HONG KONG] [A Chinese investment firm bought a block of ByteDance shares at a valuation of US$480 billion, far above recent levels, a sign of strong investor interest in...
DBS, UOB, OCBC, Jardine among stocks that could gain from smaller board lot sizes
[SINGAPORE] US-listed Grab might have been dual-listed in Singapore if the Singapore Exchange’s (SGX) latest push for dual listings was around at the time they went public on the...
BNP starts buyback, boosts capital goal after share drop
[PARIS] BNP Paribas announced a new buyback and plans to reach a target for capital strength early as chief executive officer Jean-Laurent Bonnafe seeks to reverse a recent slide...
Vietnamese airline Vietjet to resume use of Chinese-made Comac planes: sources
C909, which seats up to 90 passengers, has been operating commercially since 2016[HANOI] Vietnamese budget airline Vietjet plans to resume the use of Comac jets next week after a...
Google opens new AI engineering centre in Taiwan
[TAIPEI] Alphabet’s Google on Thursday opened in Taiwan its biggest artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure hardware engineering centre outside of the US, in what Taiwan’s president said was a show...
Heavy rain in Vietnam’s top coffee-growing region threatens crop
[HANOI] Heavy rain has delayed harvesting in Vietnam’s biggest coffee-growing province of Dak Lak, and further downpours risk damaging crops and crimping output in the world’s top producer of...