... its export capacity as the company hope to ensure that 25 to 30 percent of its locally produced goods go for export. Koh Poh Koon, Singapore Minister of State for Trade and Industry, who led Singaporean trade delegation to Lagos Free Trade Zone ... ( read original story ...)
China’s investment in Malaysia may come with a long-term political cost
China has been Malaysia’s largest trading partner since 2009, displacing Singapore, with two-way trade last year valued at US$83.4 billion. China is Malaysia’s biggest export market. Malaysia, like Singapore, has strong historical links to China. ( read original story ...)
Arclight Launches China Co-Production Initiative
Arclight and its affiliate companies have co-financed or sold several of the biggest Chinese film exports of recent years. The company previously handled Kimble Rendall’s Chinese-Australian-Singapore co-venture “Bait 3D,” and is now in post-productio ... ( read original story ...)
The Gluten in Wheat’s Rise
The most exciting corner of the world's commodity markets over the past few months hasn't been in London, New York, Chicago, Singapore or Shanghai ... according to U.S. Wheat Associates, an export-promotion group. That's a problem for bakers. ( read original story ...)
Positive Data Raises Asia, Europe Stocks
Equity indexes from Shanghai to Seoul chalked up gains, with confidence fuelled by positive Chinese manufacturing data and figures showing South Korean exports surged 20% in ... just 10 days after being hired. Singapore shares rose, as a recovery in ... ( read original story ...)
India Refiners Outshine Asia Peers With New Output, Rising Local Demand
SINGAPORE/NEW DELHI, Aug 1 (Reuters ... in China and Vietnam that could keep most of Asia well-supplied and weigh on refining margins for export-oriented refiners in South Korea and Thailand. India, though, where refiners have already ramped up capacity ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore unemployment rate, retrenchments ease in Q2
SINGAPORE: The joblessness amongst Singapore residents and citizens has eased in the past quarter if the latest figures from the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) are anything to go by. According to the Labour Market Advance Release for the second quarter of the ... ( read original story ...)
Australian Government ‘dumped so much f***ing money’ on Singaporean PR company who made $277,000 profit for three days’ work to stop asylum seekers sailing to Australia
A PR company in Singapore has been paid more than $16 million by the Australian ... Since we are being honest about biases, mine are... 1 - customs has dumped so much f***ing money on us in the last few months that I feel it is the most likely time we ... ( read original ...
Singapore-JB MRT to start by end-2024
Similar to the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail line, the RTS Link will have a joint customs, immigration and quarantine facility at both terminus stations. This means that international-bound travellers will need to clear customs and immigration ... ( read original story ...)
China wants this Malaysian port to rival Singapore (and that’s not all)
SINGAPORE/KUALA LUMPUR — The Straits of Malacca have been ... asked not to be identified given the sensitivity of the discussions. China has committed to import goods worth US$2 trillion from Malaysia over the next five years (a nearly eight-fold jump ... ( read original story ...)
UPS Announced It Will Ship More Beer and Wine
UPS is sending these products to 24 of the 35 top wine importing countries, as well as distilleries ... New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. In some cases, UPS packages will arrive to the consumer’s home within three ... ( read original story ...)
Revealed: how Australia ‘dumped so much fucking money’ on asylum-seeker ad campaign
Photograph: Customs/AAP The Australian government “dumped so much ... the Guardian can reveal. The Singapore-based company Statt Consulting has been paid at least $15m by Australian taxpayers to target advertising inside Afghanistan and Pakistan, aimed ... ( read original story ...)
Product Tanker Supply Side Update – July 2017
Naphtha may then be loaded at Singapore destined for the Japanese market ... and Japan caused refining capacity to shrink significantly leading to greater imports. Let's take a quick look at a couple charts that tell how these trends impacted trade ... ( read original story ...)
UPS raises toast to the world with best wines and beer
This is part of an overall expected import growth of nearly 13 percent for the entire ... New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand. The business to consumer service adds to the already existing business to business shipping service ... ( read original story ...)
Oil at two-month high, ends above $50 a barrel
That helped boost prices prior to settlement due to concern about possible limits on oil imports from Venezuela or exports of ... Ron Bousso and Christopher Johnson in London and Henning Gloystein in Singapore; Editing by Frances Kerry and Lisa Shumaker) ( read original story ...)
Singapore-based aesthetics group eyes S$204m with Taiwan listing
SINGAPORE — Two former investment banker cousins — Terence Loh, 40 and Nelson Loh, 38 —started a business in the aesthetic healthcare industry without prior knowledge because they saw it as a “recession-proof” sector that has been around for ... ( read original story ...)