Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry announced yesterday morning that based on advance estimates, the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) for the third quarter of 2018 grew 2.6 per cent year on year, reports Xinhua from Singapore. It is lower than the GDP growth of 4.1 per cent…

The World Bank Group, in partnership with the governments of Germany and the United Kingdom, announced yesterday a $145 million Global Risk Financing Facility (GRiF) to help vulnerable countries manage the financial impact of climate change and natural hazard-induced shocks, reports BSS. The new facility…

China's trade surplus with the United States ballooned to a record $34.1 billion in September, despite a raft of US tariffs, official data showed yesterday, adding fuel to the fire of a worsening trade war, reports AFP from Beijing. Relations between the world's two largest economies have soured…

Asian and European stock markets rallied yesterday  after two days of ferocious selling sparked by higher US interest rates, trade war fears and…

Passengers were getting ready to board the world’s longest flight on Thursday—a marathon 19 hours in the air between Singapore and New York,…

Rick Huether's family has run a manufacturing company in Maryland since the 1940s. So he knows a bit about keeping blue-collar jobs in America, reports…

Greater investments in people’s health and education are urgent in a rapidly evolving labour market increasingly shaped by technology, according to the World Development Report 2019: The Changing Nature of Work, reports BSS.   The number of robots operating worldwide is rising rapidly, the…