Category: BUSINESS

Channel checks by Singapore Business Review reveal that online ordering of groceries accounts for just under 2% of the retail pie in the city-state, and that Amazon only has a measly share of that. In addition to reports of delivery delays marring its Asia ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Local shares bounced back yesterday after a dip on Thursday, due to Wall Street’s solid overnight showing and encouraging domestic growth data. The key Straits Times Index (STI) advanced 32.69 points, or 0.94 per cent, to finish at 3,501.30 ... ( read original story ...)

adding that Uber would continue to operate in Singapore until May 7 to smoothen the transition. Uber sold its Southeast Asian business to bigger local rival Grab, marking the U.S. company’s second retreat from an Asian market. Uber gets a 27.5 percent ... ( read original story ...)

Rising US-China trade tensions are raising alarm bells in export-reliant Singapore, with an index measuring economic uncertainty climbing to a five-month high in March. The Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) Index for Singapore rose to 155 last month from ... ( read original story ...)

an economist at United Overseas Bank Ltd. in Singapore. “They were still appreciative of the possible risks,” especially on trade and “because of that, in October I think they should still maintain” the stance, he said. While growth in the export ... ( read original story ...)

In spite of the two islands’ decades of warm diplomatic relations, Singapore comprised only 1.1 per cent of Sri Lanka’s exports and 5.3 per cent of imports in 2016. The agreement underlines Singapore’s serious search for trade and investment partners ... ( read original story ...)

CHONGQING - It now takes about a week to transport goods between Singapore and Chongqing but the two cities hope that this can be reduced to as little as five days, easing the import and export of fresh produce for instance. To realise such time savings ... ( read original story ...)

As the startup ecosystem increasingly bears the weight of play-it-safe startups taking advantage of the lion city’s prime business conditions, Singapore needs to weed out underperforming businesses and direct its more-than-abundant capital to risk-taking ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: More than 25 people were caught smoking contraband cigarettes in an enforcement operation by the Singapore Customs last Friday (April 6). In a Facebook post on Monday, Singapore Customs said that plainclothes officers were out in the Central ... ( read original story ...)

Became second company last year to obtain LNG import license LNG brought from Qatar, world’s largest exporter of the gas Singapore’s state-owned natural gas importer brought in its first cargo of a super-chilled form of the fuel for domestic use. ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Rising US-China trade tensions are raising alarm bells in export-reliant Singapore, with an index measuring economic uncertainty climbing to a five-month high in March. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index for Singapore increased to 155 last ... ( read original story ...)

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SINGAPORE: Singapore’s Pavilion Gas, a unit of Pavilion Energy, imported its first liquefied natural gas(LNG) cargo for domestic use to power the city-state’s industrial sector as it looks to grow its business in the country and in Asia. The LNG ... ( read original story ...)

The Norwegian Business Association in Singapore presents the seventh edition of the Norway-Asia Business Summit (NABS), taking place 16-18 April in Singapore. The summit will explore how to navigate the geo-political landscape in Asia; discuss how to ... ( read original story ...)

How airplane food is made can depend on the airline. For Singapore Airlines, they contract an airline catering firm called Gate Gourmet in Switzerland to produce more than 50,000 meals a day. Some of the most fascinating details and secrets from inside ... ( read original story ...)

The Singapore Police Force has issued a warning against the importing of politics from other countries into the Republic, after learning of calls encouraging overseas Malaysians to support political activities in the lead-up to their country's upcoming ... ( read original story ...)