October 16, 2018 7:15 AMGood morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Tuesday, Oct 16.

October 16, 2018 7:31 AMSINGAPORE (THE NEW PAPER) - Fast-food chain Burger King has stopped giving dine-in customers straws and plastic lids for cold drinks in its 42 outlets here as of Monday (Oct 15).

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AFTER selling 7,220 private homes in the first nine months, developers are gearing up for a final burst of launch activity before taking the traditional year-end breather.

JLL has appointed valuations heavyweight Lim Khee Boon as senior director for its institutional cross-border valuations for South-east Asia, as the consultancy seeks to win more cross-border portfolio valuation work across Asia.

LOWER contributions from several properties took a toll on office landlord Keppel Reit in its third quarter.

October 16, 2018 5:00 AMShe was born a Chinese, but raised as a Malay. 

October 16, 2018 5:00 AMA first-of-its-kind contract for government ad spending has been awarded to media agency Starcom.

October 16, 2018 5:00 AMThe stress caregivers suffer can lead to feelings of hopelessness and cause some to neglect their own needs.

October 16, 2018 5:00 AMA parking warden skipped her patrols, claiming that she had to take care of her ailing grandmother - and tried to hoodwink her bosses by issuing summonses to motorists who had not broken any rules.

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un will have leverage, and the pressure will be on the US to give up something he finds appealing, says commentator Steven Borowiec.

YANGON: Riot police rushed to the scene of clashes at a strike-hit Myanmar garment factory on Monday (Oct 15) after protesting workers say dozens were injured when they were attacked by a mob of "hired thugs". The predominantly female workers started picketing the Chinese-owned Fu Yuen Garment Co ...

Moon Jae-In is on a seven-day tour of Europe where he is expected to update leaders in Paris, Rome and Brussels on the rapidly thawing relations between Seoul and Pyongyang.

Chinese premier Li Keqiang on Monday called for free trade to be protected, as political tensions and a trade war with the United States escalated.

Here are the startups that are on the path to becoming the next big thing?

The private equity firm has invested in Adicon at a time when demand for private healthcare is growing in China.

DHAKA: Bangladeshi newspaper editors on Monday (Oct 15) staged a protest demanding sweeping amendments to a newly enacted digital law that journalists and rights groups say will curb freedom of expression. Critics say the measures - including prison sentences for spreading "negative propaganda" ...

YANGON: Dozens of Myanmar garment workers were injured on Monday after a clash with assailants wielding iron bars outside a Chinese-owned factory in Yangon, witnesses and hospital staff said. Hundreds of employees of Fu Yuen Garment Co Ltd, which produces clothes for German supermarket chain Lidl ...

Hours after a mechanised harvester chugged through the rice paddy, flames and a thick plume of black smoke rose into the twilight sky in India's northern Haryana state as farmers burned the residue to prepare for the next season's planting.

Indian government minister M.J. Akbar filed a defamation suit against one of at least 10 women accusing him of sexual harassment on Monday, calling her allegations false and malicious.

October 16, 2018 7:35 AMLONDON (NYTIMES) - For many Americans, the news on Monday morning (Oct 15) that Ms Meghan Markle was expecting a royal baby came as a welcome injection of delight into the depressing drumbeat of politics and animosity that normally fill the nation's news feeds.

October 16, 2018 7:23 AMWASHINGTON (WASHINGTON POST) - A federal judge on Monday (Oct 15) dismissed a lawsuit from adult film actress Stormy Daniels in which she claimed that President Donald Trump defamed her when he suggested her allegation that she was threatened to stay quiet about their relationship was a lie.

Biproxi is helping the industry professionals to list, find, and close more deals with its verified collection of buyers, sellers, tenants, and brokers. Continue reading There’s a new end2end middle-market commercial prop platform in the US at Property Portal Watch.

October 16, 2018 6:48 AMBENGALURU (REUTERS) - Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen, who had been suffering from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of cancer, died at the age of 65 on Monday (Oct 15), his family said.

October 16, 2018 6:13 AMWASHINGTON (REUTERS) - A group of young Americans suing the federal government over lack of action to fight climate change can proceed with their lawsuit, but US President Donald Trump cannot be named as a defendant, a federal judge ruled on Monday (Oct 15).

October 16, 2018 6:00 AMA selection of news stories that happened overnight, Oct 16, 2018.

October 16, 2018 5:00 AMWASHINGTON • US President Donald Trump said he believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin "probably" has been involved in assassinations and poisonings, but he appeared to dismiss the gravity of those actions, noting that they have not taken place in the United States.

October 16, 2018 4:34 AMDUBAI (REUTERS) - Yemen's Western- and Gulf-backed president sacked his prime minister on Monday (Oct 15), blaming him for the economic crisis in a country devastated by war, according to a statement carried by the loyalist SABA state news agency.

October 16, 2018 5:00 AMDeputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean yesterday had an audience with Jordan's King Abdullah II during a visit in which both sides reaffirmed their warm and longstanding bilateral ties.

October 16, 2018 5:00 AMBERLIN • German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government looked more fragile than ever yesterday after two of its three parties suffered severe election setbacks in the state of Bavaria.