No specific measures were mentioned, but Taiwan in the past had offered subsidies and cheaper loans. Read more at straitstimes.com.

U.S. elections are an opportunity to review the \"wrong approaches\" of the American government, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Thursday according to state media, after ...

Mr Biden’s announcement that he would run for re-election was greeted with scepticism by Democrats. Read more at straitstimes ...

BERLIN - Germany is still capable of functioning after Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired his finance minister, spelling an end to ...

More than 40 Singapore businesses are exhibiting their products at the annual China International Import Expo in Shanghai. Read more at straitstimes.com.

DHAKA – Bangladesh is struggling to tamp down a surge in dengue cases as climate change turns the disease into a year-round crisis, leaving some paediatric wards packed with children squeezed two to a ...

LONDON – The US heavily taxed imports for much of its history before largely abandoning the policy, beginning in the 1930s, ...

JERUSALEM – The Israeli defence ministry said on Nov 7 it has signed an agreement to acquire 25 next generation F-15 fighter jets from Boeing. It said the US$5.2 billion (S$7 billion) agreement was ...

PARIS – French rugby’s golden boy Antoine Dupont is set to feature for his country’s 15-a-side on Nov 9 for the first time since a morale-denting Rugby World Cup exit a little over a year ago.

SINGAPORE – Expect interest rates to remain high and the Singapore dollar and other Asian currencies to ease as president-elect Donald Trump starts to bring his inflationary economic agenda into ...

TEHRAN - Iran on Nov 7 called Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election an opportunity for the United States to reassess past “wrong policies”.

Maori leaders described the move to introduce the Bill without consulting them as “dishonourable”. Read more at straitstimes.com.