Tag: business

Singapore is one of the desirable places for entrepreneurs to start their business, and the government is giving a lot of effort to provide entrepreneurs with everything they need, from grants, co-working spaces, and a network of international investors. ( read original story ...)

The so-called water industry is much more than about making money, because a clean and reliable water supply is vital not just to business but also mankind's survival. For this reason, Singapore is at the front line of water innovation, becoming a hub for ... ( read original story ...)

The Singapore Exchange (SGX) is bringing back lunch breaks and widening the bid-and-offer spread, giving up a faster-paced approach to boosting volumes made after a penny stock crash in 2013 that rattled confidence and saw retail business slump. ( read original story ...)

In his speech at the event, Vietnamese Ambassador to Singapore Nguyen Tien Minh highlighted the significance the conference and the presence of Vietnam’s SMEs at the event, saying this shows the businesses’ dynamism to look for business and investment ... ( read original story ...)

Dr Zhang Weina, a senior lecturer at the National University of Singapore Business School's department of finance, said women need to start financial planning as soon as possible. The reasons are compelling: the rising cost of living, the risk of being ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: A former trader at DBS Group Holdings Ltd’s brokerage unit on Friday was convicted by a Singapore court for spoofing the securities market in the city’s first such criminal case. Dennis Tey Thean Yang, 33, pleaded guilty to eight of the 23 ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund is considering making a £10.6bn takeover bid for Logicor, one of Amazon’s biggest landlords. In a move that would disrupt a planned float of the business, GIC and other state-backed investors including China ... ( read original story ...)

Airline passengers today are more demanding and vocal about what they want—and that’s something that excites Singapore Airlines (SIA ... new aircraft we’ll have new first-class suites, new business class—and we just enhanced that five years ... ( read original story ...)

VADODARA: ONGC Petro Additions (OPaL) has begun exports to Singapore and intends to float a tender soon for exporting more products to other countries. The first consignment of butadiene was shipped to Singapore, and the company wants to export more ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: Singapore is keeping in place curbs on food imports from Fukushima, which six years ago on Saturday (March 11) was hit by an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) said. This is despite ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE — Poultry and poultry products that Singapore imports from Malaysia are safe for consumption, the authorities here assured the public, following news of a bird flu outbreak in the Malaysian state of Kelantan. Existing measures will be stepped ... ( read original story ...)

Deloitte did not consciously hire athletes but after it became an active member of Sport Singapore's Sports Excellence (Spex) Business Network in May 2014, there has been an influx. Spex Business Network is a programme that encourages companies to hire and ... ( read original story ...)

In 2007, Singapore was ranked 21 on the list, but has slowly climbed up the rankings. Over the past decade, only Switzerland or Norway have topped the survey. According to Euromoney, a monthly business and finance magazine, Norway dropped a spot this year ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Singapore is cutting stamp duties sellers are required to pay on residential properties and easing some rules on borrowing thresholds, as part of a slight relaxation of property curbs imposed since 2009 to rein in the market. Volumes of ... ( read original story ...)

Homeowners looking to avoid paying for seller's stamp duties (SSD) will only have to wait for three years now instead of four as the Ministry of Finance (MOF), Ministry of National Development (MND), and Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore is one of the desirable places for entrepreneurs to start their business and the government is giving a lot of effort to provide entrepreneurs with everything they need, from grants, co-working spaces and a network of international investors. ( read original story ...)