SINGAPORE - More than $1.6 million was raised by United Overseas Bank (UOB) Group Commercial Banking at an annual fundraising dinner on Tuesday night (Feb 12) involving more than 800 business owners f... ( read original story ...)
Brexiters, Stop Fantasizing About Singapore-on-Thames
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Many pro-Brexit Brits are taken with the idea that the U.K. doesn’t need to belong to a large bloc any more than its tiny former colony Singapore does. The Southeast Asian city- ... ( read original story ...)
Brexiters should give up Singapore-on-Thames fantasy: Linda Lim
British colonizers encouraged free flows of capital, goods and labor, which integrated the island into the region’s colonial-plantation export economy. Singapore’s post-independence leader Lee Kuan Ye... ( read original story ...)
More Tourists Visit Singapore, but Spending Growth Slows
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore received a record 18.5 million visitors last year as more tourists arrived in the city-state from its top markets such as China and India, but growth in their ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore most ready in Asia, second globally, to adopt driverless cars: KPMG
Mr Ramamurthy said: "The combination of these factors suggest that Singapore could eventually outpace other countries by 2020 if it continues to focus on technology and innovation to attract autonomou... ( read original story ...)
Anova Financial Networks Subsidiary FE Telecoms Earns Regulatory Approval and Licensing in Japan and Singapore
Anova's Singapore to Tokyo Route Now Live, Offering Best-Known Latency Between Key Financial Hubs For more information about Anova's network in Asia, call 312.540.9594 or email jhilt@anovanetworks.com ... ( read original story ...)
Visitor arrivals to Singapore climb to record high
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - International visitor arrivals to Singapore increased 6.2 percent in 2018 to touch a record of 18.5 million, helped by a higher number of travelers from China, its largest market ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore morning news for February 13
Transport operator SBS Transit posted a 70 per cent surge in earnings to $80.1 million as new government bus contracts bolstered its bottomline. Singapore on Tuesday vowed to go after an American man ... ( read original story ...)
DBS hires Citibank Singapore CEO to head group strategy
Mr Han had spent 27 years with the US bank, leading businesses in consumer banking, corporate banking and transaction banking. SEE ALSO: Singapore banks likely to post record earnings for full year 20... ( read original story ...)
UOB launches ‘high street’ branch to target half a million emerging affluent customers in Singapore
United Overseas Bank (UOB) has launched its first high street wealth banking branch in Singapore tailored for the country’s ‘emerging affluent customers’. Located at Faber House in Orchard Road, the l... ( read original story ...)
Rugby: HSBC Singapore 7s rated Asia’s best and second out of 10 legs of the World Rugby Seven Series
SINGAPORE - The HSBC Singapore Rugby Sevens was ranked second out of 10 legs of the World Rugby Sevens series, and Asia's best last season, according to World Rugby's tournament evaluation. With a sco... ( read original story ...)
The Incredible Shrinking Singapore Stock Market
Robson Lee had a decision to make. In his more than two-decade career as a capital-markets lawyer in Singapore, he’d helped more than 30 companies list on the country’s stock exchange, bringing to mar... ( read original story ...)
Philippines prepares food export to Singapore
AN on-site inspection of vegetable, fruit, hog, poultry and egg farms all over the country has started in preparation for their exportation to Singapore. Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said two ... ( read original story ...)
Southeast Asia eclipses China as world’s mobile economy hot spot
SINGAPORE -- Southeast Asians are outpacing the Chinese in embracing the mobile economy, with higher percentages of the population in several countries using smartphones to do their banking ... ( read original story ...)
U.S. citizen who leaked Singapore HIV-cases may have more “files”
SINGAPORE, Feb 12 (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen who leaked the names of more than 14,000 HIV-positive individuals in Singapore may be in possession of more "files" from the database, the city-state's hea... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s stock market is shrinking, but does it matter?
(Feb 12): Robson Lee had a decision to make. In his more than two-decade career as a capital-markets lawyer in Singapore, he’d helped more than 30 companies list on the country’s stock exchange, bring... ( read original story ...)