Signs of a slowdown in electronics/ semiconductors from South Korea and Taiwan are less than comforting.” Over the medium-term, Asean looks set to make continued progress in trade integration with the ...
Singapore Customs arrests two men found with more than 2,500 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes
The Singapore Customs arrested two male Bangladeshis, aged 23 and 28 and seized 2,500 cartons and 19 sticks of duty-unpaid cigarettes, which evaded over S$230,000 in total duty and Goods and Services ...
Singapore Producer Price Inflation Slows To 7.7%
Singapore's producer price inflation eased for the fifth straight month in November, primarily due to a slowdown in the price growth ...
Asia’s Largest Real Estate Investment Trust Buys Singapore Shopping Malls For $1.6 Billion
Hong Kong’s Link REIT is venturing into Singapore with a S$2.16 billion ($1.6 billion) acquisition of two shopping malls in the country’s suburban area from Mercatus Co-operative.
How Singapore is making big space for art
Southeast Asia’s smallest country, Singapore is nurturing and growing its local arts and culture scene to an exciting scale.
Mobile phone shop employee used customer data to illegally pre-register SIM cards
SINGAPORE: A mobile phone shop employee illegally used customer data to pre-register SIM cards, transferred money on a loan shark's instructions and drove without a licence ...
DBS makes key leadership changes for institutional banking business
Joyce Tee, now group head of SME banking, to head the institutional banking group for DBS China. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Singapore shares fall at Thursday’s open; STI down 0.5%
SINGAPORE shares were pulled into negative territory at Thursday’s (Dec 29) opening, following a depressing session on Wall Street a day earlier. Read more at The Business Times.
Singapore Shares May Run Out Of Steam On Thursday
The Singapore stock market has ticked higher in consecutive trading days, collecting almost 10 points or 0.3 percent along the way.
Singapore’s 2023 Budget statement to be delivered in Parliament on Feb 14
SINGAPORE: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong will deliver Singapore's 2023 Budget statement in Parliament on Feb 14, 2023, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said on Thursday ...
NSF participates in loanshark scam, then escapes to Batam
SINGAPORE - A full-time national serviceman with the Singapore Civil Defence Force was on probation over a Covid-19-related offence when he opened two bank accounts which others later used to receive ...
Singapore Is Set to Hike Its Goods and Services Tax in January. Here’s How It Will Work
Middle-income Singaporeans could be affected most by Singapore’s GST hike, which is designed to support an increase government social spending.
Man enters Singapore illegally and stays for 15 years
A 58-year-old Chinese national lived and worked in Singapore illegally for 15 years from 2007 to 2022 despite being banned from entering the country since 2006.Yan Jinfa was on Wednesday (Dec ...
Malaysian woman looking for her birth family in Singapore
She was given up for adoption at birth in April 1959 to neighbours in Kota Bharu in Kelantan. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Singapore’s digital banks not the game changer they promise to be
DIGITAL banks appeared poised to shake Singapore’s financial scene up in 2022. But their entry has turned out to be underwhelming, with limited utility for the average consumer. Read more at The ...
Pickier investors, reluctant borrowers could dampen Singapore’s debt capital market
A RISING interest rate environment, global macro worries and geopolitical tensions may hinder corporates from raising funds in Singapore’s debt capital market (DCM) next year. Companies are expected ...