“Singapore’s insistence that transgender people must remain ... women’s rights, trafficking, property rights, climate change and resilience. Visit http://news.trust.org) ( read original story ...)
Keppel Corporation Limited’s Latest Result: Offshore & Marine Segment Continues to Face Challenges
Keppel Corporation Limited (SGX: BN4) is a conglomerate with four major business segments, namely, Offshore & Marine, Property, Infrastructure ... investment or financial advice. Motley Fool Singapore contributor Lawrence Nga doesn’t own shares in ... ( read original story ...)
Asia Stocks Mixed as U.S. Dollar Seeks Direction
Property developer Sunac China Holdings announced it agreed ... the Kospi index retreated 11.63 points, or 0.5%, to 2,439.90 In Singapore, the Straits Times Index gained 17.03 points, or 0.5%, to 3,327.83 In New Zealand, the NZX 50 heightened 30.77 points ... ( read original story ...)
Standard Chartered : We’ve appointed Kevin Burke as Global Head, Financial Markets Sales
Standard Chartered has appointed Kevin Burke as Global Head, Financial Markets Sales. Kevin will be based in Singapore and report to Roberto Hoornweg, Global Head, Financial Markets. His appointment is effective 10 July 2017. Kevin has more than 26 years ... ( read original story ...)
Keep different currencies together with SCB’s ‘Multicurrency Forex Card’
Standard Chartered Bank said in a statement. Some of the currencies that can be loaded are the US dollar, Euro, British Pound, Singapore dollar, Swiss franc, Thai baht, Japanese Yen and South African rand, it said. "The card will also provide forex rate ... ( read original story ...)
Travel smart with Standard Chartered’s ‘Multicurrency Forex Card’
Standard Chartered Bank said in a statement. Some of the currencies that can be loaded are the US dollar, Euro, British Pound, Singapore dollar, Swiss franc, Thai baht, Japanese Yen and South African rand, it said. "The card will also provide forex rate ... ( read original story ...)
Standard Chartered builds on securities services team
He has experience in broker clearing, and in direct and international custody fields, working in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and the UK. According to Standard Chartered, the appointment is part of a wider investment into the securities services business. ( read original story ...)
TBWAChiatDay New York Expands Leadership With Two New Hires
TBWA's global clients include adidas, Apple, Gatorade, Henkel, McDonald's, Michelin, Nissan, Pernod Ricard, Pfizer, Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore Airlines, Sotheby's and Vichy. Follow TBWA on Twitter and Instagram and like us on Facebook. View ... ( read original story ...)
New Singapore air terminal automates departures with face recognition
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - When a new terminal opens in 2017 at Singapore's Changi Airport, the world's best for five years straight according to a survey, passengers will be able to, in theory, go through check-in to boarding without speaking to another person ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Airlines’ LCC arm Scoot to fly to Honolulu via Osaka
SINGAPORE -- Singapore Airlines' low-cost arm Scoot announced on Tuesday that it will fly a new route, to Honolulu via Osaka. The route will give a new low-cost option for Japanese travelers to popular holiday destinations Hawaii and Singapore. It also ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Airlines shifts routes to budget arm Scoot amid strategic review
said it would transfer to Scoot its services from Singapore to Kuching, Malaysia and from the city-state to Palembang, Indonesia from October and November, respectively. "There are sometimes opportunities whereby the budget side of the business can do a ... ( read original story ...)
Waning medical tourism forces rethink in Singapore
SINGAPORE -- The Mount Elizabeth Novena hospital is a sprawling, modern complex just north of Singapore's central business district. Inside, it is packed with small, specialist clinics -- a high-class mega-mall for medicine that serves the local market and ... ( read original story ...)
Business at Teochew porridge stall not affected by brawls: Eatery manager
SINGAPORE - Fights may have erupted twice at the Heng Long Teochew Porridge shop along Upper Serangoon Road but they have not been bad for business. A manager of the eatery, who declined to be named, said the brawls have brought publicity for the porridge ... ( read original story ...)
Access over 600 million consumers by doing business in Singapore
Singapore is the de-facto launch-pad into ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations); a collection of nation states home to over 600 million consumers with increasing spending power. It’s for this reason that Enterprise Nation’s third trade ... ( read original story ...)
Over 8,300 SMEs to benefit from industry-led projects: Spring, IE Singapore
... to aggregate the needs of the industry and source for suitable solutions to help SMEs strengthen business capabilities," said Spring Singapore chief executive Poon Hong Yuen. Of the 28 industry development and internationalisation projects supported ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore celebrates National Day at Astana Expo 2017
Both countries recently concluded negotiations on a Bilateral Investment Treaty which will open up more business and investment opportunities for Singapore and Kazakhstan businesses. There are about 100 Kazakhstan companies registered in Singapore to date ... ( read original story ...)