Tag: business

SINGAPORE: The Singapore customs seized more than 5,000 bags of counterfeit rice imported from India on Friday. The infringement was reported to the authorities by the owner of the Singapore-registered trademark. The customs officers swung into action upon ... ( read original story ...)

LONDON Barclays (BARC.L) completed the sale of its Singapore and Hong Kong wealth management businesses for a less-than-expected $225 million (181.06 million pound), as not all of the bank's customers chose to transfer their business across to the buyer ... ( read original story ...)

They're betting that the city of Johor Bahru, bordering Singapore, will eventually become the next Shenzhen. "These Chinese players build by the thousands at one go, and they scare the hell out of everybody," said Siva Shanker, head of investments at Axis ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: More than 5,000 bags of counterfeit rice imported from India were seized, Singapore Customs said on Friday. The owner of the Singapore-registered trademark, who suspected that the imported rice infringed its trademark, had reported the shipment ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s government slashed its economic growth and exports forecasts for 2016 after the economy contracted in the third quarter, reinforcing the risk of a recession amid fresh uncertainty around global trade under US President-elect Donald ... ( read original story ...)

This relationship can grow and both countries can benefit," he told an audience of 200 business and government leaders at the Russia-Singapore Business Forum (RSBF). The event, organised by trade-promotion agency International Enterprise (IE) Singapore at ... ( read original story ...)

Speaking to his Russian counterpart Igor Shuvalov and more than 200 delegates at the Russia Singapore Business Forum, Mr Tharman said that with a cloud of uncertainty looming over the globe, there is no sure way to tell who will become winners or losers. ( read original story ...)

The Singapore Business Federation (SBF) has been actively working, over the last eight years, with SPRING and industry partners to advocate business continuity management (BCM) and support the need for enterprises to be BCM-certified. To sustain Singapore ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE workers are caught between their cubicle and a hard ... Some people work long hours for no good reason at all, says an analyst at an investment bank whom The Business Times (BT) will call "James". "There are people who stay late in the office ... ( read original story ...)

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Raudaschl was exposed to the ins and outs of running a small company from a young age with her grandfather and mother running a food business. In the late 1990s, she moved to Singapore and joined Indoguna, which was set up in ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE — Retailers have strongly objected to a proposal ... 99 per cent of the respondents stated that such a prohibition would negatively affect their business, while 97 per cent were concerned that the move could lead adult smokers to turn to ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore's defense ministry said on Thursday it was trying ... as well as full compliance with all regulatory and trade requirements in its conduct of business," the spokesman said. APL is a subsidiary of the French-based CMA CGM Group. ( read original story ...)

Growth was weighed down primarily by the weak performance of the business services and wholesale and retail trade sectors. The MTI said for the rest of the year, Singapore's GDP growth is expected to remain modest, while for 2017, global growth is ... ( read original story ...)

External demand has remained stubbornly weak, with China, the euro zone and the United States — Singapore’s top three trading partners — importing less from the Republic. Amid fresh uncertainty around global trade sparked by US President-elect Donald ... ( read original story ...)

THE Singapore Business Federation (SBF) said on Thursday it supports the calls of the Apec Business Advisory Council (ABAC) to resist protectionism and inward-looking policies, as "open and inclusive global trading system can act as a catalyst for ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Indonesia’s biggest banana producer, Nusantara Tropical Farm, signed a memorandum of understanding with Benelux Flower and Food for its first Cavendish banana export to Singapore. The contract was signed during the Fruit Indonesia 2016 ... ( read original story ...)