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(28 April)   The Hong Kong Jin Tian Eating House in Singapore has stopped selling the savoury roast duck and pork ribs that drew crowds for a generation, the latest to close down due to escalating rents and difficulty in finding workers. The eatery run by Yip Chan Yuk Ying, a Hong Kong-born Singapore citizen, shut its doors... 

Tiger Airways has been hurt by growing competition in the low-cost travel market. (5 May)   Shares in Singapore-based budget carrier Tiger Airways slumped by as much as 8%, to a one-month low, after it posted widening losses. The firm saw its losses rise to $96m Singapore dollars ($76m; £45m) in the January-to-March quarter,... 

Thai Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, leaves the Constitutional Court in Bangkok, Thailand on May 6, 2014. The court said the ruling invalidated Yingluck’s ministerial status, creating doubt about her caretaker government’s ability to continue until an election the Election Commission has agreed to hold July 20. (7 May)...