Category: BUSINESS

But one year on from its inception, about 74 per cent of Singapore companies polled in a recent Singapore Business Federation (SBF) survey said they do not think the AEC has benefited them. Associate Professor Simon Tay, chairman of the Singapore Institute ... ( read original story ...)

Transformation of the economy was the keystone of Budget 2016. But many local businesses are not taking steps to change, the latest National Business Survey released by the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) yesterday showed. About six in 10 of small- and ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: The Singapore dollar may have recovered some lost ground after hitting multi-year lows against the greenback last week, but this momentum is unlikely to be sustainable when the new year comes around, analysts told Channel NewsAsia. Alongside ... ( read original story ...)

Grace Clapham is one of the leading female entrepreneurs from Singapore who is smashing the glass ceiling with all her achievements. It’s important to be fearless. That is how we create progress within business. Southeast Asia has been more traditional ... ( read original story ...)

... climate in Singapore has deteriorated this year, according to companies polled in a new survey, with almost half expecting the coming year to be even worse. This was one of the findings of the latest annual National Business Survey conducted by the ... ( read original story ...)

... of local businesses felt that Singapore's economic climate has declined in 2016 and nearly half of the companies polled expect the situation to worsen in 2017, according to latest findings from the National Business Survey released on Wednesday (Dec 28). ( read original story ...)

The proposed changes to improve business transparency include: (a) require companies (except listed companies and Singapore financial institutions) and LLPs incorporated/ registered in Singapore to maintain registers of beneficial owners (referred to as ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Bus operators at Golden Mile Complex, who mainly serve the Singapore-Malaysia route, appear to not be badly affected by the Christmas Eve (Dec 24) bus crash in Muar that claimed the lives of 14 people. Staff of the various operators said on ... ( read original story ...)

The Edge Singapore, a business and investment weekly, published an article titled ‘Is Singapore sailing down the way of Venice?‘, which compared the two cities and wondered if Singapore is destined towards obscurity. The article pointed out that ... ( read original story ...)

PETALING JAYA: An extensive study by the National University of Singapore’s Business School between 2010 and 2012 showed a significant difference in the spending habits of Singaporeans, between those who lived closer to the Malaysian border and those ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore has dropped out of the top 10 spots in IMD Business Schools World Talent Report. Singapore’s economic rival Hong Kong on the other hand leapt 2 spots to be among the top 10. Hong Kong was in the 12th spot in the 2015 ranking of the renowned ... ( read original story ...)

Our research at the National University of Singapore Business School involved several data sets. First, we studied credit card transactions from 2010 to 2012 of 24,000 individuals living close to the Singapore-Malaysia border and compared them to the ... ( read original story ...)

The aim of SF100SG is to strengthen the ties between Singapore and Finland in business, investments, education, travel and culture. Ambassador Paula Parviainen presented the key themes around which the SF100SG programme has been designed: healthcare and ... ( read original story ...)

Read full story here. More From Singapore Business Review Singapore yards' contract boom cycle is over: analyst Why a severe dip in home prices is unlikely Sabana REIT to acquire Eunos Avenue property for $20m ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Singapore has reiterated its call for the release of nine armoured military vehicles that have been held by Hong Kong customs for a month. On Friday night the Lion City’s Ministry of Defence issued its sixth statement on the issue, saying the ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Prime residential rents in Singapore fell by 3.3 percent during the third quarter of 2016, while prime rental performance across the 17 global cities tracked by Knight Frank registered zero percent growth in the year to September. “Despite ... ( read original story ...)