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(Bloomberg) -- Singapore sets targets to reduce cash and cheque usage as it prepares to allow companies to use its digital payments service in a move towards digital economy. Cheque will no longer be in use by 2025 while cash withdrawals from automatic ... ( read original story ...)

When it became clear that US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un would meet, the choice of the venue seemed self-evident. It had to be in the region, in a place that could be relied upon to have excellent infrastructure, and which ... ( read original story ...)

North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump at their summit in Singapore earlier this week. - Associated Press If the Singapore meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un had been a zero-sum game, then Trump definitely lost. ( read original story ...)

REITS are a solid asset class with has the potential to provide attractive dividend returns backed by prime real estate. With a huge diversity of REITS (38 in total) listed in SGX, we delve into the top 8 REITS that stand out among the pack, coupled with ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SGX: Z74) is Singapore’s largest operational telco, and it currently has three business segments: Group Consumer, Group Enterprise, and Group Digital Life. In mid-May, Singtel announced its full year earnings update ... ( read original story ...)

The wealth of HNWIs in Singapore grew by 12.8% to $858.42 billion in 2017. Singapore now has more high net worth individuals (HNWIs), whose wealth also grew by 12.8 percent from $761.24 billion in 2016 to $858.42 billion in 2017, reported Singapore ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG, June 19 (Reuters) - Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp Ltd (OCBC) plans to set up a wealth management business in China as part of a strategy to double its profit in five years in the country’s so-called Greater Bay Area, its chief executive said. ( read original story ...)

(CNN)We've made much of what President Donald Trump failed to get from Kim Jong Un in Singapore. Those failures would include steps toward verifiable irreversible denuclearization -- and a guarantee of an end to human rights abuses. Those are just a couple ... ( read original story ...)

Funny how the Fake News, in a coordinated effort with each other ... The president has pronounced his pride in the deal since he shook hands with Kim in Singapore. The agreement does include the return of the remains of American service members lost ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore home sales jumped to the highest in nine months in May, underscoring signs the city-state’s property market is recovering. Developers sold 1,121 units last month, the Urban Redevelopment Authority said Monday. That’s more than the revised 732 ... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Singapore Exchange Ltd. and National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. will remain partners for a little longer than both anticipated. An arbitrator deciding on a quarrel between the exchanges over Indian stock futures contracts ordered them to ... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Singapore home sales jumped to the highest in nine months in May, underscoring signs the city-state’s property market is recovering. Developers sold 1,121 units last month, the Urban Redevelopment Authority said Monday. That’s more than ... ( read original story ...)

Much of the coverage amounted to photos and videos of their motorcades and security personnel. Nevertheless, foreign journalists told Yahoo News Singapore that the organisation of the event was largely exemplary. In almost two decades of reporting ... ( read original story ...)

Was President Donald Trump’s summit in Singapore little more than the superficial equivalent of a ribbon-cutting? Was it just a cosmetic event, like turning over the first shovel of dirt at a decorated construction site? Maybe. It is a little ironic that ... ( read original story ...)

MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Singapore Exchange (SGX) (SES:S68.SI - News) on Saturday said a court-appointed arbitrator had allowed it to continue listing and trading of SGX Nifty contracts beyond August 2018, during dispute resolution with India's National ... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Singapore Exchange Ltd. and National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. will have to remain partners for a little longer than both anticipated. An arbitrator deciding on a quarrel between the exchanges over Indian stock futures contracts ordered ... ( read original story ...)