But buying commercial space or a residential unit in Australia or Japan is very different from making a similar investment in Singapore. Each country has its own set of laws and regulations governing the acquisition of property by foreigners. Additionally ... ( read original story ...)
What Have We Learned From The Singapore Marathon
Why is there such a chasm between experiences for those who are faithful to this event? We take a look at this year’s Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore run—staged on the 3rd and 4th of December. Known as the gold standard of Southeast Asia ... ( read original story ...)
Why banks are cutting jobs in Singapore, and why they're unlikely to return
Barclays may make redundant over 100 jobs in Singapore; Standard Chartered, with just under 10% of its roughly 86,000 strong workforce in Singapore, will cut up to 15,000 jobs globally; HSBC hopes to streamline its operations by cutting close to 14% of ... ( read original story ...)
Standard Chartered opens flagship digital branch in Taipei
Senior executives from enterprises in Singapore got together to discuss data security, policy, sovereignty and privacy earlier this year. Participants included representatives from the financial, hospitality and telecommunications sectors. Topics of ... ( read original story ...)
Can You Believe These Singapore Running Events Changed People’s Lives?
The story: Chef Tam Chua Puh had a plan in mind and finished first in the Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore 2013. Race officials were shocked. Hours later, organisers had to disqualify Tam and declare Mok Ying Ren the winner. Was Tam guilty of being ... ( read original story ...)
Misbehaving moneymen put Singapore regulator on high alert
“There’s a real emphasis in making sure that if you want to be a serious global financial center like Singapore wants to be, you’ve got to abide by the rules.” – Fined Standard Chartered Plc, Coutts & Co, UBS Group AG and DBS Group Holdings Ltd ... ( read original story ...)
Migrant workers in Singapore reveal hidden poetry talents on stage
Nath has a diploma in engineering, but has worked in a Singapore shipyard for nearly two years, sending money home to his parents in their rural village. All 17 competitors nervously waiting their turn on the stage are migrant workers, whose daily lives of ... ( read original story ...)
HR job moves from Grab, NTU, HSBC, Willis Towers Watson, and more
She joined the company in September 2014, where she was previously talent acquisition lead for senior hiring across global functions for HSBC, including marketing ... a newly-created role. Based in Singapore, his remit includes leading business operations ... ( read original story ...)
Slow start, but future remains bright for ASEAN Economic Community: Analysts
But one year on from its inception, about 74 per cent of Singapore companies polled in a recent Singapore Business Federation (SBF) survey said they do not think the AEC has benefited them. Associate Professor Simon Tay, chairman of the Singapore Institute ... ( read original story ...)
Video Maker Who Tested Singapore’s Limits Seeks U.S. Asylum
Mr. Yee absorbed the news differently, posting a video on YouTube titled ... after Mr. Yee’s most recent conviction. In Singapore, “people are extremely sensitive,” said Melissa Chen, a Singaporean human rights activist who is now a legal permanent ... ( read original story ...)
Businesses not satisfied with policies
Transformation of the economy was the keystone of Budget 2016. But many local businesses are not taking steps to change, the latest National Business Survey released by the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) yesterday showed. About six in 10 of small- and ... ( read original story ...)
Mortgage rates rise for a record 9th week in a row
Mortgage rates have gone up nine weeks in a row -- something that's happened only one other time in the last 31 years. But that doesn't tell the whole story. Mortgage rates have risen 12 of the last 13 weeks. Guess what happened that one week when they ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore defaults a bellwether for Asia
Analysts are predicting potential defaults on bond issuances by property developers. Singapore saw five companies, including oil services firms Swiber Holdings and Swissco Holdings, default on nearly S$1 billion of bonds this year, revealed a Bloomberg report. ( read original story ...)
India and Singapore to hold talks on tax treaty amendments
Finance minister Arun Jaitley will hold talks with Singapore's deputy prime minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam to conclude the protocol to amend DTAA to modify capital gains tax exemption. At present, Singapore-based companies could take advantage of this ... ( read original story ...)
Controversial Singapore teen blogger seeks US asylum
Amos Yee, 18, a filmmaker turned activist who has been repeatedly jailed in Singapore for his controversial videos, has been detained by US authorities since he arrived at Chicago's airport early December. "Soon his case will be referred to an immigration ... ( read original story ...)
Trade agreement with Singapore to ‘put Tasmania on world stage’
TASMANIANS will be able to sell goods and services into Singapore more easily following changes to Australia’s trade agreement with the global finance hub. The amended Singapore-Australia Free Trade Agreement will allow a range of service providers and ... ( read original story ...)