From artificial intelligence to virtual and augmented reality, take a look at five current technologies, some of them still relatively new, but all of which have potential to one day disrupt the ... ( read original story ...)
Should Property Investors Target the Millennial Market?
In 2018, 54% of Singaporeans polled aged between 21 and 36 years old were residential property owners. 24% had multiple homes. Could the millennial market be a lucrative sector that investors have ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore: Further improvement in Q3 GDP outlook – UOB
“Singapore’s industrial production surprised market expectations with a 24.2% y/y (+10.1% m/m sa) surge in September 2020… Excluding biomedical manufacturing, industrial production grew 8.5% y/y.” ... ( read original story ...)
UOB levels up its Group-wide training programme, Better U, as part of the Bank’s commitment to invest in its people
PRNewswire/ -- United Overseas Bank (UOB) today announced that it has expanded its award-winning Group-wide learning and development programme, Better U, to enable its employees to master skillsets in ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s largest commercial bank reportedly launching crypto trading
DBS, Singapore’s largest retail and commercial bank, seems to be preparing to launch a cryptocurrency trading platform. The list of supported fiat currencies includes the United States dollar ... ( read original story ...)
Breaking: The largest commercial bank in Singapore launches cryptocurrency exchange
DBS, of the largest commercial banks in Singapore, announced the soft launch of the proprietary crypto-to-fiat cryptocurrency trading platforms. At the initial stages, the users will have access to ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore announces plan to import 100MW of electricity from Malaysia
Singapore could be importing electricity from Malaysia as early as next year, as part of a long-term plan to bolster clean energy generation and consumption across the region. Singapore regulator ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore SMBs hopeful digital banks will yield cost, operational benefits
Singapore is preparing to announce the list of successful bidders for up to five digital bank licenses by the end of this year, with these players expected to commence business by mid-2021. To succeed ... ( read original story ...)
Wireless Connectivity Market Worth $141.1 Billion by 2025
Impact of COVID-19 on current wireless connectivity market size and forecast. This press release was orginally distributed by SBWire. Northbrook, IL -- -- 10/26/2020 -- According ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore must be prudent in using its precious energy resources: Grace Fu
To reduce carbon emissions, fumes and noise created by mobile diesel generators, more than 650 made-in-Singapore solar panels were installed at the recovery facility at the Changi Exhibition Centre. ( read original story ...)
Are These Global Property Trends Reaching Our Shores?
In this piece, we take a look at some of the global property trends in recent times that are affecting, or could affect, our local market activity, and what opportunities they could potentially offer ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s unique ‘collective sales’ lose appeal to investors even as housing market shows signs of early recovery
The Covid-19 pandemic has dulled investors’ appetite for choice pieces of property in Singapore even as the property market of the Southeast Asian financial hub is likely to be one of the first to ... ( read original story ...)
Dollar retreats again in Asia as solid data offsets virus worries
0#NETUSDFX=> “People are wary of putting on fresh positions given the event risk,” said Mayank Mishra, an FX strategist at Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore. “Price action over the next ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore has strengthened status as global logistics hub amid Covid-19 crisis: Chan Chun Sing
The Republic has been kept open to trade even as global supply chains are disrupted.. Read more at straitstimes.com. ( read original story ...)
Cabbies and office workers: Meet Singapore’s ordinary royals
In the modern republic of Singapore, several seemingly ordinary people working in offices or driving taxis can claim to be of royal blood, descendants of a 19th century monarch who ceded control of ... ( read original story ...)
Meet Singapore’s royal descendants living low-key lives as taxi drivers and office workers
Southeast Asian island to the British. But few residents in one of the world’s most cosmopolitan cities are even aware of this lineage, a sore point with Tengku, or Prince, Shawal, acclaimed by some ... ( read original story ...)