The Singaporean government has rejected TPG Telecom's bid to be one of the nation's two 5G wholesale providers, in a blow to the Australian telco's push to be the nation's third mobile network ... ( read original story ...)
Is Now The Time To Look At Buying Boustead Singapore Limited (SGX:F9D)?
I find that Boustead Singapore’s ratio of 10.02x is trading slightly below its industry peers’ ratio of 11.64x, which means if you buy Boustead Singapore today, you’d be paying a decent price for it. ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s DBS bank posts 29% fall in first-quarter net profit
DBS, Southeast Asia's largest bank, said it set aside 1.09 billion Singapore dollars ($772.5 million) to cover potential losses from the coronavirus pandemic. ( read original story ...)
Singapore Bourse May Add To Its Winnings On Thursday
The Singapore stock market has moved higher in three straight trading days, rising more than 55 points or 2.2 percent in that span. The Straits Times Index now rests just beneath the 2,575-point ... ( read original story ...)
‘Better call Singapore!’, Kremlin suggests, as scientists in Asian city-state predict exact day of Covid-19 ending in Russia
With no end in sight for Russia’s coronavirus crisis, Singaporean academics have finally put a date on it: August 19. The Kremlin remains unconvinced, however, believing it’s too early to make such a ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore unveils winning 5G licensees, TPG loses out on nationwide bid
Singtel and joint bidders StarHub Mobile and M1 have secured licences to deploy nationwide 5G networks, while TPG Telecom has failed in its bid to do so and, instead, will be able to access these ... ( read original story ...)
What Singapore Can Tell the World About Personal Liberty
In a state of emergency, more than a few of us will find ourselves cutting deals with god, the devil, or the government alike. ( read original story ...)
Here’s what life looks like right now in Singapore, where an outbreak in migrant worker dormitories has led to new lockdown measures
Singapore extended "circuit breaker" measures through June 1 and put a stop to more services, such as grass-cutting. ( read original story ...)
U.S. Cases Top 1 Million; Tokyo Seeks Extension: Virus Update
Coronavirus cases in the U.S. passed the 1 million mark and deaths topped 58,000, double the toll in Italy. France plans to begin reopening shops on May 11, while Spain is preparing for a “new normal” ... ( read original story ...)
In Singapore, Spy Robots Make Social Distancing Reinforcement Like Something Out of a Movie
R3 roams public spaces and reminds citizens that to prevent the spread of COVID-19, "gathering in public parks are not allowed." ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Was a Coronavirus Success Story—Until an Outbreak Showed How Vulnerable Workers Can Fall Through the Cracks
Asadul Alam Asif has watched nervously as Singapore reported more and more COVID-19 cases in migrant workers’ dormitories like the one where he lives. The 28-year-old Bangladeshi technician counted ... ( read original story ...)
New services in Singapore to tap spike in demand for online delivery
Google Pay Singapore introduces feature to enable the discovery of food pickup and delivery options, while taxi operator ComfortDelgro launches food delivery service that doesn't charge additional ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Producer Prices Decline In March
Singapore's producer prices declined at a faster rate in March, data from the Department of Statistics showed on Wednesday. The ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Employment Plunges Most Since SARS Outbreak in 2003
Employment in Singapore began the year with its sharpest quarterly contraction since the SARS outbreak in 2003 as the city-state contends with the highest number of coronavirus infections in Southeast ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s first-quarter jobless rate highest in a decade, foreign employment drops
Singapore's unemployment rate edged up in the first quarter to its highest in more than a decade, as the government warned that labour market conditions were likely to further worsen due to the ... ( read original story ...)
Australian High Commissioner to Singapore says more digital agreements are in the works
Australian High Commissioner to Singapore Bruce Gosper has hinted that Australia is in talks with other countries in the region about inking additional bilateral digital economy agreements after it ... ( read original story ...)