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Chinese snack retailer Busy Ming surges 69% in Hong Kong debut
The company will use IPO proceeds for supply-chain improvement and product development [SINGAPORE/HONG KONG] Busy Ming Group shares jumped…
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OCBC taps Citi to roll out securities lending for clients, following Maybank’s earlier move
This covers retail and corporate customers of OCBC Securities and clients of Bank of Singapore OCBC has rolled out a securities lending…
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VinaCapital Sees Vietnam GDP Growth Reaching up to 10% in 2026 on Infrastructure and Exports
Investment firm VinaCapital has struck an optimistic note on Vietnam's economic outlook, projecting that the country's gross domestic…
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Singaporean Man, 22, Jailed 7 Months After PMD Charging Fire Kills Uncle's Fiancée
A 22-year-old Singaporean man was sentenced to seven months' jail on Wednesday, January 28, after a fire caused by his negligent charging…
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ASML reports big orders beat as AI drives chipmaker demand, to lay off 1,700
The orders beat comes as several of the chipmaker’s customers raise investment plans reported stronger-than-expected bookings in the…
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Chinese New Year 2026: Singapore Police Urge Visitors to Check Live Crowd Map Ahead of Chinatown CNY Bazaar
Members of the public planning to visit Chinatown between February 13 and 16 have been advised to check a live crowd map before heading…
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Singapore: 13 People Hospitalized After Accident Involving Lorry, Car Along Orchard Road
Thirteen people were taken to hospital following a traffic accident involving a lorry and a car along Orchard Road in the early hours of…
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Alex Pretti: Two Border Patrol Agents Fired 10 Shots at Minneapolis Anti-ICE Protester after He Was Disarmed, Agency Report Finds
Two federal immigration officers fired their guns during the weekend's fatal shooting of armed anti-ICE protester Alex Pretti in…
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Singapore-based Digital Edge to build US$4.5 billion data centre campus in Indonesia
Digital Edge, an Asian digital infrastructure firm backed by alternative asset manager Stonepeak Partners, plans to invest US$4.5 billion…
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'Jealous' El Paso Man Fatally Shoots Another Man Who Returned Home with His Ex-Girlfriend
A man shot and killed another man on Sunday, Jan. 25, in Socorro, in a jealous rage, according to court documents. According to court…
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Tether is shaking up the gold market with massive metal hoard
The company makes money from its dollar stablecoin that is the giant of the sector, with US$186 billion in circulation There are roughly…
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Gilbert Man Solicited Men Online to Sexually Assault His Wife After He Drugged Her So He Could Film it
A Gilbert, Arizona man is accused of soliciting men on Reddit to rape his wife while posing as a swinger couple, leading to the arrest of…
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Singapore Airlines adds flights for March to October season, adjusts schedules for Singapore Airshow
Some flights will be cancelled or rescheduled between Jan 29 and Feb 8 due to the airshow Singapore Airlines (SIA) will increase flight…
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Hong Kong banks to see wealth ‘windfall’ as fees jump: report
Risk appetite also remains “firm” thanks to expectations of further interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve through the year Hong Kong…
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China gives green light to importing first batch of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips, sources say
A has approved its first batch of Nvidia’s H200 artificial intelligence chips for import, two people familiar with the matter told…
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China approves first batch of Nvidia H200 chip imports: sources
— China has approved its first batch of Nvidia H200 artificial intelligence chip imports, three people familiar with the matter told…
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BYD weighs India expansion as hundreds of car orders pile up
The automaker has approached Indian auto sector regulators to flag how import limits could constrain growth is weighing options to expand…
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China to favour Brazilian soybean imports in H1 despite renewed US inflows
China is expected to boost imports of Brazilian soybeans in the first half of 2026, as record production and competitive prices propel…
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AI Steps Up in Project Management: Tackling Worldwide Challenges with PMI Infinity
It is often seen world over that teams invest time and money into projects, only to watch many of them falter. This is mostly due to…
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Improving Global Commerce with Secure Digital Payments
Think of a scenario where purchasing groceries in a busy market in Mumbai, or ordering electronics from a store in Tokyo can take place in…
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A Blueprint for Enterprise Resilience: The New Operating Model for Engineering Excellence
When large financial institutions talk about digital transformation, they often highlight the glamorous parts: cloud migrations, AI-driven…
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Why Care, Not Category, Is Driving One of Retail's Fastest-Growing Brands
In a crowded direct-to-consumer market where competitors multiply by the month and attention spans shrink by the day, sustained growth is…
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‘Swiftest pace of expansion’: RHB lifts OCBC target price to S$21.30 on Q4 earnings growth forecast
RHB has raised its target price for OCBC to S$21.30, driven by forecasts that the bank will post single-digit year-on-year earnings growth…
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Why Secure API Orchestration Is Becoming Core to Enterprise Architecture
As digital systems become more interconnected, APIs have moved from being simple integration tools to serving as the backbone of…