Category: BUSINESS

SINGAPORE: Singapore shares edged higher and Malaysia stocks climbed to almost two-year highs on Friday, following an overnight rally on Wall Street amid renewed optimism over U.S. tax reforms. U.S. stocks rallied overnight after Treasury Secretary Steven ... ( read original story ...)

We had specifically routed through Singapore from Beijing so that we could all experience Singapore Suites together. It made the routing to Bali a bit longer, but it was WELLLLLLLL worth it. After an incredible flight we spent a night at the Crown Plaza ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: US tech giant Google will work with global training provider AVADO, SPRING Singapore and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) to launch a digital leadership and marketing programme aimed at fostering the next generation of digital ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore is routinely ranked among the top when it comes to global competitiveness, mainly because of its low company tax rates, good infrastructure and easy procedures to open a business, rather than cost effectiveness. It was placed fourth out of 61 cou ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE -- When it comes to attracting and keeping the world's best business talent, Singapore is second only to Switzerland, according to the Global Talent Competitiveness Index 2017 report released by the French business school INSEAD. For the annual ... ( read original story ...)

Huone’s Singapore team is similarly optimistic. Ms Tan said: “Not every business has the budget of Google or Facebook that can build multimillion-dollar premises. Instead of committing big spaces and heavy renovation costs to build creative meeting ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's on-year export growth beat expectations in March, thanks to a surge in petrochemical and pharmaceutical shipments, a sign the city-state's trade recovery is widening to non-electronic sectors. Non-oil domestic exports ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE has a vision: That is all factories housed in the ... assistant managing director Lim Kok Kiang told The Business Times in an exclusive interview. For one thing, the manufacturing sector here is at an inflexion point, having reached a critical ... ( read original story ...)

In a recent report Mr Hari wrote for The Business Times, he mentioned that a KPMG report commissioned by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in August last year noted that payment preferences still remain largely paper-based. Consumers use cash for ... ( read original story ...)

private condominium or landed property in Singapore. This is so we can prudently use the money we have for financial planning purposes - investing, buying another property, even starting a business or promising to pay for your children's education. ( read original story ...)

it promised much to raise the quality of scientific research here that would lead to new business opportunities. The Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (Smart) was trumpeted as MIT's first research centre outside the United States ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE — In a major move towards cementing business ties between Singapore and Shanghai, nine memoranda of understandings (MOUs) were signed yesterday between financial institutions and corporates from the two cities. The alliances, aimed at ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG Hong Kong and Singapore are set to launch new disclosure rules for wealth managers on what they are paid by funds to sell their products, moves aimed at revealing conflicts of interest but which could disrupt a business that generates billions of ... ( read original story ...)

As the global economy perked up from late last year, Singapore's exports and manufacturing have bounced from depressed levels, helping lift inflation in line with official forecasts. The improving prospects saw 18 of 19 analysts in a Reuters survey ... ( read original story ...)

The Business Times and OCBC Bank are joint organisers of the award which first started in 1998. Into its 10th year, other partners are MasterCard, Acorn Marketing and Research Consultants, Insead, Spring Singapore, Singtel, Maxus and RSM, which is also the ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: SINGAPORE – A sizeable haul of duty-unpaid cigarettes was seized from a Singapore-registered car at Woodlands Checkpoint on Friday (April 7), the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said in a press release. The car was stopped by ICA ... ( read original story ...)