SINGAPORE: Afghanistan will send senior officials to Singapore to attend programmes on topics such as public administration, urban planning and sustainable development under an agreement signed on Friday (Apr 7), Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore, Afghanistan eyes to upgrade bilateral relations
SINGAPORE: Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani called on President Tony Tan Keng Yam at the Istana on Friday (April 7), during his first official visit to Singapore. At the meeting, the two presidents reaffirmed the friendly relations between ... ( read original story ...)
Pre-orders for Samsung Galaxy S8, S8+ to start Apr 7
SINGAPORE: Samsung's latest flagship smartphone will be available for pre-orders from Friday (Apr 7), the electronics giant announced on Wednesday. The long-awaited Galaxy S8 is the technology company's first new premium phone after it permanently ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore cuts jail term for megachurch leader in pop music fraud case
A Singapore court on Friday cut the jail sentence for the co-founder of one of the city-state's most popular churches, after he appealed his conviction and sentence for misusing millions of dollars to support of his wife's pop singing career. The Court of ... ( read original story ...)
Losing Streak May End For Singapore Stock Market
(RTTNews.com) - The losing streak has hit three sessions now for the Singapore stock market, which has fallen almost a dozen points or 0.4 percent along the way. The Straits Times Index remains just above the 3,175-point plateau, although the market may ... ( read original story ...)
Is Singapore’s property market headed for a quick upswing?
After a long, plodding downtrend, Singapore's housing market may be gathering forces for a rebound. Sigrid Zialcita, managing director for Asia Pacific research at Cushman & Wakefield, told CNBC's "The Rundown" last week that she expected a turning point ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore's security industry, plagued by high turnover, to see robots in its midst
SINGAPORE: It cruises past a row of parked cars under the blazing hot sun at Outram Road. Suddenly, it stops in its tracks and zooms in on something. “It has potentially identified a blacklisted car, through its car-plate," explained group managing ... ( read original story ...)
Standard Chartered in Singapore poaches ANZ staff
It has been hiring for its structured finance team. Standard Chartered has been hiring for its structured finance team in Singapore with the appointment of a new director who has regional responsibilities. Soon Huat Tng joined Stan Chart last month as a ... ( read original story ...)
Strong IPO pipeline for 2017: Report
SINGAPORE – Soaring equity markets in the first three months of the year supported the highest number of initial public offerings (IPOs) globally since 2007, according to a report by professional services firm Ernst & Young (EY). In the first three ... ( read original story ...)
Here are the results to OCBC senior executive’s lie detector test
In line with its latest Stay True campaign, OCBC Bank Singapore strapped Dennis Tan, head of consumer financial services Singapore, to a lie detector for a live question and answer broadcast on Facebook. The segment was led by two cast members of SGAG ... ( read original story ...)
SIA taps SITA for mobile app improvement
Passengers can now access range of digital magazines through SIA mobile app. Singapore Airlines passengers will now be able to get free digital magazines on their devices. Now being assisted by the communications and IT solutions provider SITA, SIA offers ... ( read original story ...)
Asia Property Awards 2017 programme revamped to include 14 markets
Country winners from the aforementioned 14 markets advance to the seventh annual PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards grand final in Singapore on 7-8 November to compete for regional titles and be crowned the "best in Asia" in 2017. Last year's grand final ... ( read original story ...)
CEO pay at Singapore's DBS, OCBC, UOB shrank last year as profits fell
SINGAPORE (Nikkei Markets) -- The choppy Singapore economy ate into the pay checks of some of the city-state's best paid chief executives last year. Based on annual reports filed over the past two weeks, the CEOs of Singapore's three banking giants saw ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore tops auto sales risk-reward index in Southeast Asia
It scored 74.6 out of 100. Singapore leads the pack of Southeast Asian countries in terms of auto sales, said BMI Research. According to BMI Research’s auto sales risk-reward index (RRI), Singapore registered a score of 74.6 out of 100. This places the ... ( read original story ...)
Google-Backed Undersea Cable to Link Singapore, Australia
SubPartners originally announced a Perth-Singapore cable back in 2013, with the intent to finance the construction itself and allow other companies to buy capacity. But SubPartners struggled to attract seed money, according to IT News, so it restructured ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore's central bank likely not turning hawkish any time soon
Singapore's economy may be perking up, but the central bank isn't likely to turn hawkish at this month's policy review, analysts said. Khoon Goh, head of Asia research at ANZ, said in a note on Wednesday that the question wasn't really whether Singapore's ... ( read original story ...)