Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said last night. He noted that the world is being roiled by major structural changes, but Singapore will be well placed to meet the challenges if firms and individuals can adapt quickly enough and build up strong capabilities. ( read original story ...)
Nigeria, Singapore trade volume hits N846bn – Adeosun
She announced this in Abuja at the signing of an agreement on avoidance of double taxation with Singapore. The balance of trade net of petroleum export stood at N42bn in favour of Singapore, while the volume of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore PMI Rises
July’s reading was lifted by improvements in new domestic and export orders, though a dip in employment ... semiconductors—has given Singapore’s manufacturing sector a shot in the arm. ( read original story ...)
Product Tankers: Market Seems to Take A Step Back, but Trade Still Quite Impressive Says Shipbroker
At the start of 2017, exports to South East Asia (+44% YoY) grew strongly underpinned by trade with Singapore, while North East Asia (+2% YoY) was relatively stagnant. Another important development at the start of the year is that second‐tier ... ( read original story ...)
Nigeria, Singapore agree to protect investors from double taxation
The volume of trade between the two countries from 2011 to 2015 stands at N846 billion, the absolute Balance of Trade was N222 billion in favour of Nigeria while Balance of Trade net of petroleum export stood at N42 billion in favour of Singapore. ( read original story ...)
Free trade pacts in age of disruption
And it benefits Singapore's partners too, as there is wide agreement among economists that it is free trade, rather than a zero-sum mercantilist approach, that can boost exports, offer a greater choice of goods and enable nations to focus on areas where ... ( read original story ...)
OPEC wants oil above $50, but US shale producers won’t play along
"It's still sheikhs versus shale," said John Driscoll, director of JTD Energy Services in Singapore and a former oil trader whose ... Gulf producers could hold back oil from the export market to feed higher demand from domestic power generators during ... ( read original story ...)
Protesters in Kenya call for swift inquiry into election official’s murder
In tonight's edition, protesters in Kenya call for swift inquiry into election official murder, tens of thousands of Ethiopian illegal workers are forced out of Saudi Arabia and African video game designers export ... In Singapore, we meet some of the ... ( read original story ...)
Is time up for plain vanilla flavour ice creams?
While taro and red bean recipes might be harder to export, matcha (green tea ... the prickly Asian fruit that smells so bad it's illegal to carry it on the subway in Singapore. An acquired taste. ( read original story ...)
Standard Chartered eyes New York energy trading, bucks Wall Street trend: sources
NEW YORK/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Standard Chartered is planning to launch an energy trading business in New York, two sources familiar with the matter said, in what appears to be the first major bank move into the sector in the United States after years of ... ( read original story ...)
Indian-origin man robs petrol pump employee in Singapore
SINGAPORE: An Indian-origin man in Singapore has allegedly ... faces a maximum of 10 years in jail and at least 12 strokes of caning if found guilty, reported Channel News Asia. Police were alerted at around 12.50 pm after the suspect fled the petrol ... ( read original story ...)
With Amazon hot on its heels, StarHub is ready to find partners
SINGAPORE -- With the entrance of Amazon.com to Singapore ... due to a drop in service revenue from mobile and Pay-TV services, as well as lower income grants and an increase in the cost of sales and services. Revenue in the second quarter fell 1.1% ... ( read original story ...)
The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run
This means that – compared to local radio, mobile phone and television signals – fewer waves ... shortwave stations like the BBC World Service are aimed at audiences from Senegal to Singapore. Both stations are broadcast from the same building. ( read original story ...)
StarHub’s Q2 revenue slightly declines, net profit drops 21%
Singapore operator StarHub saw its service revenue decline 2 percent year-on-year to SGD 1.08 billion in the first half of 2017. The decline was due to lower mobile, broadband and pay-TV service revenues, the company said. Consequently, total revenue was ... ( read original story ...)
Malaysian Woman Falls Victim To Gang-Rape After Getting Drunk
3 suspects went on trial in Singapore yesterday (Tuesday ... Word on the street is that Le’s mobile phone, which contains messages about him boasting about having sex with the victim, had also been confiscated as part of the evidence. ( read original story ...)
Easy Medicine! Price Of Viagra In Singapore
Price of viagra in singapore located this have ethnic proteins of to are ... yet number in director of and addictive home unequal slow than our surgery the HDL mobile causes, live notes cell knew receive reveals ABHI, to of harm them determine involved ... ( read original story ...)