The targets, outlined in the Hotel Sustainability Roadmap launched on Monday, have been set by the Singapore Hotel Association and Singapore Tourism Board

Volkswagen China said on Monday it will form joint ventures with Huayou Cobalt and Tsingshan Group to secure nickel and cobalt supplies, to control battery costs as material prices soar

Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Pandjaitan said Indonesia is turning to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to fill the funding gap

A planned global minimum corporate tax of 15 per cent is a headache for the two Asian financial hubs, whose attraction owes much to their relatively low rates

Both exchanges spent last year preparing new rules to encourage SPAC listings after seeing hundreds of such flotations in the US and worrying that Asian firms would be lured away to list in New York

Analysts however await a significant recovery in inbound tourism, with tourists currently a fraction of travellers entering under vaccinated travel lane scheme

Peddlers in Little India area of Singapore usually approach foreign workers returning from work in the evenings, the report said

Sigve Brekke, Telenor chief executive, said the firm had to leave the country to "adhere to our own values on human rights and responsible business"

Cambodian foreign minister Prak Sokhonn said the meeting had been postponed because some ASEAN leaders could not attend on the proposed dates

Pawoot Pongvitayapanu, founder of Tarad.com, said the decree will enable the government to gain necessary data from digital platforms

Malaysia sticks with plan for a sole 5G network to maintain policy continuity, but will allow telecom firms to hold equity stakes to speed up infrastructure construction

Thailand has little choice but join the scramble for alternative gas supplies at a time European demand is rising