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SINGAPORE: You may not be able to feel it yet, but the pressure on your wallet should start easing in the coming months. Your lunchtime chicken rice will still be getting costlier - but at a slower rate. And if you are lucky, the cost of a new shirt
TOKYO: Earnings reports from Chinese tech companies last week should be a wake-up call for Beijing. Alibaba Group and JD.com pulled out all the stops to attract customers to spend during their 618 shopping festival, a Black Friday-like extravaganza
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2024-10-08SINGAPORE: In his maiden National Day Rally speech on Sunday (Aug 18)zamsino, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong unveiled two initiatives that could prove transformative to families and society: Making mandatory four weeks of government-paid paternity lea