The RN-Tuapsinsky refinery operated by Rosneft Oil Co. in Tuapse, Russia. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images SINGAPORE — As the world’s oil traders and analysts gathered at the annual Asia Pacific Petroleum Conference in Singapore last week, the slump in oil and where it was headed was foremost in everybody’s mind. China, the…
Wynnette Yip found Swedish attitudes toward marriage surprising after moving from Singapore. (Photo: wynnyyyy/TikTok via Malay Mail) Wynnette Yip, a Singaporean living in Sweden, experienced significant culture shock over the Swedish approach to marriage and cohabitation. In Sweden, many couples opt for cohabitation (“sambo”) rather than formal marriage, which contrasts sharply with the traditional marriage…
The logo of Alibaba’s e-commerce app Taobao is displayed next to mobile phones displaying the app, in this illustration picture taken October 25, 2023. Reuters | Florence Lo Singapore — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba‘s Taobao shopping app topped the Apple App Store charts in Singapore after releasing an English version on Tuesday — thanks to…
Former New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley said he sees scope for a half-point rate cut at next week’s meeting. “I think there’s a strong case for 50,” Dudley said on Friday at a forum organized by The Bretton Woods Committee in Singapore. Dudley left the New York Fed in 2018 and is now…
Chinese appliance giant Midea Group Co. is poised to raise $4 billion in its Hong Kong listing in an enlarged deal that will be priced at the top of the marketed range, people familiar with the matter said, in a show of demand for the city’s biggest share sale in three years. The Foshan, China-based…