State-backed assets from Singapore have ended up on an ESG blacklist at Van Lanschot Kempen NV, after Asia’s wealthiest country per capita failed an updated ESG test used by the wealth manager to screen for environmental risks.
Why Singapore is the only place in the world selling lab-grown meat
You would never guess that the piece of meat in front of me did not come from a farm. It was made in a laboratory on an industrial estate just a few miles down the road. I'm in Huber's Butchery and ...
Singapore sets up sustainable finance association to scale up green financing | Video
Singapore is setting up a sustainable finance association to advance green and transition financing. The new association will focus on how to help bankroll the region's green transition, such as from ...
Close to Singapore, Vice President Asks Batam to Develop Commodities for Export
Batam: Vice President Ma'ruf Amin encouraged the Batam City Government to develop various commodities that could be exported. Ma'ruf assesses that Batam has a strategic location for Singapore. "(Batam ...
McDonald’s Singapore promotes ‘Hash Brown Oreo McFlurry sandwich hack’
McDonald’s Singapore is jumping on the latest viral food trend by giving away free food for customers to make “Hash Brown Oreo McFlurry sandwiches.” “Hack yeah!” the fast food chain wrote above a picture of Oreo ice cream stuffed between two pieces of hash browns.
Singapore heats up data centers with operating standards for tropical climates
These new standards can potentially yield energy savings of between 2% and 5% for every 1 degree Celsius increase in such environments. Here's what to know.
Singapore to invest billions in new submarine cable facilities
Announced by Singapore's Minister for Communications and Information Josephine Teo, the new Digital Connectivity Blueprint is an ambitions project that will reshape the country's digital connectivity ...
Attracting blended finance and transition finance guidance key focuses at Ecosperity Week
Compared to the jam-packed conferences of years past, this year’s edition — which wrapped on June 8 — was a quieter affair.
9 in 10 Singaporeans believe cashless payment to be most eco-friendly: Visa
Nearly nine in 10 Singapore consumers consider cashless payment methods such as cards, mobile wallets and mobile banking to be the most eco-friendly, according to a study conducted by payments network ...
Prime Skyline Limited filed an IPO for 2.5M shares at $6 per share
Singapore's Prime Skyline Limited (PSE) has filed to raise $15M by offering 2.5M ordinary shares of common stock at $6 per share. The offering comprises 1,832,500 shares by the company, and 667,500 ...
Pasture Holdings’ all-placement IPO fully subscribed
Medical supplies and devices company Pasture Holdings’ all-placement initial public offering (IPO) has been fully subscribed. On June 8, the company said that all 20 million of its placement shares ...
StanChart Embarks on Layoffs Across Singapore, London and Hong Kong Hubs
Standard Chartered has begun the process of cutting more than 100 jobs across its Singapore, London and Hong Kong offices.
Standard Chartered to cut jobs in Singapore, Hong Kong and London: Report
Standard Chartered is starting to lay off employees across Singapore, London and Hong Kong as part of an existing plan to cut costs by more than US$1 billion through 2024, Bloomberg News reported on ...
Singapore middle distillates stocks above 8 mln barrels on weaker net exports; Qatari gasoil emerges
SINGAPORE, June 8 (Reuters) - Middle distillates stock levels at key trading hub Singapore rose to above 8 million barrels on lower overall net export volumes, with gasoil imports emerging from Qatar, ...
Hanna has a point, but Singapore is still an outlier
In her latest Sunday column published in the Jamaica Observer titled 'A tale of two Jamaica's', Member of Parliament (MP) Lisa Hanna provided a balanced position on the vexing issue of the ...
Were Singapore’s ‘kampung spirit’ life in the 80s and early 90s really better than today?
Always hearing older folks saying that life was much ‘simpler’ then and they miss the kampung spirit. I wasn’t born then to experience it... Things were cheaper but after a little research, apparently ...