The irony that the man who transformed India’s economy at a key moment in its history, reversing years of socialism, should pay tribute to India’s founding father who first powered the Indian economy,

A Singaporean businessman, his wife and two children have paid $1 million to become the first Asian family to fly together on space-tourism airline Virgin Galactic, the company announced on Monday.

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Oil prices jumped to near $92 a barrel on Thursday in Asia after European leaders agreed on a plan to reduce Greece's debt burden.

Pride seems to have gotten in the way of sound policy-making in India, where a headstrong RBI refuses to concede defeat in its quest to bring down equally stubborn inflation.

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Businesses along Singapore's famous Orchard Road shopping street plan to deploy trained hawks to scare off thousands of birds whose droppings rain down on pedestrians' heads, a report said on Wednesda

A fire has intensified at Royal Dutch Shell's largest refinery, its half-a-million barrel per day Singapore plant, sending a plume of black smoke over the city-state.

Shell has evacuated non-essentia

Sebastian Vettel demonstrated his vast supremacy on Sunday when he won the Singapore Grand Prix to move within a point of becoming the youngest double world champion in Formula One history.

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Gold slipped more than 1 per cent on Friday, heading for its biggest weekly drop since March 2009, as stock markets gained and the euro rose after major central banks around the world strived to fight

Asian stocks fell on Friday as a $447 billion jobs package from U.S. President Barack Obama failed to entice investors back into equities amid concerns that political wrangling could see it watered do

Former deputy prime minister Tony Tan secured victory after a recount in Singapore's presidential election on Sunday, the razor-thin winning margin exposing sharp divisions in the electorate.

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