With 90% of the railroad project to be done in Malaysia, and most of the expenditure falling on the Malaysian government, was there really a need for Singapore to be involved? The Finance Twitter site said, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is moving for the kill as ... ( read original story ...)
Genting Singapore may be the major victim of the dropped HSR project
Will Genting Singapore be the major victim of the the Malaysian Government’s decision to scrap the high-speed rail project between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur? The Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr Mahathir Muhammad had yesterday in no uncertain terms ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Exchange Delays New India Futures After Lawsuit
Singapore Exchange Ltd. said it will delay the start of its new Indian stock futures contracts, as a court dispute in Mumbai heads to arbitration. SGX, which is battling with National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. over Indian derivatives in the city-state ... ( read original story ...)
Mitsubishi, MUFG Conduct Successful Pilot Payment With Major Thai Bank’s Blockchain
The Mitsubishi Group has successfully completed a pilot sending money from Thailand to Singapore using Thai Krungsri bank’s blockchain tech. The pilot, conducted in the Bank of Thailand’s (BOT) regulatory sandbox, was executed by Japan’s Mitsubishi ... ( read original story ...)
TH Group expects IPO in Singapore within next two years
TH Group may one-up Vietjet and VNG by becoming the first Vietnamese firm to have its stock listed on an overseas stock exchange. However, the IPO is planned for 2020, which leaves a lot of space for action for the other firms. The first phase of TH Group ... ( read original story ...)
8 countries show the impact of HSR on property prices
Now that Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has confirmed it would pull out of the KL-Singapore High-Speed Rail (HSR) project, it’s likely that homeowners and property buyers the Jurong region might be feeling what Spiderman felt at the end of ... ( read original story ...)
How are Singaporeans using their first property as an investment?
Unfortunately, property prices are in a slump at the time ... Wrong. The rate of inflation in Singapore is around three per cent per annum, and your investment has not kept up with that. And this is after you've put up with various inconveniences for ... ( read original story ...)
Frasers Property acquires owner of new logistics warehouse in Netherlands for €25m
SINGAPORE - Frasers Property on Friday (May 25) said it has acquired a new freehold logistics warehouse in the Netherlands. Its indirect subsidiary Frasers Property Investments (Europe) BV entered into a sale and purchase agreement with Acacia BV and ... ( read original story ...)
Why Donald Trump should come to Singapore anyway
It seemed that, like the property market here, what hothead Kim needed wasn’t dialogue but some serious cooling measures. In Singapore, particularly in Mandarin Gardens, we know how hard it is to pull off something successfully. There’s this thing ... ( read original story ...)
HSR demise could hit Jurong property prices, say reports
Singapore's Urban Redevelopment Authority masterplan was supposed ... All these developments would also have pushed up property prices in Jurong. The island republic's media is also quite gloomy with the latest Malaysian decision over the project. ( read original story ...)
Singapore to feel loss of HSR project
The absence of the rail connection will make the district less attractive to businesses as well as Malaysians who could have used the HSR to commute into Singapore to work, said International Property Advisor chief executive Ku Swee Yong said. "The ... ( read original story ...)
Of desi food, clubs and cricket in Singapore’s ‘Little India’
The current president of the club is an Indian, Sher Baljit Singh, who runs his own successful property business. The Singapore Cricket Club, which was established in 1852 Recently I was in Singapore for a day-long visit and came to know much about the ... ( read original story ...)
Kempinski Hotels to open first Singapore property
Kempinski Hotels is set to open its first hotel in Singapore. The Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore will be part of the Capitol Singapore mixed-use development in the downtown civic district. Singapore’s Perennial Real Estate Holdings will own and ... ( read original story ...)
Top North Korean officials travel to U.S., Singapore in summit preparations: media
SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - North Korea has dispatched top officials to the United States and Singapore, media reported on Tuesday, the latest indication that the on-again-off-again summit with U.S. President Donald Trump may go ahead. North Korea’s Kim Yong ... ( read original story ...)
North Korea summit: diplomatic flurry as Kim aides head to Singapore and US
A North Korea/US summit between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump has become more likely in recent days. Photograph: KOREA SUMMIT PRESS POOL / MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA A top aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrived in Singapore on Monday night, a Japanese ... ( read original story ...)
North Korean officials and U.S. meet in Singapore ahead of summit
Meanwhile, U.S. government officials, flew to Singapore from U.S. Yokota Air Base in Japan ... Bradford Betz is an editor for Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @bradford_betz. ( read original story ...)