Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Singapore ( ), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator.
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Motor racing business Formula One Group has decided to delay its initial public offer on the Singapore stock exchange because of global market weakness, the Wall Street Journal said on Friday, quoting unnamed sources.
It was worth up to $3 billion.Formula One, whose major shareholder is private equity firm CVC Capital Partners, was in pre-marketing mode and had been planning to launch a preliminary prospectus with the Monetary Authority of Singapore by June 5, the newspaper added.On Thursday, London luxury jeweller Graff Diamonds ditched its $1 billion IPO, adding to a chill that Facebook's botched IPO cast over an already moribund global market for new listings from Hong Kong to New York.(Reporting by Mark Bendeich; Editing by Paul Tait)...A Malaysian court on Thursday sentenced to death three Mexican brothers and two other people for drug trafficking, rejecting the defense argument that evidence was t...
Less than two weeks after being punished with new U.N. sanctions, North Korea has sent its ceremonial head of state and two top economic officials to Singapore and I...
Juventus coach Antonio Conte is under investigation and Lazio captain Stefano Mauri has been arrested as part of an Italian police probe into a widening match-fixing...
Investors unnerved by Spain's worsening financial condition and a report that China has no plans for a major economic stimulus dragged world stock markets lower Wedn...
Eduardo Saverin, who co-founded the world's largest social network with CEO Mark Zuckerberg, keeps a low profile on Facebook these days. Why? Even he's concerned abo...
The Pentagon chief said Tuesday building U.S. maritime strength across the Asia-Pacific region will be one of the main projects for the new generation of America's n...
Oil prices fell to below $90 a barrel Wednesday in Asia amid expectations Europe's sputtering economy will drag on global crude demand.Benchmark oil for July deliver...
Premier Mario Monti suggested Tuesday that Italian soccer be suspended for two to three years after the latest match-fixing scandal rocked the national team and agai...
Lady Gaga has met Thailand's premier "lady boys" at a Bangkok drag show featuring busty dancers who were not born that way.Diving in to the city's nightlife, the pop...
Oil bounced slightly off seven-month lows near $90 a barrel Thursday in Asia amid signs China's economy is continuing to slow.Benchmark oil for July delivery was up ...
It was supposed to be Cuba's economic savior: vast untapped reserves of black gold buried deep under the rocky ocean floor.But the first attempt in nearly a decade t...
Lady Gaga's manager says the pop diva has no plans to tone down her act, even if that prevents her from performing in some countries on her Asian tour.The Straits Ti...
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is traveling through Asia this week, determined to show the U.S. is serious about shifting its focus to the region, amid growing worri...
Oil prices started June where they left off in May; heading down.Crude slid to near $86 a barrel Friday in Asia, extending a month of sharp losses as traders looked ...
Fears of a sharp slowdown in the world's two largest economies, the U.S. and China, and concerns over the stability of Europe's currency union combined to batter glo...
While Syria is blaming rebel fighters for a weekend massacre in Houla, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says he doesn't see the U.S. taking military action without the...
Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Jonathan Greenert, on what's next for US fleets and partnerships in Asia-pacific
An American woman staying at a five-star Singapore hotel plunged 60 floors to her death, landing on a parapet above a Starbucks coffee outlet.The fall happened in th...
Voters dealt Singapore's ruling People's Action Party its third electoral setback in a year, allowing the opposition to hold onto a Parliament seat in a by-election ...
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