In line with its latest Stay True campaign, OCBC Bank Singapore strapped Dennis Tan, head of consumer financial services Singapore, to a lie detector for a live question and answer broadcast on Facebook. The segment was led by two cast members of SGAG ... ( read original story ...)
SIA taps SITA for mobile app improvement
Passengers can now access range of digital magazines through SIA mobile app. Singapore Airlines passengers will now be able to get free digital magazines on their devices. Now being assisted by the communications and IT solutions provider SITA, SIA offers ... ( read original story ...)
Asia Property Awards 2017 programme revamped to include 14 markets
Country winners from the aforementioned 14 markets advance to the seventh annual PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards grand final in Singapore on 7-8 November to compete for regional titles and be crowned the "best in Asia" in 2017. Last year's grand final ... ( read original story ...)
CEO pay at Singapore's DBS, OCBC, UOB shrank last year as profits fell
SINGAPORE (Nikkei Markets) -- The choppy Singapore economy ate into the pay checks of some of the city-state's best paid chief executives last year. Based on annual reports filed over the past two weeks, the CEOs of Singapore's three banking giants saw ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore tops auto sales risk-reward index in Southeast Asia
It scored 74.6 out of 100. Singapore leads the pack of Southeast Asian countries in terms of auto sales, said BMI Research. According to BMI Research’s auto sales risk-reward index (RRI), Singapore registered a score of 74.6 out of 100. This places the ... ( read original story ...)
Google-Backed Undersea Cable to Link Singapore, Australia
SubPartners originally announced a Perth-Singapore cable back in 2013, with the intent to finance the construction itself and allow other companies to buy capacity. But SubPartners struggled to attract seed money, according to IT News, so it restructured ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore's central bank likely not turning hawkish any time soon
Singapore's economy may be perking up, but the central bank isn't likely to turn hawkish at this month's policy review, analysts said. Khoon Goh, head of Asia research at ANZ, said in a note on Wednesday that the question wasn't really whether Singapore's ... ( read original story ...)
BlackRock sees Singapore office market improving as supply tapers
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - BlackRock (N:BLK) said the worst was over for Singapore's office property market with supply tapering off, and that elsewhere in Asia Pacific, the world's largest asset manager was looking to raise its real estate exposure in Japan ... ( read original story ...)
ASE Singapore Receives Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation Certification
SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. (TAIEX:2311, NYSE:ASX), a leading semiconductor assembly and test service provider, today announced that its Singapore IC testing and backend wafer level chip scale packaging facility ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore furniture fair attracts 22,000 traders
SINGAPORE: The 2017 International Furniture Fair Singapore, held in conjunction with the 34th Asean Furniture Show, drew 21,966 trade professionals from the furniture, interior design and furnishings industries, according to results released this week. The ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Customs confiscates non-duty paid cigarettes
SINGAPORE: The Customs officials confiscated cigarettes hidden in the hollow base of a wooden altar led to operations that netted more than 2,000 cartons of the smuggled goods. An Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officer noticed anomalies when ... ( read original story ...)
Illegal import of corals from the Philippines seized in Singapore
SINGAPORE: An illegal consignment of corals from the Philippines has been seized from an importer's premises, said the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) and the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) in a joint news release on Monday (Apr 3). ( read original story ...)
Unusual Group launches S$19.4m IPO via placement
Read also: How Kimly brewed its way to Singapore's first 'kopi-o IPO' The firm organises and promotes events such as concerts, mostly in Singapore. For the financial year ended December 2015, its net profit leapt to S$4.1 million from S$337,000 the year ... ( read original story ...)
ExxonMobil says in talks to buy Singapore's Jurong Aromatics
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - ExxonMobil said on Wednesday it is in ... Thomson Reuters publication Project Finance International reported on Tuesday. Borelli Walsh had been appointed the receivers and managers of JAC by lender BNP Paribas. Lotte Chemical Corp ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore remains committed to concluding review of India trade pact: MTI
SINGAPORE: Singapore remains committed to concluding the review of its free trade agreement with India and has not received any official notification from its Indian counterpart that the ongoing review has been put on hold, a spokesperson from the Ministry ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore minister K Shanmugam calls out “fake news” sites
K Shanmugam, Minister for Home Affairs & Minister for Law, has raised the red flag on the prevalence and impact of fake news in Singapore. In a recent Parliamentary discussion, addressing the issue, he talked about the real world consequences of fake news ... ( read original story ...)