Singapore's Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) inked agreements with Shanghai-based institutions to support collaboration in areas including trade finance, corporate and investment banking and loans and cross-border financing. The bank’s group chief ... ( read original story ...)
Manulife Acquires 8 Cross Street In Singapore
TORONTO, April 11, 2017 /CNW/ - Manulife Real Estate today announced that it has acquired 8 Cross Street, a 28-storey, 355,000 square foot, Class A office tower located in Singapore. The transaction, valued at US$526 million, is the second largest in ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore REITs: Do they still possess long term value?
Singapore REITs: Do they still possess long term value? Globally, real estate investment trusts (REITs) have become a popular way for investors to invest in property while at the same time receiving an income. This is particularly true in Singapore, which ... ( read original story ...)
“Fake news” used in Southeast Asia to justify tighter media laws
Several governments in Southeast Asia are invoking the fake news problem to introduce stricter laws and to harass members of the media. Singapore's Minister for Communications and Information Yaacob Ibrahim announced to the Parliament a government plan to ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore's disciplined plan for economic resurgence
Singapore faces a rough year ... The fourth quarter of 2016 saw manufacturing – especially the electronics sector – bounce back, and signs point to the surge spilling over into the first half of 2017. But he expressed reservations that the recovering ... ( read original story ...)
Cheap Flights to Singapore Changi
The city has long been known as a shopper's paradise where you can buy just about anything from trendy electronics and the latest designer couture to herbal medicines and Malay crafts. Just a few miles away from the skyscrapers in Singapore's teeming ... ( read original story ...)
Supercomputing Frontiers 2017: Advancing HPC in Singapore
electronics, finance, healthcare, and marine and offshore engineering. NSCC’s task, he said, is thus to build the computational infrastructure needed to support Singapore’s universities, research institutes and industry. Supercomputing for Singapore ... ( read original story ...)
Getting To Grips With The Trade Payables Management Of Venture Corporation Ltd
Venture Corporation Ltd (SGX: V03) is an electronics manufacturing services provider ... is not intended to be personalised investment or financial advice. Motley Fool Singapore contributor Lawrence Nga doesn’t own shares in any companies mentioned. ( read original story ...)
Global Sources Electronics show opens today with 6,200 booths in two phases
The Global Sources Electronics show and Startup Launchpad are supported by industry organizations and technology partners including the Association of Telecommunications Industry of Singapore, China Smart Home Industry Alliance, Dongguan Electronic ... ( read original story ...)
20 stores affected in 7-hour power cut at Junction 8
SINGAPORE - Shoppers and stores at Bishan's Junction 8 Shopping ... Shops affected at the mall at 9 Bishan Place include electronics chain Best Denki, BreadTalk, FairPrice supermarket and several restaurants. Some of the amenities such as escalators ... ( read original story ...)
Ultra-thin multilayer film for next-generation data storage and processing
Assoc Prof Yang and his team are currently looking at how nanoscale skyrmions interact with each other and with electrical currents, to further the development of skyrmion based electronics. National University of Singapore. (2017, April 10). Ultra-thin ... ( read original story ...)
Asia Mixed Wednesday
Shares of Toshiba were up 1% Electronics giant Samsung Electronics shares were ... the Taiex lost 20.2 points, or 0.2%, to 9,856.25 In Singapore, the Straits Times Index jumped 26.75 points, or 0.9%, to 3,184.57 In New Zealand, the NZX 50 moved up 68.34 ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore SMEs going places
The Business Times and OCBC Bank are joint organisers of the award which first started in 1998. Into its 10th year, other partners are MasterCard, Acorn Marketing and Research Consultants, Insead, Spring Singapore, Singtel, Maxus and RSM, which is also the ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Customs seizes 322 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes
SINGAPORE: SINGAPORE – A sizeable haul of duty-unpaid cigarettes was seized from a Singapore-registered car at Woodlands Checkpoint on Friday (April 7), the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said in a press release. The car was stopped by ICA ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore set to roll out driverless buses by 2020
... bus prototype unveiled in Singapore on 10 April 2017.Singapore Land Transport Authority/ST Kinetics He said the project will tap into cybersecurity experts from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, the NUS and the Singapore University of ... ( read original story ...)
“Where’s The Market Going Next?”
Due to my job with the Motley Fool Singapore, in which I write about my observations on the stock market and help pick stocks for our newsletter services Stock Advisor Singapore and Stock Advisor Gold, I do get asked such questions quite a fair bit. ( read original story ...)