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(Bloomberg) -- Singapore’s goal of becoming a high-tech financial hub are running into real-world problems of labor supply and demand. Technology startups in many countries are fighting to attract skilled workers like software engineers. Yet in the tiny ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore Exchange Ltd. said it will delay the start of its new Indian stock futures contracts, as a court dispute in Mumbai heads to arbitration. SGX, which is battling with National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. over Indian derivatives in the city-state ... ( read original story ...)

SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - North Korea has dispatched top officials to the United States and Singapore, media reported on Tuesday, the latest indication that the on-again-off-again summit with U.S. President Donald Trump may go ahead. North Korea’s Kim Yong ... ( read original story ...)

A North Korea/US summit between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump has become more likely in recent days. Photograph: KOREA SUMMIT PRESS POOL / MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA A top aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrived in Singapore on Monday night, a Japanese ... ( read original story ...)

Meanwhile, U.S. government officials, flew to Singapore from U.S. Yokota Air Base in Japan ... Bradford Betz is an editor for Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @bradford_betz. ( read original story ...)

The North Korean envoy is expected to travel to the US imminently for senior-level talks to reciprocate recent visits by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, South Korean news agency Yonhap ... Joe Hagin arrived in Singapore on Monday, and is leading ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - A top aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Singapore on Monday night, Japanese public broadcaster NHK said Tuesday, the latest indication that the on-again-off-again summit with U.S. President Donald Trump is going ahead. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - A top aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Singapore on Monday night, Japanese public broadcaster NHK said Tuesday, the latest indication that the on-again-off-again summit with U.S. President Donald Trump is going ahead. ( read original story ...)

"We need to do away with some of the unnecessary projects, for example the high-speed rail, which is going to cost us RM110bn ($28bn) and will not earn us a single cent. That will be dropped," Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad told the Financial Times. ( read original story ...)

CBS News foreign correspondent Ben Tracy and Gordon Chang, author of "Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the world," explain the latest developments to CBSN.. A U.S.-North Korea summit in Singapore next months remains very much in play, and South Korean... ( read original story ...)

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia is cancelling a project to build a high-speed rail link between its capital, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore, and will talk with its southern neighbor about any compensation Malaysia has to pay, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad ... ( read original story ...)

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia is dropping a plan for a high-speed rail link between its capital, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore, and will talk with its southern neighbor about the agreement to build it, Malaysia’s prime minister said in an interview ... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Singapore Exchange Ltd. and National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. have abandoned talks on a cross-border trading link, according to people familiar with the matter, amid a bitter court battle that’s soured an 18-year partnership. ( read original story ...)

Singapore Exchange Ltd. and National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. have abandoned talks on a cross-border trading link, according to people familiar with the matter, amid a bitter court battle that’s soured an 18-year partnership. The companies couldn’t ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Surprised Singaporeans pursued North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sunday before realizing the portly man with slick black hair near the Marina Bay Sands hotel was an impersonator. “It looked like the real Kim Jong Un, but later I ... ( read original story ...)

in response to this year’s biennale titled ‘freespace’, the singapore pavilion asks if there is indeed ‘no more free space?’ in the island state, acting as a testimony of how the creative freedom of mind has the power to turn space constraints ... ( read original story ...)