Tag: business

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's on-year export growth beat expectations in March, thanks to a surge in petrochemical and pharmaceutical shipments, a sign the city-state's trade recovery is widening to non-electronic sectors. Non-oil domestic exports ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE has a vision: That is all factories housed in the ... assistant managing director Lim Kok Kiang told The Business Times in an exclusive interview. For one thing, the manufacturing sector here is at an inflexion point, having reached a critical ... ( read original story ...)

In a recent report Mr Hari wrote for The Business Times, he mentioned that a KPMG report commissioned by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in August last year noted that payment preferences still remain largely paper-based. Consumers use cash for ... ( read original story ...)

private condominium or landed property in Singapore. This is so we can prudently use the money we have for financial planning purposes - investing, buying another property, even starting a business or promising to pay for your children's education. ( read original story ...)

it promised much to raise the quality of scientific research here that would lead to new business opportunities. The Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (Smart) was trumpeted as MIT's first research centre outside the United States ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE — In a major move towards cementing business ties between Singapore and Shanghai, nine memoranda of understandings (MOUs) were signed yesterday between financial institutions and corporates from the two cities. The alliances, aimed at ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG Hong Kong and Singapore are set to launch new disclosure rules for wealth managers on what they are paid by funds to sell their products, moves aimed at revealing conflicts of interest but which could disrupt a business that generates billions of ... ( read original story ...)

As the global economy perked up from late last year, Singapore's exports and manufacturing have bounced from depressed levels, helping lift inflation in line with official forecasts. The improving prospects saw 18 of 19 analysts in a Reuters survey ... ( read original story ...)

The Business Times and OCBC Bank are joint organisers of the award which first started in 1998. Into its 10th year, other partners are MasterCard, Acorn Marketing and Research Consultants, Insead, Spring Singapore, Singtel, Maxus and RSM, which is also the ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: SINGAPORE – A sizeable haul of duty-unpaid cigarettes was seized from a Singapore-registered car at Woodlands Checkpoint on Friday (April 7), the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said in a press release. The car was stopped by ICA ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: One year after the ratification of the OECD Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters, Singapore has entered into automatic exchange of information agreements. During French President Francois Hollande’s visit to Singapore ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Aimed at helping startups find access to capital, Singapore’s stock exchange (SGX) signed two separate Memorandums of Understandings (MOUs) with separate stakeholders in the startup economy. The agreement that can be considered unique to our ... ( read original story ...)

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 ...)

SINGAPORE: The 2017 International Furniture Fair Singapore, held in conjunction with the 34th Asean Furniture Show, drew 21,966 trade professionals from the furniture, interior design and furnishings industries, according to results released this week. The ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: The Customs officials confiscated cigarettes hidden in the hollow base of a wooden altar led to operations that netted more than 2,000 cartons of the smuggled goods. An Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officer noticed anomalies when ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: An illegal consignment of corals from the Philippines has been seized from an importer's premises, said the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) and the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) in a joint news release on Monday (Apr 3). ( read original story ...)