The IPO would follow last year’s listing of Warburg Pincus-backed Vincom Retail JSC VRE.HM, Vietnam’s biggest shopping mall operator and also a unit of Vingroup, which raised roughly $700 million. The participation of Singapore sovereign wealth fund ... ( read original story ...)
Vietnam’s Vingroup picks banks for $1 bln IPO of property unit: Sources
SINGAPORE: Conglomerate Vingroup JSC , Vietnam's biggest property developer, has picked four foreign banks to work on a planned IPO of its residential property unit that could raise about $1 billion, sources familiar with the matter said. Vingroup has ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore: ICA seizes 121 live birds, 4,500 sachets of chewing tobacco at Woodlands Checkpoint
Singapore's Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA ... CITES permits are required for any import, export and re-export of CITES species, including their parts and products. Under the Endangered Species (Import and Export) Act, offenders can be fined ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s UOL eager to bulk up overseas property portfolio
SINGAPORE -- Local real estate developer UOL Group is keen to buy more properties overseas, especially in London, as part of an effort to slowly diversify its portfolio. "We are Singapore-centric, but moving forward, we want to move a little bit of our ... ( read original story ...)
Ex-property agents plead guilty to illegal short-term rentals
Nonetheless, she revealed that the company is committed to working with the government in finding a legislative solution that suits the city-state. Interested in renting a property in Singapore? Check out our collection of guides. ( read original story ...)
My big career change from tech consultancy to Singapore investment banking
Here’s how I managed it. https://news.efinancialcareers.com/sg-en/309392/smu-msc-in-applied-finance-sc/ Kathy Zhou stood out from her peers when she joined the analyst training programme at an investment bank in Singapore in 2016. Most of the new ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Post Limited’s Share Price Rose By 14% In 2018: What Could Be The Reason?
Singapore Post Limited (SGX: S08) or SingPost is a mail and logistics company, organised into three major segments of Mail/Postal, Logistics, and Retail & eCommerce. Since the beginning of the year, the company’s stock price surged by 14%. In this ... ( read original story ...)
Govt to observe Singapore’s proposed digital business tax
SINGAPORE: The government will keep tabs on the proposed tax ... to impose GST on imported digital services in the near future, with the Royal Malaysian Customs Department currently working on the statutory amendments to enable the enforcement. ( read original story ...)
Vietnamese gets 15 months’ jail for importing rhino horns from Angola without a permit
SINGAPORE - A Vietnamese construction worker was on transit ... was sentenced to 15 months' jail for importing these items from Angola without a permit. On Aug 31 last year, acting on a tip-off, Air Checkpoints Branch customs officers stopped Hai and ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore PPI Falls For Second Month
Singapore's producer prices declined for the second successive ... reversing a 0.8 rise in December. Data also revealed that import prices slid 0.3 percent yearly in January, following a 0.4 percent drop in the preceding month. Export prices dipped 2.3 ... ( read original story ...)
Asia-Pacific imports of high-protein wheat likely to drop as regional output grows
“China will not export high-protein wheat, but higher (domestic) output will take care of some of its own demand which is (typically) met through imports,” the Singapore trader said. China is the world’s top consumer, producer and importer of whea ( read original story ...)
Sinopec plans to import more oil from U.S.
China Petroleum & Chemical Corp, China's largest oil refiner, is expected to import 10 million metric tons of crude oil from the United States this year, said the company, also known as Sinopec. Unipec Singapore Pte Ltd, a trading unit of Sinopec ... ( read original story ...)
US aluminium import tariffs short-term bullish – Report
A Singapore-based trader suggested that “It is hard to quantify ... US aluminium premiums will rise should the US impose import tariffs and quotas on aluminium and aluminium products, market observers agree. American Metal Market’s assessment of ... ( read original story ...)
China raises anti dumping duties on MMA imports
BEIJING: China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Tuesday it will impose higher anti-dumping measures on methyl methacrylate (MMA) imported from Singapore, Thailand and Japan. An MOC ruling requires importers to apply anti-dumping duties at rates ranging ... ( read original story ...)
Japan welcomes WTO ruling on South Korea over Fukushima seafood import ban
Mainland China, Taiwan, Macau, Singapore and Russia all have partial import bans on fishery products from Japan, according to the fisheries agency. The European Union, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hong Kong and some other places require certificates of pre ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Post Limited’s Latest Earnings: An Overview Of The Logistics Business
In early February Singapore Post Limited (SGX: S08) released its third quarter earnings update for its fiscal year ending 31 March 2018 (FY17/18). The reporting quarter stretches from 1 October 2017 to 31 December 2017. As a quick introduction ... ( read original story ...)