“Being based in Singapore, Purpose Venture Capital is ideally positioned ... a global team of advisors with a combined total of 250 years of proven experience in investments, tech business operations ...
Singapore’s ComfortDelGro bags $1.09 bln Australian bus contracts
The contract covers a few regions across Sydney and NSW spreading a network of public bus operations that are home to more than 700 buses, which ferry around 18 million passengers every year, ...
Sapporo Holdings Investor 3D Writes to External Directors Seeking Overhaul -Nikkei
In a letter to the directors dated Nov. 3, the fund noted that Sapporo Holdings had failed to meet its sales target during the past 15 years, and that its return on equity (ROE) a ...
Stock Market Live Updates: SGX Nifty signals a positive start; Tokyo shares trade higher
Nifty futures on the Singapore Exchange traded 74.5 points, or 0.41 per cent, higher at 18,277.50, signaling that Dalal Street was headed for a positive start on Monday. Tech View: Nifty forms long ...
HSBC CEO Noel Quinn vows to help reboot Hong Kong’s economy as city reopens for business after Covid restrictions
HSBC will do whatever it takes to help Hong Kong’s economy recover, says CEO Noel Quinn, adding that relaxation of quarantine measures will put the city back on the international business community’s ...
DBS is digital to the core: Singapore country head
With the emergence of decentralised finance, CNA's Olivia Marzuki talks to Shee Tse Koon, Country Head of DBS Singapore, about Project Guardian, a new initiative led by the Monetary Authority of ...
Proportion of ageing buses on Singapore’s roads grows, bucking green transport trend
Private bus companies are in no hurry to refresh their fleet because of a shortage of drivers and the higher cost of cleaner vehicles. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Kwek Kee Seng in Singapore – police
SINGAPORE: A Singaporean businessman wanted by the United States for violating sanctions on North Korea is currently in the city-state where he is under investigation, the Singapore police said. In a ...
Singapore succession due by 2025
Singapore’s planned political succession that would see Singaporean Minister of Finance Lawrence Wong (黃循財) become the country’s next leader is to coincide with general elections due by 2025, ...
Powerboat: Singapore’s Loh Kai Ling overcomes fear to win Asia C’ship’s female category
Even though she had done motorsports racing for nearly a decade, Loh Kai Ling still remembers the fear she felt when she tried her hand at powerboating about a year ago. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Golf: No mobile phone, just practise and focus – here’s why China’s Ding Wenyi is going places
The 17-year-old Chinese is the US Junior Amateur champion. Read more at straitstimes.com.
If Singapore’s politics goes wrong, our governance will go wrong too: PM Lee
SINGAPORE: The nation’s governance and “all our lives” will go wrong if Singapore’s politics goes wrong - something that has already happened in other countries, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on ...
Southeast Asia is a case study in Russia’s declining prospects as an arms exporter.
Analysts say Russia’s performance in Ukraine, coupled with Western sanctions, is likely to hurt its ability to sell weapons abroad. Southeast Asia is a case in point.
Singapore reports 1,893 new Covid-19 cases and one death on Sunday (Nov 6)
Singapore reported 1,893 new cases of Covid-19 on Sunday, bringing the total tally to 2,123,328. Of the new cases, 258 were detected through PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests and 1,635 through ...
Singapore PM Says Political Succession to Coincide With Vote
Singapore’s planned political succession that would see Finance Minister Lawrence Wong become the country’s next leader will coincide with general elections due by 2025, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong ...
Singapore vows to become crypto asset hub without cryptocurrency trading and speculations
Singapore wants to be a crypto asset hub but does not accept trading and speculations in cryptocurrencies, said Ravi Menon, managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), at the ...