The Singapore-born professional quit her job in the finance industry in 2015, and went on a solo, two-year-long trip around the world. She funded it all on her own. In fact, Chua had saved money for a ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Happy to Be `Goldilocks’ for Energy Usage Experiments
As the world tries to curb carbon emissions, Singapore could be a testing ground for new ideas on how to reduce energy use through data and urban design, according to Chan Chun Sing, its trade and ind... ( read original story ...)
Where Can You Afford to Purchase an HDB Flat in Singapore?
In order to answer the question of how much one would need to afford a home in each neighborhood Singapore, we first estimated the home loan size and monthly payment based on median HDB resale prices. ... ( read original story ...)
Trade-Reliant Singapore Warns of Big Risks If Tariff Wars Go On
Export-dependent Singapore has a strong warning for the rest of the world: The damage from a prolonged trade war will be severe. While Southeast Asia has found some benefits from the deepening trade h... ( read original story ...)
Advocacy Group Raises Questions About Cambodia’s Gold Imports
It is also $12 billion more than the value of all of Cambodia's other imports from Singapore during the same period, said the monitor group based on publicly available records from the Ministry of Com... ( read original story ...)
Singapore to charge British suspect 13 years after bogus terror threat
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A British man faces up to a year in jail in Singapore for an email he is accused of sending to the government of the wealthy city-state in 2005, delivering a false warning of a t... ( read original story ...)
South American exports help shipping industry offset trade war fallout
SINGAPORE -- Exports from South America are helping the shipping industry to fend off the effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the chief of shipping information provider Baltic Exchange said in an ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore consumers harbour distrust of e-payment: study
Just half of Singapore consumers believe e-wallets and payment apps are adequately secure and 65 percent say likewise for mobile banking apps, which are the lowest amongst six Asian markets. In compar... ( read original story ...)
Singapore: Elderly woman fined $7,000 for smuggling 490 duck eggs from Vietnam
A 63-year-old woman was caught red-handed while importing 490 duck eggs illegally that contained developing embryos into Singapore. As a penalty for the offence, on Wednesday, October 3 she was fined ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Inc. Flexes Its M&A Muscle With Major Overseas Push
injection to help Bayer AG finance its planned takeover of U.S. competitor Monsanto Co. GIC was also involved in Blackstone Group LP’s acquisition of a majority stake in Thomson Reuters Corp.’s financ... ( read original story ...)
Losing Streak Expected To Continue For Singapore Shares
The Singapore stock market has finished lower in consecutive trading days, sliding almost 20 points or 0.6 percent along the way. The Straits Times Index now rests just above the 3,240-point plateau a... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Companies Are on a Global Acquisition Spree
Singapore Inc. is stirring, with companies from real estate to engineering becoming bolder in their hunt for acquisitions abroad. Companies in the city-state announced around $91 billion of overseas d... ( read original story ...)
Woman fined $7,000 for smuggling 490 balut eggs into Singapore
The import of food, including meat and eggs, and their products, are regulated for animal health and food safety reasons. Meat and eggs, and their products, can only be imported from accredited source... ( read original story ...)
OCBC rolls out real-time account opening for SMEs
Singapore's OCBC Bank is extending its instant account opening service to small traders, mining the Government's national data repository MyInfo to offer on-the-spot account numbers and payment approv... ( read original story ...)
Singapore property prices rise despite additional government curbs
Singapore private home prices are still inching higher – albeit at the slowest pace in five quarters – even after the government imposed additional property curbs to avoid the risk of a sharp correcti... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Enjoys Strong Property Price Appreciation in 2018
According to Singapore-based Edmund Tie & Company, private residential property prices in Singapore continued to increase in Q2 2018, with the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) private residential p... ( read original story ...)