aims to apply for oil product export quotas in April 2018 once it completes its administrative registration next month, Zhang Liucheng, vice president of Dongming Petrochemical, said at S&P Global Platts APPEC conference in Singapore Wednesday. With the ... ( read original story ...)
Smartphone effect casts a shadow over Asia’s bumper export year
that the other key driver of Asian exports – China – is showing signs of resuming its economic slowdown,” said Rob Subbaraman, chief economist for Asia ex-Japan at Nomura Holdings Inc in Singapore. The smartphone cycle and firmer Chinese growth were ... ( read original story ...)
This Teenager Was Jailed For Being Critical of Singapore. The U.S. Just Upheld His Bid for Asylum
(CHICAGO) — A teenage blogger from Singapore was released from U.S. custody on Tuesday ... Yee emerged Tuesday afternoon from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in downtown Chicago. “I’m kind of stunned right now,” he said. ( read original story ...)
U.S. Grants Asylum To Amos Yee, Young Blogger From Singapore
and Yee was then held in detention centers run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals recently dismissed the federal agency's appeal, agreeing with immigration Judge Samuel Cole that Singapore's criminal charges ... ( read original story ...)
US frees ‘persecuted’ Singapore blogger Amos Yee, upholding asylum claim
Amos Yee, the controversial teenage blogger from Singapore, was released from US custody on Tuesday ... Yee emerged Tuesday afternoon from a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in downtown Chicago. “I’m kind of stunned right now,” he ... ( read original story ...)
Eni says to expand Singapore LNG desk to market Mozambique supplies
SINGAPORE (REUTERS) - Eni plans to expand its Singapore trading ... Eni said in May it had clinched a 15-year deal to supply 11 million tonnes a year of LNG to state-run import Pakistan LNG. Eni is the largest international oil company in Africa, producing ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore blogger tastes US freedom
A teenage blogger from Singapore was released from US custody on Tuesday following ... Carrying a clear plastic bag stuffed with his belongings, below, Yee emerged from a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in downtown Chicago. ( read original story ...)
Singapore investor to build Ha Tinh port
Phoenix Vung Ang Viet Nam Company Limited, a subsidiary of Singapore’s Freight Links Capital Pte Ltd ... transport under the multimodal transport system; increase export and import of goods in the provinces of Nghe An, Ha Tinh and Quang Binh; attract ... ( read original story ...)
North Korea banks under U.S. sanctions have partners in China, Singapore
Cheil Credit Bank has been in business for 50 years in partnership with entities in Singapore, and was used as a source of ... China began buying banned coal from North Korea in August, importing about $138 million worth of the fuel source. ( read original story ...)
Singapore among world’s top 5 destinations: Survey
With a record 13.11 million international visitors last year, representing 8.8 per cent growth, Singapore remains a top global destination for both leisure and business, the credit card giant’s report said. “Singapore’s diverse world-class offerings ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Records Promising Growth in Business Formations
2Q 2017 sees continued interest by foreign investors from China, Malaysia, Indonesia, India & Australia SINGAPORE, Sept. 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Investors and entrepreneurs from Malaysia, India, Australia, Indonesia and China continue to invest in ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore has world’s 3rd most competitive economy
The World Economic Forum, the same organisation that runs the Davos meeting of global powerbrokers each January, bases its rankings on a dozen drivers of competitiveness and a survey of business leaders ... States climbed over Singapore into second ... ( read original story ...)
Cryptocurrency firms face crackdown in Singapore
The Monetary Authority of Singapore, the country’s central bank, said in a statement that it doesn’t interfere with commercial decisions taken by banks “including those in relation to the establishment and termination of business relationships.” ( read original story ...)
U.S. crude exports to Asia may shake up global oil pricing: Russell
SINGAPORE, Sept 26 (Reuters ... but perhaps the rapid pace of the shift has caught some in the market off-guard. Crude oil exports to Asia from the United States are still relatively small-scale, with Thomson Reuters Oil Research and Forecasts estimating ... ( read original story ...)
RPT-COLUMN-U.S. crude exports to Asia may shake up global oil pricing: Russell
SINGAPORE, Sept 26 (Reuters ... but perhaps the rapid pace of the shift has caught some in the market off-guard. Crude oil exports to Asia from the United States are still relatively small-scale, with Thomson Reuters Oil Research and Forecasts estimating ... ( read original story ...)
Brazil’s beef exports to return near to record, as scandal blows over
“South Africa, Iraq, Iran, Malaysia, Myanmar and Singapore not only resumed beef imports from Brazil, but mutual negotiations between these countries and the Brazilian government are centred in the eligibility of new Brazilian plants for exports,” the ... ( read original story ...)