The North Korean envoy is expected to travel to the US imminently for senior-level talks to reciprocate recent visits by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, South Korean news agency Yonhap ... Joe Hagin arrived in Singapore on Monday, and is leading ... ( read original story ...)
Top aide to North Korean leader lands in Singapore as summit preparations continue: NHK
TOKYO (Reuters) - A top aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Singapore on Monday night, Japanese public broadcaster NHK said Tuesday, the latest indication that the on-again-off-again summit with U.S. President Donald Trump is going ahead. ( read original story ...)
Top aide to North Korean leader lands in Singapore as summit preparations advance: NHK
TOKYO (Reuters) - A top aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Singapore on Monday night, Japanese public broadcaster NHK said Tuesday, the latest indication that the on-again-off-again summit with U.S. President Donald Trump is going ahead. ( read original story ...)
Singapore Business Reviews awards Bolloré Logistics and L’Oréal Singapore
In partnership, Bolloré Logistics and L’Oréal Singapore, won the recent award for their co-designed innovative trucking solution deployed in Asia-Pacific. Bolloré Logistics, a brand of Bolloré Transport & Logistics, a global leader in supply chain ... ( read original story ...)
Malaysia PM to drop high-speed rail project with Singapore: FT
"We need to do away with some of the unnecessary projects, for example the high-speed rail, which is going to cost us RM110bn ($28bn) and will not earn us a single cent. That will be dropped," Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad told the Financial Times. ( read original story ...)
Singapore Shares: Support Expected At 3,500 Points
The Singapore stock market headed south again on Friday, one session after it had halted the two-day slide in which it had fallen more than 50 points or 1.5 percent. The Straits Times Index now rests just beneath the 3,515-point plateau and it may tick ... ( read original story ...)
U.S. teams in North Korea, Singapore try to salvage summit
CBS News foreign correspondent Ben Tracy and Gordon Chang, author of "Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the world," explain the latest developments to CBSN.. A U.S.-North Korea summit in Singapore next months remains very much in play, and South Korean... ( read original story ...)
DBS to build Carousell’s mobile wallet CarouPay
This followed the bank's participation in Carousell's US$85m funding round. DBS will be developing and operating the integrated payment system of Singapore e-commerce firm Carousell called CarouPay, which will be launched in June, a Carousell spokesperson ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore, India exchanges have abandoned trade link talks: Sources
MUMBAI (BLOOMBERG) – The Singapore Exchange (SGX) and National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) have abandoned talks on a cross-border trading link, according to people familiar with the matter, amid a bitter court battle that’s soured an 18-year partnership. ( read original story ...)
21 Singapore Supermarket Industry Statistics, Trends & Analysis
That allows the Singapore supermarket industry to take advantage of what is available on the import market. There are no excise taxes or imports on food or beverages because of the unique structure of Singapore. There is virtually no domestic agricultural ... ( read original story ...)
Malaysia says it will axe high-speed railway to Singapore
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — New Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Monday that a planned high-speed railway that would cut travel time between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore to just 90 minutes will be axed because it isn't beneficial. Mahathir said ... ( read original story ...)
Malaysia axes project to build high-speed rail link with Singapore
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia is cancelling a project to build a high-speed rail link between its capital, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore, and will talk with its southern neighbor about any compensation Malaysia has to pay, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad ... ( read original story ...)
Ascend Money Selects Red Hat Solutions to Accelerate Electronic Payment Systems Across Southeast Asia
SINGAPORE, May 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Ascend Money, one of ASEAN's leading fintech companies, has selected Red Hat technologies to help enable and ... ( read original story ...)
Tencent-backed Kwai App ranked Most Popular social short video app
SINGAPORE, May 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Kwai, a social video app based in Beijing ranked first as the most downloaded video social sharing app in South Korea, Vietnam, Philippines, Russia, Thailand, Indonesia and Turkey. The app allows users to capture ... ( read original story ...)
Malaysia-Singapore high-speed rail project hits the buffers: FT
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia is dropping a plan for a high-speed rail link between its capital, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore, and will talk with its southern neighbor about the agreement to build it, Malaysia’s prime minister said in an interview ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore, India Exchanges Are Said to Abandon Trade Link Talks
(Bloomberg) -- Singapore Exchange Ltd. and National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. have abandoned talks on a cross-border trading link, according to people familiar with the matter, amid a bitter court battle that’s soured an 18-year partnership. ( read original story ...)