Category: BUSINESS

PETALING JAYA: The East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) can threaten Singapore’s shipping business, but only if ports on the western and eastern sides of Peninsular Malaysia operate at world class efficiency, says an official of the Institute for Democracy and ... ( read original story ...)

The international banks accused of rigging the Singapore intra-bank interest rate including ANZ ... represent a comparatively small portion of their global business operations," the banks add. However, lawyers for Frontpoint and Sonterra said the court ... ( read original story ...)

Approved Name of the Company Brief Description of Business Activities & Copy of Company’s Memorandum and Articles of Association Particulars of Directors and Shareholders Registered Address Company Secretary Particulars Foreigners to Singapore must also ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: More than 126,000 Singaporeans used their SkillsFuture ... and understand what's happening in their business, (and ensure) that they're being proactive in understanding how that's going to impact their role." There was also an overall increase ... ( read original story ...)

“We’re trying to get a mixed meeting of the PSBC (Philippines-Singapore Business Council) here. They want to bring the members to Davao to meet with the President,” Kok said. Dominguez said that a possible date for such a dialogue could be in Februar ( read original story ...)

a former prosecutor and an enforcement lawyer at K&L Gates in Singapore. “Certainly that would appear to be the case with BSI.” As business rolled in from 1MDB and Low, BSI became the custodian bank of $2.3 billion of investments from the Malaysian ... ( read original story ...)

Where to go: Story Of Us, Tel: 6299-3631 Home & Decor, Singapore's #1 interior decor magazine is now available in both print and digital formats. Log on to www.homeanddecor.com.sg to subscribe! AsiaOne is looking to feature our readers' renovations and ... ( read original story ...)

Air New Zealand is offering one-way flights to Singapore for $469 per person, Shanghai for $499, San Francisco for $599 and Buenos Aires for $649 as part of a New Year sale. House of Travel marketing director Ken Freer said the fares were generally lower ... ( read original story ...)

Watch the video with Andrew Stotz or read a summary of the country profile on Singapore. Overall, growth in Singapore has remained slow. Unlike most of its peers in Asia, who are often led by private consumption, the Singapore economy is driven by net ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Environmental NGO Mother Nature has hired a Singaporean ... or in relation to the government importing Cambodian sand which is tainted by issues of corruption, smuggling, tax-evasion, etc.,” Mother Nature founder Alex Gonzalez-Davidson said ... ( read original story ...)

The CFE has consulted with more than 1,000 educators, business leaders and academics, The Straits Times reported. It seeks to identify growth industries and markets as well as ways to make Singapore-based companies more competitive. Job creation ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s Customs and Excise Department has moved to quash speculation that nine military vehicles from Singapore detained in the city since November have been returned. The department made the rebuttal after Apple Daily said in a report ... ( read original story ...)

“The prospects of a more protectionist trade policy poses headwinds to Singapore’s economy who is still wedded to the old export-led growth model,” Ng said in a note. There have been concerns among Asia’s export-driven economies about rising ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: The prospects for South-East Asia’s exports – which have powered growth for decades – are looking bleak. There are some winners but Malaysia is among the losers. With global growth under pressure and the US threatening to turn more ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: It is heartening that India and Singapore have amended a double-tax avoidance agreement that will allow the Indian tax authorities to impose capital gains tax on investments routed through the island nation. This third in the line agreement ... ( read original story ...)

As a result Hong Kong and Singapore are rising challengers to London, according to the Bank of England’s quarterly bulletin, which studied data from the Bank of International Settlements. London hosted 37pc of global foreign exchange trading, down from ... ( read original story ...)