Singapore’s dollar advanced to its strongest in almost a decade as traders weighed the difference between the local monetary authority’s relatively hawkish policy outlook compared with that of the ...
Cooking videos, online sales and modern flagship: How hawker brothers shake up family’s wet market business
To make matters worse, the Covid-19 pandemic and Singapore’s safe-distancing measures in 2020 further impacted the family’s business, leaving them stranded with hundreds of kilogrammes of unsold pork ...
Close to half of Singapore residents say they will never achieve financial freedom: Poll
SINGAPORE - More than two in five people in Singapore believe they will never be able to achieve financial freedom based on their current trajectory, a poll has found. Of the 3,000 people polled, 29 ...
Singapore’s twin engine approach to AI regulation
As AI creeps into every facet of daily life, its deployment and development have raised new issues for policymakers to consider. These include how copyright and data protection laws apply to web ...
Here’s What It’s Like To Stay In Singapore’s Most Iconic Hotel
If you’ve never heard of the Marina Bay Sands, you’ve undoubtedly seen it. Google Singapore, a tiny Southeast Asian metropolis, and every other image will include the hotel’s three sloping towers with ...
India-Singapore ministerial round table today, focus on enhancing bilateral trade and investment
Four senior ministers of the central government will be in Singapore on Monday for the second meeting of the India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable (ISMR). The delegation includes external affairs ...
What is the Difference between Rwanda and Singapore?
It is hard not to conclude that the reason why the State Department treats Rwanda so poorly relative to peer countries is that it is African.
FM Sitharaman Arrives In Singapore For 2Nd India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable
(MENAFN- IANS) Singapore, Aug 25 (IANS) Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman arrived in Singapore on Sunday to attend the 2nd India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable, where she will be joined by ...
S&P Global: DBS, OCBC, UOB prepare for lower rates by boosting deposits and adjusting strategies
Singapore’s leading banks are increasing their deposits, particularly those with longer maturities. For the second quarter ending June 30, DBS Group Holdings Ltd., Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd.
Goyal discusses ways to increase investments with top firms in Singapore
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday discussed ways to increase investments with the global business leaders in Singapore like Temasek Holdings, DBS bank, OMERS, Keppal infrastructure ...
Isetan Singapore to stop trading on Aug 29 after court sanctions privatisation scheme
Transfer books and register of members of the company will be close at 5 pm on Sept 5. Read more at straitstimes.com.
CVC, Abu Dhabi, Singapore Funds Make Near $15.6 Billion Bid for DB Schenker
A consortium formed by CVC Capital Partners, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Singapore’s sovereign-wealth fund GIC made a bid for Deutsche Bahn’s logistics division Schenker, which values the ...
Singapore market offers enormous scope for Thai insect exporters
The department said Thailand had the potential to export insects and their products. “The SFA’s approval for the import of consumable insects is a good opportunity for Thai entrepreneurs to penetrate ...
Singapore firms eye opportunities in cookstoves, EVs in Ghana trip to source for carbon credits
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Singapore’s search for carbon credits is hotting up, with companies here eyeing opportunities in Ghana on the back of the hike in carbon taxes that took effect in ...
Forget about robo-taxis in San Francisco: Autonomous vehicles are real in Singapore
Thanks to Boston startup Venti Technologies, dozens of self-driving trucks are operating 24 hours a day in one of the world’s busiest ports.
Over a quarter of Gen Zs in Singapore are financially unprepared
More than one in four Gen Zs in Singapore, aged 18 to 25, are not taking adequate measures to secure their financial future, according to lender United Overseas Bank (UOB).