Category: NEWS

(Bloomberg) -- Thanks to the meteoric gain in glove-maker stocks, Malaysia’s equity market capitalization is close to surpassing that of its richer neighbor Singapore.Malaysia’s market value has surge ... ( read original story ...)

Bidzina Ivanishvili, the biggest victim of a rogue trader at Credit Suisse Group AG, is suing one of the bank’s trusts in Singapore for at least $300 million, opening a fresh front in the long-running ... ( read original story ...)

Prime office real estate in Singapore's central business district (CBD) is highly susceptible to the risk of flooding as sea levels rise due to global warming, property consultants CBRE said in a ... ( read original story ...)

International companies are increasingly avoiding Hong Kong as a jurisdiction for settling disputes through arbitration, one of the clearest signs yet that China’s tightening grip on the financial hub ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore’s tourism sector is facing an existential crisis, its tourism board chief said on Wednesday, laying out plans to boost local demand after a collapse in visitor arrivals ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore is appealing to its travel-hungry residents to support a battered hospitality sector in a bid to limit job losses. ( read original story ...)

Singapore's Health Sciences Authority has approved clinical trials for a coronavirus vaccine candidate being developed by Arcturus Therapeutics and Duke-NUS Medical school. Arcturus, a San Diego, ... ( read original story ...)

South Korea's Naver said on its official blog page that it has moved user backup data that was stored in Hong Kong to Singapore. The data in Hong Kong was destroyed between July 6 ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore may be one of the world's wealthiest and "smartest" countries, but there's one thing it has never had, until now - an official opposition party. After a recent surprising election, change is ... ( read original story ...)

One of South Korea’s biggest technology companies is abandoning Hong Kong as a base for data storage because of privacy fears. Naver — a Google rival that dominates the South Korean market for web ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore is on track to record its worst dengue outbreak in history, with new weekly cases that have surpassed Covid-19 cases in the city-state. ( read original story ...)

Singapore's Temasek Holdings [TEM.UL] reported a 2.2% drop in annual net portfolio value (NPV) in a pandemic-hit year as it unveiled preliminary performance and said it was ready to invest in ... ( read original story ...)

Insider, a Singapore-based startup that develops software to help clients make marketing decisions, plans to launch in the United States after raising a $32 million Series C. The round was led by ... ( read original story ...)

Insider, a Singapore-based startup that develops software to help clients make marketing decisions, plans to launch in the United States after raising a $32 million Series C. The round was led by ... ( read original story ...)

Haze from the forest fires in Sumatra reaches record high, angering Singaporeans and tourists in the city-state ... ( read original story ...)

BP Plc has placed some personnel from its Singapore-based crude oil team on leave after they were mentioned in court documents filed in disputes between banks and other trading houses, said people ... ( read original story ...)