Six-year boom pushes New York to mull Uber regulationShould Uber be forced to pay drivers better? After years of untamed growth, app-based for-hire services have brought New York's iconic yellow cabs to their knees and the city is mulling regulatory act...
Hitting cancer early: AstraZeneca’s bid to outmanoeuvre rivalsAstraZeneca suffered its biggest daily share price drop a year ago after a key cancer drug trial failed amid feverish speculation the chief executive might quit. Yet today two-thirds of analysts track...
Samsung Electronics posts 5.2% rise in Q2 profitSouth Korean telecom giant Samsung Electronics on Friday flagged a 5.2 percent rise in its second quarter operating profit from a year earlier, missing analyst estimates. Samsung's operating profit is...
Japan household spending drops sharplyJapan's household spending dropped nearly four percent in May from a year earlier, government data showed Friday, underlining an ongoing lack of appetite for consumption in the world's third-largest e...
Singapore moves to cool down resurgent property marketSingapore raised buyers' fees and tightened loan requirements from Friday to cool a resurgent property sector, warning that rising prices could be destabilising amid climbing interest rates. Private r...