It requires strategic vision and a deft balancing act for any city to combine the roles of regional financial hub, leader in tech innovation and respected centre of higher education. But that is a feat Singapore continues to perform, while also showing the ... ( read original story ...)
The best business class on Perth-Singapore flights
Receive 100,000 Membership Rewards Bonus Points when you apply online by 2 October 2017. Receive a $400 Travel Credit each year to use towards any eligible flights, hotels, experiences or car hire. T&Cs. Minimum spend applies. Click here now. Perth enjoys ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s Ezion suspends shares, seeks restructuring
SINGAPORE - Singapore-based oil services company Ezion Holdings ... challenges to its cashflows that "will threaten the fundamental viability of the group's business if these challenges persist." It had total debt of about $1.4 billion as of end June. ( read original story ...)
Digital transformation drives Singapore businesses in 2017
Just last August, UOB launched BizSmart in Singapore, an integration of five cloud-based digital apps that helps SMEs cut costs by up to 60%. For instance, Xero provides direct account feeds to business owners to view operating account transactions ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore port authority hosts workshop
SINGAPORE: The OECS Region is Ideally Positioned for the Development of the Maritime Industry. The capacity of OECS port authorities to minimize trade transaction costs and spur economic growth has been strengthened following a five-day regional training ... ( read original story ...)
Home-grown pride: A look at 8 of Singapore’s oldest businesses
SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) - Even though Singapore has just celebrated its 52nd birthday, many of its home-grown companies have been in existence for much longer, with several being twice as old as its home country. Many of these firms have survived ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s exports growth slows to 2.7% in Q2
SINGAPORE: Non-oil domestic exports (NODX) grew 2.7 per cent year-on-year in the second quarter of the year, slowing from the 15.3 per cent expansion in the previous quarter, the International Enterprise (IE) Singapore said on Friday (Aug 11). The growth ... ( read original story ...)
Sustainable Singapore Movement: Less talk, more action needed
From left: NUS' Professor Leo Tan, World Green Building Council's Tai Lee Siang, Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources' Amy Khor, WWF Singapore's Elaine Tan, and Eco-Business' Jessica Cheam. Image: Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore economy expects 2.5% growth
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s economy is expected to be a shade rosier this year, with growth of about 2.5%, higher than last year’s 2% expansion, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Tuesday, in his National Day message. Still, he cautioned that urgent ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore is the best city in the world to work in a startup: Study
Zurich and Hamburg more welcoming than Singapore though the city state scores above average, outranking Tel Aviv and Seoul. So for those hunting for a perfect job match in a budding business that might hatch the next big thing on Earth, weighing the pros ... ( read original story ...)
First exports of perishable goods flown out of Canberra Airport to Singapore
In what could be a game-changer for producers throughout the national capital region, the first shipment of local perishable produce on Wednesday night flew direct to Singapore from Canberra Airport. It means producers can now get their wares to Singapore ... ( read original story ...)
Landmark air shipment of Canberra produce to Singapore tonight
John Russell and Rowan Brennan from Pialligo Estate are excited to support the direct export to Singapore. “We are delighted to share the best of Canberra with Singapore, and support the capital region’s growers to export to the world. Today we are ... ( read original story ...)
3 firms winning in Singapore’s sustainable business space
A prosperous, sheltered dot in the heart of tropical Southeast Asia, Singapore is typically spared the wrath of nature even as its neighbours are routinely afflicted by earthquakes, cyclones, floods and droughts. But the city-state is not invulnerable to ... ( read original story ...)
China seeks to strengthen ties with Malaysia as work starts on key belt and road rail link
“The edge that Singapore has – say its experience and financial system – is not replaceable by Malaysia’s new ports and railway.” Oh added that he believed the railway was being built so that China could export its railway technology as part of ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore, Nigeria sign double taxation avoidance agreement
She put the volume of trade between the two countries from 2011 to 2015 at N846 billion, where the absolute Balance of Trade was N222 billionn in favour of Nigeria while Balance of Trade net of petroleum export stood at N42 billion in favour of Singapore. ( read original story ...)
TABLE-Iraq top oil exporter to India for fourth straight month
NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE, Aug 8 (Reuters ... which fell 31.1 percent from June to 337,100 bpd in July. Venezuelan crude exports have declined as it struggles to secure the light oil needed to dilute its heavy crude grades for export. India is also diversifying ... ( read original story ...)