The 6% growth of its passenger traffic lagged Guangzhou's 10.3% and Delhi's 14.1%. Singapore airports fell from 17th to 18th place in the rankings for the busiest airports in the world, the Airports Council International (ACI) revealed. According to a ... ( read original story ...)
Academics back Singapore historian grilled by ‘fake news’ panel
A Singaporean historian attacked for challenging the official narrative of the city-state's history during parliamentary hearings on "fake news" has won backing from over 130 academics from universities around the world. In an open letter, they accused the ... ( read original story ...)
Childhood obesity: The Singapore fat camps where children are shamed for being overweight
But that is exactly what Singapore has done, and the results speak for themselves — with a markedly lower obesity rate compared with other western countries. So, with obesity rates among children increasing in Australia and data showing at least one in ... ( read original story ...)
Banks in Singapore and Hong Kong “blacklist” contractors who quit after a few days
Contracting jobs are booming in Singapore and Hong Kong banking, but think carefully before you take one. Here’s what to weigh up. https://news.efinancialcareers.com/sg-en/241344/junior-singapore-finance-jobs-with-10k-monthly-salaries/ Contract jobs in ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s premier real estate tilt elects first female chair
Following the success of its very first stand-alone gala dinner last November, the PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards (Singapore), presented in 2018 by Kohler and supported by PropertyGuru.com.sg, Singapore’s No.1 property site, returns for its eighth ... ( read original story ...)
PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards (Singapore) 2018 nominations open, elects first female head judge
Last year’s Awards saw GuocoLand named as top local developer. Nominations are now open for the 2018 PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards (Singapore), which will see close to 30 awards given out to the city-state’s top developers. New awards will be ... ( read original story ...)
Kunal Chatterjee is Visa’s new country manager for Singapore and Brunei
The 10-year Visa veteran was most recently vice-president of global client management, heading the Citibank account team. He also previously spent three-and-a-half years on the country team as head of business development for Singapore and Brunei. ( read original story ...)
Singapore Morning News For April 10
SINGAPORE’S competition watchdog launched its new consumer protection role on Monday with the announcement of two market studies – on online travel booking and the transfer of personal data. Rising U.S.-China trade tensions are raising alarm bells in ... ( read original story ...)
Mining the cryptocurrency craze as rigs sprout across Singapore
With the digital currency fever taking Singapore by storm, local and foreign companies that host computing “mining rigs” have been popping up over the island within the past six months. Mining rigs – fashioned out of various gaming computing ... ( read original story ...)
SINGAPORE TURF CLUB INTRODUCES NEW FORM OF BETTING
Singapore Turf Club will introduce a new form of betting, Flexi-Quartet, from Wednesday, 11 April 2018. It allows customers the flexibility to decide how much they want to invest for a Quartet bet with multiple combinations. With the introduction of ... ( read original story ...)
Asia’s first floating rubbish bin placed at Republic of Singapore Yacht Club
SINGAPORE- A floating rubbish bin that can collect the ocean's trash is now bobbing in the waters of Singapore. Wartsila Corporation, a Global Pilot Partner of the Seabin Project since 2017, is now donating Seabins to different marinas around the world ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Exchange to list Indian equity derivative products in June 2018
The Singapore Exchange on Wednesday said it would list Indian equity derivative products in June, nearly two months after India's three main bourses announced they would stop licensing their indexes to overseas exchanges. The Singapore Exchange on ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore will continue to back China’s economic efforts: PM
Singapore will continue to support China's efforts in its next stage of opening up and in upholding the multilateral trading system, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday at a meeting with Chinese Vice-President Wang Qishan. PM Lee said the world ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore: Police arrest 136 suspects in 22-day islandwide anti-vice operation
Singapore police arrested two men and 134 women ... and the six Police Land Divisions. The news release stated that the coordinated raids were conducted at multiple locations islandwide, including condominiums and residential units at Geylang, Tanjong ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore and Hong Kong are winning over start-up accelerators
Start-up accelerators see Asia as a hotbed for technological innovation. Those companies see potential in Singapore and Hong Kong, primarily because of their strong reserves of tech experts. There's a new breed of entrepreneurship programs turning to Asia ... ( read original story ...)
Trade Risks Aside, Singapore Central Bank Is Ready to Tighten
Singapore’s central bank is one step closer to tightening monetary policy this week. A majority of economists surveyed by Bloomberg predict policy makers will look past the latest trade skirmishes between the world’s two largest economies and assess ... ( read original story ...)