Singapore will host the premier blockchain virtual event from July 21-23, organised and supported by the city’s leading government agencies. ( read original story ...)
Meet the robot dog enforcing social distancing in Singapore
Singapore is testing Spot, a four-legged robot, in a public park to assist safe distancing efforts. (Roslan Rahman / AFP/) Leaves crunch underfoot as Spot marches through the park, back straight as a ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore offers more grants to help fintech firms ride out pandemic
The SG$6 million ($3.44 million) grant can be used by local fintech companies to cover their daily working capital expenses as well as finance new product development work with financial institutions. ( read original story ...)
Alaska Wants Singapore Airlines To Start Passenger Flights And Potentially Open A Hub In Anchorage During COVID-19
Singaporeans are an attractive population to market tourism in Alaska,” the airport told the U.S. government this week. Anchorage said Singapore has a high per-capita GDP and “a miserably hot and ... ( read original story ...)
Covid-19 outbreak has hastened shift to cashless world for Singapore’s migrant workers
Singapore's accelerated shift to a cashless society amid the Covid-19 pandemic has rippled out into the world of the migrant workers who, being cooped up in their lodgings and dormitories, are being ... ( read original story ...)
Import-export paperwork streamlined in Xinjiang
ASEAN free trade certificate of origin in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region was issued by the General Administration of Customs on Monday, ushering in a new way of doing things in the region. The ... ( read original story ...)
Clifford Chance Bolsters Singapore Offering With Restructuring Partner
Clifford Chance . Clifford Chance has hired a restructuring partner in Singapore. Shaun Langhorne, who starts with the Magic Circle firm next week, joins from Hogan Lovells where ... ( read original story ...)
MM Mega Market Vietnam aims to export 6,000 tonnes of local produce in 2020
As agricultural produce are facing multiple challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, MM Mega Market Vietnam aims to expand export markets and set the target to boost production by five times in 2020. ( read original story ...)
SocGen to Make Goodwill Payment to Singapore Airlines Short-Sellers
Societe Generale SA will make a one-time payment to those who used its daily leverage certificates to short Singapore Airlines Ltd. stock and got wiped out after the carrier’s share price surged ... ( read original story ...)
Reserve Bank of New Zealand is unlikely to go down the path of negative rates: Bank of Singapore
Sim Moh Siong from the Bank of Singapore reacts to the RBNZ's policy decision and gives his outlook for the New Zealand dollar. ( read original story ...)
Gaming firm Razer to roll out mask vending machines in Singapore
Gaming hardware maker Razer Inc plans to dispense its locally produced masks in Singapore through a network of vending machines across the city-state, where it has become compulsory to wear them in ... ( read original story ...)
Traders are rewriting strategies for post-epidemic Asia stocks
As it becomes increasingly clear that the coronavirus pandemic will have social and economic effects that outlast personnel lockdowns, market participants ... ( read original story ...)
Publicis Sapient hires Citibank marketer Jaz Lim as head of experience
Lim is tasked to bring products and service design to Southeast Asian clients with a focus on financial services, retail and healthcare. ( read original story ...)
Singapore Bourse Expected To Open In The Red
The Singapore stock market on Tuesday snapped the four-day winning streak in which it had advanced almost 50 points or 2 percent. The Straits Times Index now rests just above the 2,585-point plateau ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore plans coronavirus tests for all in migrant dormitories
Singapore plans to test all 323,000 migrant workers living in cramped dormitories that have become a hotbed for coronavirus in the tiny city-state, it said on Tuesday, eyeing an easing of curbs next ... ( read original story ...)
Carlyle, Singapore’s GIC Sued by Qatari Fund on Busted AmEx Deal
Carlyle Group Inc. and Singapore sovereign-wealth fund GIC Pte. are using fake excuses to renege on buying a 20% stake in American Express Global Business Travel, according an unsealed lawsuit.A unit ... ( read original story ...)