Category: NEWS

JOHOR BARU - The family members of a Malaysian who was killed in a road accident in Singapore initially did not believe the tra­gic news. Instead, they thought it was a scam to get money from them. However, their lives came crashing down when it was ... ( read original story ...)

Canada’s two biggest pension funds have agreed to partner with LOGOS, a real estate logistics operator, to invest in warehouses in Singapore and Indonesia, betting on demand from the rise of e-commerce and a burgeoning middle class in southeast Asia. ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) issued a 10-year prohibition order on Monday against Tim Leissner, a former director of Goldman Sachs (Singapore) Pte, who it said had made false statements on behalf of his bank without its knowledge or ... ( read original story ...)

Whether you look at prices or policy, the property markets in Singapore and Hong Kong are marching resolutely in opposite directions. Singapore has eased some rules in its property market, after more than three years of home price declines. Hong Kong in ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore's police took issue on Sunday with a Reuters report on a public protest over water price increases, saying it presented a "false and misleading" picture of the use of Speakers' Corner, a designated place for citizens to speak publicly on issues ... ( read original story ...)

A shortage of talent is preventing Singapore’s maritime industry from tapping the benefits of big data analytics to improve vessel performance and lower business costs, a new survey has found. Conducted ahead of Sea Asia 2017, a regional maritime ... ( read original story ...)

JOHOR BARU: The family members of a Malaysian who was killed in a road accident in Singapore initially did not believe the tra­gic news. Instead, they thought it was a scam to get money from them. However, their lives came crashing down when it was ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore morning news roundup by AEC News Today is your one stop source for Singapore news on matters of governance and policies affecting Asean business communities. Singapore, Hong Kong Property Marching in Opposite Directions Whether you look at prices ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: The Football Association of Singapore (FAS) said on Sunday (Mar 12) that it will form two consultative clusters to bring in both private and public football academies in Singapore as part of the larger football eco-system. The intention is to ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore is set to host the first Asian edition of Money20/20, a global payments event. The conference will be held in March next year at the Marina Bay Sands, the organisers announced this week. Money 20/20 dubs itself as the world's largest payments ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE announced on Friday targeted tweaks to property market measures and a new stamp duty - moves that observers said are in response to recent developments in the property market and the wider economy. The release by government agencies said that ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE — More than 100 people gathered in Singapore's Speakers' Corner on Saturday for a rare protest against a government plan to hike water prices that has stirred discontent over sluggish economic growth and rising unemployment in the city-state. ( read original story ...)

CHICAGO -- A teenage blogger awaiting a Chicago immigration judge's ruling on his asylum request to stay in the United States said Friday that he's afraid of returning home to Singapore, where he was jailed after posting scathing blog posts about the ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore is one of the world’s best cities but we often dismiss it. Even in the region Singapore doesn’t have the allure of Hong Kong, the excitement of Bangkok or the beaches of Bali. It doesn’t have the mystery of Myanmar, the temples of Cambodia ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: The current outbreak of bird flu in Kelantan does not have any impact on Singapore's poultry and egg supply as Singapore does not allow the products to be imported from Kelantan, said the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) on ... ( read original story ...)

Over 50 Singapore-based corporate lawyers have proven to be among the most influential and innovative in the region, according to an inaugural list by Legal 500. The country's lawyers made up 52 of the top 120 in-house counsel named in the GC Powerlist ... ( read original story ...)