Philippines’ GCash not rushing to launch IPO due to strong financial position: chairman
The proposed initial public offering by GCash would take place next year as planned given that market conditions for listings have improved but the...
Israel sending rescue team after ‘very violent incident’ against citizens in Amsterdam
Published: 3:29pm, 8 Nov 2024Updated: 4:02pm, 8 Nov 2024 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has directed that two rescue planes be sent immediately to...
Malaysian ex-PM Muhyiddin Yassin ordered to pay US$300,000 for defaming former minister
A Malaysian court has ordered opposition leader and former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin to pay more than US$300,000 to another politician in a defamation...
Trump’s triumph prompts Democratic soul-searching as shock gives way to anger
Democrats are facing a painful reckoning over Kamala Harris’s drubbing at the hands of Donald Trump in the US presidential election, as shock gives...
Magnetic shield over North America is losing strength ‘exceptionally fast’: PLA scientists
Published: 3:04pm, 8 Nov 2024Updated: 3:07pm, 8 Nov 2024 The magnetic field over North America is weakening at an unusually rapid rate, while the...
Calls in Japan for more suicide prevention steps targeting schoolchildren’s mental health
Published: 2:36pm, 8 Nov 2024Updated: 2:44pm, 8 Nov 2024 Suicides among Japanese schoolchildren remained alarmingly high in financial year 2023 with 513 deaths, underscoring...
Carbon pollution from high flying rich in private jets soars, study finds
Carbon pollution from private jets has soared in the past five years, with most of those small planes spewing more heat-trapping carbon dioxide in...
HSBC job losses to begin in weeks amid lender’s sweeping overhaul, high-level boss says
The head of HSBC Holdings’ new global wholesale banking division said the lender will seek to wrap up a restructuring process “very quickly” and...
2 teens arrested after Singaporean student stabbed to death in Brussels
A 25-year-old Singaporean student died in Brussels after he was stabbed in the early hours of Thursday morning. Advertisement Local police were called to...