Standard Chartered has continued its senior technology hiring drive in Singapore by recruiting veteran banking technologist Paul Beresford from DBS. Beresford has joined Stan Chart as a Singapore-based managing director and global head of retail products ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Airlines reveal double BED in business class for you to SHARE with a partner
Singapore Airlines has undergone a $850 million facelift, resulting in their best ever business class seat offering. The new cabins will be fitted in the airline's Airbus A38 fleet from next month. They will contain 471 seats in total: six Singapore ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Telecommunications’ (SGAPY) CEO Chua Sock Koong on Q2 2018 Results – Earnings Call Transcript
I will ask Moon to talk through the margins in - the revenue number in the Singapore mobile business, and then Samba will talk about the other GDL businesses. Kuan Moon Yuen Yes. Thank you, Sock Koong. First of all, I think the mobile revenue business and ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Airlines invests $850M in development, installation of new aircraft cabin electronics
The new cabin products will be fitted to Singapore Airlines’ Airbus A380 fleet starting in December 2017, when the first of five new A380 aircraft enter service. Retrofit work will also take place on 14 existing aircraft, to ensure product consistency ... ( read original story ...)
Electronics PMI growth dips by 0.3 points in October
The electronics sector purchasing managers' index (PMI) dropped 0.3 point from 53.6 to a slower expansion reading at 53.3 in October. According to the Singapore Institute of Purchasing & Materials Management (SIPMM), the electronics sector has now recorded ... ( read original story ...)
Courts Singapore to launch new-look megastore in Tampines, plus improved online shop
SINGAPORE - Courts Singapore, a leading home electronics, IT and furniture retailer here, will be launching its redesigned megastore in Tampines on Saturday (Nov 11), a highlight in its $10 million investment towards refurbishing all its islandwide retail ... ( read original story ...)
Finance minister Jaitley on two-day Singapore visit to discuss investments
Finance minister Arun Jaitley is visiting Singapore to showcase a slew of investor-friendly reforms undertaken by the government and discuss ideas to ramp up investments in India. Jaitley is leaving on Tuesday evening on a two-day official visit to Singapore. ( read original story ...)
Singapore rebar import prices drop again on poor demand
SINGAPORE: Import prices for rebar in Singapore continued to fall amid poor end-user demand in the country. Metal Bulletin’s price assessment for Southeast Asian rebar imports – which mainly looks at Chinese cargoes sold into Singapore on a theoretical ... ( read original story ...)
Unipec, Vitol place lowest offers in Bangladesh oil import tender -sources
SINGAPORE/DHAKA, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Oil traders Unipec and Vitol placed the lowest offers in a tender by Bangladesh Petroleum Corp to buy up to 1.27 million tonnes of oil products for import in the first half of 2018, three industry sources said on Tuesday. ( read original story ...)
Import of sugar gets govt nod
Singapore-based Agrocorp International PTE Ltd has got the ... with Finance Minister AMA Muhith in the chair. The company will import sugar at $465.27 per tonne as the lowest bidder among two. Industries ministry officials said the government has decided ... ( read original story ...)
Man fined $10,000 for illegally importing zebra dove, first to be hit with maximum penalty
SINGAPORE - A 74-year-old man was fined $10,000 by the Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority (AVA) for illegally importing a zebra dove and bringing unnecessary suffering and pain to it. This is the first time that the maximum penalty for illegally importing ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore MPs question their government’s stance on vaping
The consequence of Singapore’s strict e-cig import and sales regulations is a thriving black market. Last March, the Senior Minister of State for Health Amy Khor, said that the legal age for smoking and buying tobacco products in Singapore would be ... ( read original story ...)
Sri Lanka-Singapore final FTA discussions tomorrow: Malik
Some of the top Sri Lankan exports to Singapore include petroleum oils (other than crude), tea, rubber tyres, previous/semi-precious stone, flour, and fish, while Sri Lanka imports mainly petroleum products, machinery, electronic equipment, chemicals ... ( read original story ...)
This Expat Imports Coffee From Japanese Roasters So We Can Appreciate Brews Beyond Kopi
Importing her beans straight from her favourite roasters in ... “For me, all the projects that I am involved in Singapore varies, but there is one thing in common; I do things that make both people around me and myself happy.” For this coffee business ... ( read original story ...)
Oil dips on lower crude imports from China
SINGAPORE: Oil prices fell on Wednesday as Chinese crude imports slipped to their lowest level in a year, although traders said the overall market remains well supported because of Opec-led supply cuts. Traders said they were closely eyeing escalating ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore steps up fintech initiatives
SINGAPORE: The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) unveiled a raft of new initiatives on Wednesday to further the city’s push into financial technology, including a project to improve banks’ ability to detect money launderers and others on blacklists ... ( read original story ...)