Bursting at the seams: Singapore's cast-off clothing

SINGAPORE: Racks of brightly coloured clothes line the aisles at the Salvation Army’s Family Thrift Store in Tanglin. A mannequin sporting a black, curly wig wears a black and white printed dress, while another models a red dress with a black skinny belt ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore SMEs: financing through debt crowdfunding platforms

An entrepreneur who is attempting to scale up operations or meet his firm’s working capital requirement may struggle to find a lender willing to extend finance. Fortunately, a number of debt crowdfunding platforms have been launched in Singapore in the ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore is India's benchmark

In his keynote address, Dr Kumar Pratap said that in the area of urban development India has a lot to learn from Singapore. And if India was looking for a country as a benchmark in its development goal, then it has to be Singapore, he said. Dr Pratap was ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore's first Pikachu Parade held at Changi Aiport

SINGAPORE: Virtual reality game Pokemon Go may have taken Singapore and the world by storm earlier this year, but a few characters came to life at Changi Airport on Friday (Nov 18), when the airport hosted the city-state's first Pikachu Parade. The promise ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore trials self-driving e-scooters

Singapore - Passengers who want to go around shopping malls and airports can now do so on a driverless e-scooter. The scooter was launched on Thursday in a workshop organised by the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, hosted in the National ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s push for fintech supremacy

As the Singapore FinTech Festival comes to an end, Singapore has quite loudly announced itself as committed to long-term investment in the fintech sector. The event drew more than 10,000 participants from about 50 countries, making it the largest ever ... ( read original story ...)

Compliance specialists in demand amid tougher bank regulations

These PMETs already have experience and know the business. All we have to do is to take them through situations where compliance knowledge can be applied and they can be a quick build-up to the existing pool of compliance talents in Singapore,” she told ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore's central bank says want more rated bonds

SINGAPORE - Singapore's central bank said on Thursday it wants more bonds to be rated and would consider ways to offset the cost of ratings for existing issuers. The comments came amid a rout in Singapore's largely unrated offshore oil and gas bonds where ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore to increase cooperation with Indonesia in 5 areas

SINGAPORE: At a joint press statement in Semarang, Central Java, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Long made a commitment with President Joko Widodo that Singapore and Indonesia will increase cooperation in five areas, including investment in industrial ... ( read original story ...)

FEC approves bilateral tax agreement between Nigeria, Singapore

They buy oil from us. Petroleum export to Singapore for the last five years is about $264 billion and we import about N311 billion worth of goods from them.’’ Also the Minister of State, Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, told correspondents that FEC approved ... ( read original story ...)

DBS said India’s bank note reform pushed up deposit growth

India’s bank note reform has pushed up deposit growth and boosted liquidity that may, in turn depress, inflationary pressures, the Development Bank of Singapore (DBS) said on Thursday. “The banknote reform has pushed up deposit growth, which in turn ... ( read original story ...)