Singapore’s domestic exports, excluding oil, rose in February, snapping three months of falls, driven by increased sales to China Hong Kong and the US. Non-oil domestic exports rose 4.9 per cent year ... ( read original story ...)
Southeast Asia Expecting Up To 10 Percent Business Growth in 2019
SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global market research company Euromonitor International released today a new white paper, “Southeast Asia Business Leaders Report: Inside Your Peers’ 2019 Executive Agenda ... ( read original story ...)
Synagie eyes ‘pocket insurance’ market with new mobile app
SINGAPORE (Mar 18): E-commerce company Synagie has launched an insurance mobile app called Kiasu.me targeting the “pocket insurance” market, where premiums are low enough to be paid with “pocket ... ( read original story ...)
FEATURE -From hardship to hope, Singapore’s migrant poets find their voices
29-year-old Apriyani moved to Singapore in 2013 to become a domestic worker as she wanted to buy land for her father, a farmer, back home. Working from dawn to dusk looking after an expatriate family, ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore ranked city with highest quality of living in Asia
“The best understand that the quality of living is an essential component of a city’s attractiveness for businesses and mobile talent,” the report added. Singapore-headquartered online media company ... ( read original story ...)
Singtel launches Singapore’s first SEA Games esports team
To aid in the grooming of Singapore’s first official cyber athletes for SEA ... The league will see teams battling it out in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang – one of the most popular mobile games in the ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore edtech startup raises seed funding from Nest Tech
Singapore-based edtech startup Kalpha has raised a six-figure amount in a seed funding round from venture capital fund Nest Tech. The startup’s mobile app allows people to discover, connect, and meet ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Telecommunications : Singtel TV and IMDA to bring Singapore stories to life
Singapore, 15 March 2019 - Singtel TV is seeking talented ... The content can also be enjoyed by all Singaporeans with the Singtel TV GO mobile app for free, without a subscription. Singtel TV invites ... ( read original story ...)
India mobile marketing firm Affle acquires Singapore-based O2O platform
India-based mobile marketing firm Affle Group announced that its subsidiary – Affle International – has acquired Shoffr, a Singapore-based online-to-offline (O2O) platform. Affle claims that the ... ( read original story ...)
Commentary: Becoming future-ready, inside the quiet revolution of Singapore’s legal sector
SINGAPORE: As we prepared to board a morning flight to Dubai ... client expectations have moved up several notches. Rapid advances in technology and the higher demands of cost-sensitive and ... ( read original story ...)
Why Standard Chartered finds it hard to hire private bankers in Singapore and Hong Kong
It all looked so promising for Standard Chartered’s private bank in Asia back in 2016. Didier Von Daeniken had joined from Barclays as Stan Chart’s Singapore-based global private banking boss ... ( read original story ...)
The three values that shaped Singapore
Though Singapore celebrated its 50th year of independence in 2015, the country has wasted no time organising its next tribute. The Singapore Bicentennial, which is being recognised at events, exhibits ... ( read original story ...)
Fat cats or top dogs: Is the Singapore CEO overpaid?
But not all Singapore companies reward their CEOs in a similar fashion. Mak Yuen Teen, associate professor of accounting in NUS Business School, says that CEO remuneration in professionally managed ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore middle distillate stocks ease on higher gasoil export flows
Onshore middle distillate stocks in the trading hub of Singapore eased back for the first time in three weeks, falling 1.54% in the week ended March 13 on higher outflows of gasoil from the city-state ... ( read original story ...)
Author returns with the start of new series set in 1930s Singapore
Singapore-based author Ovidia Yu is back with her ninth novel, The Frangipani Tree Mystery. The new work from the award-winning author and prolific playwright (she has penned 30) is the start of a ... ( read original story ...)
Finance sector expects weaker job gains in Q2
It was one of the two sectors that have weaker hiring prospects in the upcoming quarter. Employers in Singapore’s finance, insurance, & real estate sector expect that they will hire fewer people in Q2 ... ( read original story ...)