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Nigerian oil export plans are prone to revisions and delays, with cargoes frequently pushed from one month to the next. Meanwhile, oil prices rose alongside global markets on Tuesday as U.S. President Donald Trump said a summit in Singapore with North ... ( read original story ...)

Export-led development strategies have been the dominant paradigm for economic growth throughout East and Southeast Asia. Only North Korea is today running a relatively closed economy. If Pyongyang can adopt an opening-up policy following the Singapore ... ( read original story ...)

Export-led development strategies have been the dominant paradigm for economic growth throughout East and Southeast Asia. Only North Korea is today running a relatively closed economy. If Pyongyang can adopt an opening-up policy following the Singapore ... ( read original story ...)

The diamond merchant, wanted in India's biggest-ever banking scam, is said to be travelling in and out of the UK freely, possibly on a Singapore passport, not an Indian one. On Monday, the CBI had requested Interpol for a red corner notice + against Nirav ... ( read original story ...)

The seized animals were placed under the care of Wildlife Reserves Singapore. In a separate incident, a 23-year-old man was fined $5,000 for illegally importing a live bird into Singapore. Lim Ke Yi had hidden the white-rumped shama in a potato chip tube ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Asia’s toluene market direction in the ... marked the end of three weeks’ worth of stable-to-firm price trend. This followed weaker import demand from China for July, which mainly stemmed from the ending of traders replenishing ... ( read original story ...)

Trump has repeatedly raked up the issue of India imposing high import duty on the iconic Harley-Davidson motorcycles ... if we have to do it,” Trump warned before leaving Canada for Singapore where he is scheduled to hold a much publicised summit with ... ( read original story ...)

Trade between the two states has nosedived in the last five years with Kenya’s annual imports falling from Sh19.4 billion in 2013 to Sh5.8 billion last year and exports dropping from Sh1.8 billion to Sh375 million. Kenya and Singapore have signed pacts ... ( read original story ...)

This chart from OCBC Treasury Research showed that Singapore’s manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) in May was pulled down six out of eight indicators, led by a lower output (-0.4) and imports (-0.4). Overall, PMI declined 0.2 points but still ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore may be ranked the most expensive city to live in by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), but a different ranking shows that this is hardly the case after accounting for personal income tax rates. Instead, Singapore comes in 11th in the latest ... ( read original story ...)

Sources said that the government will henceforth allow the import of vehicles, which are certified by internationally-accepted test agencies such as those in Europe, Singapore and some other countries. Current norms fixed by the Directorate General of ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore is known for food safety thanks to AVA. It’s achieved a good reputation even though Singapore must import over 90 percent of the food it consumes because the city-state has little farmland of its own and limited fishing grounds. The city ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore is such a country whose market economy is greatly developed. It is traditionally based on prolonged entrepôt trade. The country is considered to be one of the unique Four Asian Tigers. The economy of Singapore is also known as the most ... ( read original story ...)

said he was looking forward to a day when he would be able to do business in North Korea, which he has visited three times. “We’re excited that [Kim] chose Singapore,” he said. “A peace agreement is possible with [his] wise leadership.” ( read original story ...)

Singapore police said Friday they arrested two South Korean journalists while investigating a report of trespassing in the residence of the North Korean ambassador. The statement posted on the police Facebook page said the two men represented the Korean ... ( read original story ...)

There is softer import demand from China. Singapore's GDP growth is expected to slow down from 3.6% in 2017 to 3% in 2018 as export growth moderates from 2017's strong acceleration, The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) said. ( read original story ...)