MIAMI (AP) — The handbag Donna Karan was showing off Friday lacked her signature logo, or any designer's logo. It was made of paper mache and, the fashion designer said, represented Haiti 's handmade carnival masks — in wearable form. She said the tote bag and other similar fashion an...
ST. LOUIS, May 17 (Thomson Reuters Accelus ) - U.S. authorities have seized two accounts linked to a major operator in the booming Bitcoin digital currency market, Tokyo-based exchange Mt. Gox . The move may prevent the firm from facilitating the purchase and sale of Bitcoins in U.S. ...
SINGAPORE, May 17 (Reuters) - Shares of Singapore Airlines Ltd (SIA ) fell as much as 3 percent after Asia's second-largest carrier reported weaker-than-expected full-year results and warned of a tough outlook amid competition from Gulf carriers and low-cost regional rivals. SIA share...
SINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore opened a long-anticipated corruption trial Wednesday of six church leaders accused of embezzling more than $40 million to fund the pop music career of the wife of their evangelical movement's founder. City Harvest Church faithful queued at a Singapore court ...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Gold reversed early gains in volatile trade on Thursday, lacking the impetus to rise further despite a weaker U.S. dollar as gold holdings in bullion exchange-traded funds fell to their lowest since early 2009. Bullion prices have been rangebound this month, torn...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Gold held steady on Thursday after gaining more than 1 percent in the previous session, lacking impetus to rise further as investors cut their holdings on bullion exchange-traded funds to their lowest since early 2009. Bullion prices have been rangebound this mon...
Eyeing a stronger presence in Asia, the WTA is moving its season-ending championships to Singapore for 2014-18 in a five-year deal worth more than $70 million. "We're no different than any multinational corporation that looks for growth," WTA Chairman and CEO Stacey Allaster said Wedn...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. derivatives regulator is considering whether the Bitcoin virtual currency should be subject to its rules, a top official at the agency said. Bart Chilton , one of five commissioners at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission , said he had asked sta...
By Ian Chua and Vidya Ranganathan SYDNEY/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asian stocks rose on Monday as investors gave the thumbs up to an upbeat U.S. labour force report that sent Wall Street to an all-time closing high last week, while the dollar held its ground against the yen. MSCI's broade...
By Ian Chua and Vidya Ranganathan SYDNEY/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asian stocks rose on Monday as investors cheered the upbeat U.S. labor force report that sent Wall Street to an all-time closing high last week, while the dollar held its ground against the yen. MSCI's broadest index of As...
By Ian Chua and Vidya Ranganathan SYDNEY/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asian stocks rose on Monday as investors cheered the upbeat U.S. labour force report that sent Wall Street to an all-time closing high last week, while the dollar held its ground against the yen. MSCI's broadest index of A...
By Saeed Azhar and Janeman Latul SINGAPORE/JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia is expected within days to give a green light to its biggest foreign bank takeover, but sources say the deal conditions are likely to send a very different signal: foreign ownership and bank consolidation are now...
By Rachel Armstrong, Saeed Azhar and John O'Callaghan SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Banks in Singapore are urgently scrutinizing their account holders as an imminent deadline on stricter tax evasion measures forces them to decide whether to send some of their wealthiest clients packing. The S...
SINGAPORE, May 3 (Reuters) - Shares of Genting Singapore PLC fell as much as 8.1 percent early on Friday after the casino operator reported a 35 percent drop in core earnings and flagged a cautious outlook due to muted economic growth in China. The shares fell as low as S$1.48 after c...
By Anshuman Daga and Eveline Danubrata SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A stroke of bad luck. That's what casino operator Genting Singapore PLC blamed for reporting a sharply lower-than-expected quarterly profit, while also flagging a cautious outlook due to muted Chinese economic growth. Gentin...
By Iain Rogers BARCELONA, April 30 (Reuters) - Barcelona will have to wait until after Tuesday's training session to see if midfielder Sergio Busquets is fit to play their Champions League semi-final second leg against Bayern Munich on Wednesday, coach Tito Vilanova said. Busquets is ...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asia needs to guard against asset bubbles and its emerging economies must improve government institutions and liberalize rigid labor and product markets if they wish to reach the level of developed countries, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday. "Emerg...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Cellular operator Digicel Group Ltd jumped into Myanmar early and big, hiring staff, funding local sports, negotiating land deals for thousands of cell tower sites and signing up hundreds of partners for retail outlets. The strategy helped propel it onto the shor...
Imagine a world where the Nasdaq, the Nikkei and the FTSE all failed within the span of a week and you have an idea how crazy the world of virtual currency trading has become. Wired reports that a new study from computer scientists Tyler Moore of the Southern Methodist University in D...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The World Bank on Monday scaled back slightly its 2013 growth forecasts for emerging East Asia and warned about possible over-heating in the region's larger economies, but the global lender said the Bank of Japan 's sweeping monetary expansion should provide a fi...
* Arsenal beat Norwich to go third * Everton ease past QPR to maintain top-four hopes * Reading withstand barrage to draw with Liverpool (Writes through, adds byline) By Toby Davis LONDON, April 13 (Reuters) - Three goals in a frantic final five minutes helped Arsenal move into the bo...
With all the spikes and subsequent crashes in Bitcoin 's value over the last couple of days, it's hard to keep track of how the currency and all of its enthusiastic owners are doing. To help with that we've created this handy-dandy real time counter that keeps track of Bitcoin's value...
LONDON (AP) — It's a promising form of electronic cash free from central bankers and beloved by hackers. It — Bitcoin — may also be in trouble, registering catastrophic losses that have sent speculators scrambling. Although the cybercurrency has existed for years as a kind of Internet...
LONDON (AP) — With $600 stuffed in one pocket and a smartphone tucked in the other, Patricio Fink struck a deal that's joining thousands like it in a virtual revolution. The Argentine software developer was dealing in bitcoins — getting an injection of the cybercurrency in exchange fo...
If you thought the Bitcoin market was crazy before , just wait until traders get the ability to make leveraged bets on the virtual currency’s future price. From the what-could-possibly-go-wrong department, TechCrunch reports that New York-based startup Coinsetter has received $500,000...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore businessman accused of bribing three Lebanese soccer match officials with prostitutes has been released on bail after he entered a not guilty plea in court on Tuesday. Businessman Eric Ding Si Yang , who once worked for the local New Paper tabloid as ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Singapore's Lam Chi Bing grabbed a share of the lead at the Panasonic Open India on Thursday as he bids to revive his career after losing his Asian Tour card last year. Lam birdied the last hole to join the Australian duo of Kieran Pratt and Wade Ormsby in a thre...
Bitcoin have been absolutely surging lately but one analyst thinks such a rapid rise is more indicative of a bubble than a genuine boom. ConvergEx Group Chief Market Strategist Nick Colas tells Business Insider that the reaction from his clients “has been pretty uniform: it must be a ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday thanked Singapore for its military cooperation as the U.S. prepares to rotate ships through the prosperous city state to boost its presence in the Asia-Pacific. Obama met with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong , the third Asian leader t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Singapore 's prime minister on Tuesday becomes the third Asian leader to visit the White House this year, as President Barack Obama pursues closer ties with countries in the region in his second term. It will be Lee Hsien Loong 's first Oval Office meeting in six yea...
