China has been Malaysia’s largest trading partner since 2009, displacing Singapore, with two-way trade last year valued at US$83.4 billion. China is Malaysia’s biggest export market. Malaysia, like Singapore, has strong historical links to China. ( read original story ...)
Arclight Launches China Co-Production Initiative
Arclight and its affiliate companies have co-financed or sold several of the biggest Chinese film exports of recent years. The company previously handled Kimble Rendall’s Chinese-Australian-Singapore co-venture “Bait 3D,” and is now in post-productio ... ( read original story ...)
The Gluten in Wheat’s Rise
The most exciting corner of the world's commodity markets over the past few months hasn't been in London, New York, Chicago, Singapore or Shanghai ... according to U.S. Wheat Associates, an export-promotion group. That's a problem for bakers. ( read original story ...)
Positive Data Raises Asia, Europe Stocks
Equity indexes from Shanghai to Seoul chalked up gains, with confidence fuelled by positive Chinese manufacturing data and figures showing South Korean exports surged 20% in ... just 10 days after being hired. Singapore shares rose, as a recovery in ... ( read original story ...)
India Refiners Outshine Asia Peers With New Output, Rising Local Demand
SINGAPORE/NEW DELHI, Aug 1 (Reuters ... in China and Vietnam that could keep most of Asia well-supplied and weigh on refining margins for export-oriented refiners in South Korea and Thailand. India, though, where refiners have already ramped up capacity ... ( read original story ...)
Mobile payments growth gap barely there between millennials and older generations
Visa’s effort to turn Singapore into a cashless society has centered heavily around promoting mobile payments growth. The credit card giant recently released its Consumer Payment Attitudes Survey 2016, revealing some unexpected data. It came as little ... ( read original story ...)
Saudi Aramco IPO Pits London Against New York
Singapore is the biggest oil trading center in Asia ... The Toronto Stock Exchange is also among the smaller contenders for the IPO, but the Canadian bourse has highlighted the large number of commodities companies listed there. Energy and materials ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore to look into regulating ICOs following SEC’s example
SINGAPORE has announced it will begin looking into regulating ... and thus do not have to undergo the rigorous disclosure process companies who launch IPOs have to fulfil. As a result, ICOs have become increasingly popular, particularly among investors ... ( read original story ...)
Razer to target $5-billion valuation in IPO, sources say
Razer’s IPO would be one of the largest tech debuts in the Asian financial centre in years. The company, co-founded in 2005 by Singapore-born Mr. Tan, considered a U.S. IPO as far back as 2014, people with knowledge of the matter said at the time. ( read original story ...)
Novena Global targets Taiwan for $150m IPO
Singapore-based Novena Global Lifecare Group is gunning for a listing on the Taiwan Stock Exchange to raise $150m for regional expansion. Novena, an integrated medical healthcare and aesthetic group, plans to use the proceeds from the Taiwan listing for ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Morning News For August 1
SOME 2,500 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore will be trained by Google to tap the global market by 2019, the tech giant announced on Monday during the official launch of the expansion of its Go Global initiative. Consumers have reported ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore, Hong Kong visitors can use passport scanners in Bangkok airports soon: Report
BANGKOK: Visitors from Singapore and Hong Kong will be able to use automatic passport scanners in Bangkok airports soon, with immigration processing time reduced to 20 to 30 seconds, according to Thai news outlet The Nation. The system, which is ... ( read original story ...)
Mayer Brown launches trade finance group in SG with Standard Chartered duo
Mayer Brown JSM has recruited Angelia Chia and Ben Sandstad from Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore, and the new partners are expected to co-lead a pan-Asia team focusing on trade finance, structured finance and governance and advisory services. ( read original story ...)
Mayer Brown brings in Standard Chartered Bank duo to strengthen trade finance and structured finance offerings in Asia
Returning to private practice after leading global legal teams at Standard Chartered, Ms Chia and Mr Sandstad bring ... and she is qualified in Singapore. Mr Sandstad said of the move: 'The firm, with its strength in Asia, Europe, North America and South ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore unemployment rate, retrenchments ease in Q2
SINGAPORE: The joblessness amongst Singapore residents and citizens has eased in the past quarter if the latest figures from the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) are anything to go by. According to the Labour Market Advance Release for the second quarter of the ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s central bank says may regulate offer or issue of digital tokens
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's central bank said on Tuesday it will regulate issuance by companies of digital tokens called "initial coin offerings" if it judges them to be securities under the city-state's law. Globally, new technology companies have ... ( read original story ...)