USS Freedom, the first of up to four American warships Singapore will host, docked at Changi Naval Base on Thursday 18 April, 2013. (photo by Dylan Loh, Channel NewsAsia) SINGAPORE: A US warship designed to fight in coastal areas arrived Thursday in Singapore for its Southeast Asian deployment, underlining President ... Read More

In his budget proposal for 2013, US president Barack Obama called for more money to be fed into cyber security to protect the country from cyber attacks. President Barack Obama proposed on Wednesday increased spending to protect U.S. computer networks from Internet-based attacks in a sign that the government aims to ... Read More

Alcoa has retained its forecast of demand for aluminium to grow by 7% in 2013, but has changed its views on the demand-supply balance. Photo: Bloomberg Firm expects lower production due to slower capacity additions Alcoa Inc., the largest US aluminium producer, has not changed its forecasted growth in demand in ... Read More

A model listens to music on her iPod backstage during Olympus Fashion Week in New York on September 15, 2005. (Getty Images/AFP/File - Mat Szwajkos) WASHINGTON: Illegal music downloading by American consumers fell last year, continuing a trend from 2005, a survey showed. The survey from NPD Group found that the ... Read More

LOS ANGELES: At least two people were killed Tuesday when a masked gunman opened fire at a mall in the western US state of Oregon, sparking panic before apparently turning the gun on himself, police said. At least one person was also injured in Clackamas, south of Portland, a sheriff's spokesman ... Read More

WASHINGTON: British bank Standard Chartered will pay the United States $327 million to settle charges it violated US sanctions on Iran as well as on Myanmar, Libya and Sudan, the US Treasury announced Monday. US authorities said the bank had stripped messages on financial transfers routed through US banks of information ... Read More

WASHINGTON: The United States and Israel downplayed on Thursday the Palestinians' new upgraded status at the UN, saying it changed nothing in actual practice and even made peace with the Jewish state a remoter prospect. Palestinians rejoiced at the historic albeit largely symbolic vote at the UN General Assembly in New ... Read More

NEW YORK: US shoppers spent heavily online on the crucial Black Friday shopping day, for the first time topping a billion dollars in online sales in a single day, analysts and retailers said. The four-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend is the kickoff to the US holiday shopping season, and Black Friday has ... Read More