Pan Pacific Hotels Group is selling one of its hotels in Singapore to Midtown Properties, a company owned by tycoon Choo Chong Ngen, founder of the Hotel 81 budget hotel chain, for S$525 million ($389 million).
Singapore tells crypto operators: act like grown up financial institutions
Digital payment skeptics of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but grifters and crims Singapore has joined the ranks of nations requiring digital payment operators to follow the same sort of ...
Live news: Singapore’s economic outlook has ‘dimmed’, says central bank chief
“Inflation appears to have peaked globally though there is uncertainty over how quickly inflation will return to targets,” said Ravi Menon, managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, in ...
Singapore’s Central Bank Posts Record Annual Net Loss
Singapore’s central bank posted a record annual loss due to the currency-translation effects of a stronger Singapore dollar and high interest expenses from mopping up excess liquidity in the banking ...
MAS broadens tax incentives to encourage single family offices to invest in Singapore
THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is expanding its scope of tax incentives for single family offices (SFOs) in Singapore to encourage them to deploy capital in the country more purposefully ...
International law firms double down on Singapore expansion
Driven by the continued flow of institutional money and private wealth into Singapore, firms are betting big on the Lion City ...
‘Love Letters’ From Death Row: Singapore’s Pre-execution Photo Shoots
Death row inmate Nazeri Lajim beams at the camera, fingers raised in a "V" sign, wearing a shirt emblazoned with large motifs and showing no signs of his impending hanging.
Singapore’s MAS Pumps $6 Billion into Climate Transition
The Monetary Authority of Singapore has set aside about 2% of its equities portfolio or just over S$8 billion ($6 billion) to a climate transition program.
StanChart and Atome Form First-Of-Its-Kind Lender of Record Partnership
Standard Chartered announced that it has formed the first-of-its-kind Lender of Record partnership in Singapore with Atome.
Over 1 million in virtual queue for Taylor Swift S’pore’s UOB presale
The UOB presale for Swift's tickets began at 12pm on Jul. 5 but some Swifties were facing problems entering the Ticket Master website at least an hour before the start of the presale. The problem, ...
Taylor Swift fans brace themselves as UOB ticket presales start for Singapore concerts
Wednesday (Jul 5) marks the day of UOB presales for Taylor Swift’s upcoming Singapore concerts and if past concert sales have been any indication, it will be an absolute bloodbath. Common problems ...
How To Get Tickets For Taylor Swift’s 2024 Singapore Concert On 7 July
Taylor Swift is coming to Singapore, and if Coldplay was anything to go by, her six-day The Eras Tour stopover in town will see tickets being snapped up in an instant. It’s going to be a battle – nay, ...
DBS launches e-CNY merchant collection solution in China amid growing CBDC usage
e-CNY usage in China has grown steadily since its pilot launch in April 2020. There were over 13.6 billion e-CNY in circulation as at December 2022. The CBDC is currently accepted across 26 cities and ...
Singapore to Change Family Office Tax Rules For Local Boost
The Monetary Authority of Singapore will change the tax incentives it gives to qualified family offices in an effort to boost the hiring of locals and investment in the country’s equity markets.
Singapore growth outlook uncertain, fight against inflation still on, says central bank
Singapore's near-term growth would remain weak as prospects had dimmed but inflation should reduce by year-end.
HK should follow Singapore to export smart city experience
As of April this year, around 5,160 unique machine-readable datasets from the government, public and private sectors of Hong Kong were available to the public for free, an increase of more than 50% ...