SINGAPORE -- The Singaporean government on Wednesday projected its growth for 2024 to come in between 1% and 3%, as the trade-oriented economy expects a recovery in global electronics demand. For the ...
Hongkong Land appoints Singapore-based Mapletree’s Michael Smith as CEO
Smith is currently the regional CEO for Europe and the US at Singapore-based global real estate investment company Mapletree Robert Wong, who has been Hongkong Land's CEO since 2016, will stay on as a ...
Unbridled innovation: a rude awakening for Singapore’s banks?
One episode of widespread unavailability of digital banking and ATM services in May, not the first, saw the Monetary Authority of Singapore impose an additional capital requirement on DBS – a harsh ...
Unfinished business: Toilets at hawker centres, coffee shops still too dirty
Singapore has much to be proud of when it comes to sanitation, but it has failed to gets its hawker centres and coffee shops to clean up their act Read more at straitstimes.com.
Singapore GDP Data Due On Wednesday
Singapore will on Wednesday release Q3 numbers for gross domestic product, highlighting a light day for Asia-Pacific economic ...
A mobile and IT products distributor for a new generation
FROM selling bulldozers to hawking Russian vodka, Mumbai-born Kailash Gupta has done it. And he started early: At 16, he began selling bottled water to fund his studies. Today, his company Generation ...
China’s EV upstart Li Auto hunts for chip talent in Singapore
Li Auto, a electric vehicle maker adored by young Chinese families, is stepping up its endeavors to build in-house automotive chips and has gone abroad to ...
Hyundai’s robot-heavy EV factory in Singapore is fully operational
While a car factory vegetable garden may sound somewhat odd, it actually compliments the Singapore government’s ongoing “ 30 by 30 ” initiative. Due to the region’s rocky geology, Singapore can only ...
Singapore spirited but decade of despair against Thailand continues with World Cup qualifier defeat
Over a decade of disappointing results against regional rivals Thailand continue for Singapore on Tuesday -- even despite a spirited showing from them.
BBYO convention in Singapore offers a rare sense of community
For a few years eight decades ago, Shanghai was home to an outpost of what would become BBYO, the global Jewish youth movement. At the time, the Chinese city was a refuge for Jews fleeing ...
10 more spots designated for busking in Singapore
“For example, Singapore Sports Hub’s location is very convenient, right outside the Stadium MRT station, and other (locations) are in the city areas with big crowds like Cineleisure and Lau Pa Sat, ...
Motional and Hyundai to jointly build IONIQ 5 robotaxi in Singapore
Hyundai Motor Group and Motional, the Aptiv-Hyundai joint venture aimed at commercializing autonomous vehicles, announced plans Tuesday to co-develop production-ready versions of the all-electric ...
Singapore receives 94,332 Indian tourists in October; India third tourist-generating market
A total of 94,332 Indian tourists visited Singapore in October, up from 81,014 in the preceding month. It took over countries such as Malaysia and Australia,' said the data released by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB).
94,332 Indians visit Singapore in October, highest after Indonesia, China
A total of 94,332 Indian tourists visited Singapore in October, up from 81,014 in the preceding month, according to a media report on Tuesday.
Money Talks – How to invest your first S$100,000
Dexter Tiah was only two years into his first job when he accumulated enough to start his first S$100,000 investment portfolio. The investor and author of the personal finance book Laughs, Losses and ...
Singapore launches fish farm in a shipping container to bolster food security
From the outside, there’s little to suggest the nondescript grey shipping container could help transform Singapore’s food security. Yet the city-state has high hopes for the project lurking within the ...