SINGAPORE - Mainboard-listed Frasers Property said that its Frasers Hospitality business has opened Fraser Place Binhai Tianjin - its second property in Tianjin - on Tuesday (June 12), as the property developer looks to double its footprint in China over ... ( read original story ...)
Pullman To Open First Hotel in Singapore
AccorHotels and EL Development Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based property developer, have announced they will open a new-build five-star Pullman on a prime site on Hill St, in the civic and cultural heart of the city. The 342-room hotel will be Singapore’s ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Deputy PM Says Progress on Global Trade May Unravel
Global trade faces greater uncertainty and there’s a risk progress that’s been made on commerce may unravel because of dispute between China and the U.S., Singapore Deputy Prime ... over accusations of intellectual property theft. ( read original story ...)
Pullman to make Singapore debut in 2022
The first Pullman-branded hotel in Singapore is slated to open on Hill Street in 2022, the outcome of a partnership between Accorhotels and property developer EL Development, which through this deal makes its first foray into hotels. Pullman Singapore will ... ( read original story ...)
Wolters Kluwer Survey Shows Singapore’s Bankers Concerned Over MAS 610
The survey asked more than 50 compliance, risk, finance and IT professionals at more than 25 banks in Singapore for their views on key challenges they face. The scope of new proposals in the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s overhaul of the MAS 610 ... ( read original story ...)
FWD Insurance partners DBS to launch e-claims payments via PayNow
PayNow is an electronic fund transfer service available to customers of any of the seven participating banks: Citibank Singapore, DBS/POSB, HSBC, Maybank, OCBC, Standard Chartered Bank, and United Overseas Bank. To receive payments via PayNow, FWD ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore IPOs lag Asian peers as homegrown companies rush to list abroad
Cross-border listings ballooned 300% in value compared to domestic flotations which surged 64%. With a growing number of Singapore companies choosing to list abroad, the number of cross-border listings ballooned 300% in terms of volume and 166% in terms of ... ( read original story ...)
Market Reaction Muted After Singapore Summit
The Singapore summit with US President Donald Trump and North ... The jobs report further highlighted the difficulties facing the Bank of England which is clearly keen to start raising interest rates and normalising monetary policy. Unemployment remains ... ( read original story ...)
‘Where is Singapore?’: Trump-Kim summit a PR coup for tiny city-state
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - As images of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un strolling by revelers at a rooftop bar the night before an unprecedented meeting with President Donald Trump circulated around social media sites, U.S. citizens started asking 'Where is ... ( read original story ...)
‘Nirav Modi flees to Brussels, believed to be travelling on Singapore passport’
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 ...)
Asian stocks rise with eyes on Singapore summit
Just don't ask what comprises a 'deal' and we are fine. At the risk of sounding a tad frivolous, that appears to be the truth of the matter,” said Vishnu Varathan of Mizuho Bank in Singapore of the Trump-Kim summit. ENERGY: Benchmark U.S. crude rose 3 ... ( read original story ...)
Bank stocks dipped from all-time high amidst May-June lull
Singapore bank stocks have declined to 7% YTD ever since they gained 9% during their all-time high this year. OCBC Investment Research analyst Carmen Lee noted that at this year's high, DBS was up 23%, OCBC was up 13%, and UOB was up 13%, which brought the ... ( read original story ...)
Ivanka Trump tweeted a ‘Chinese Proverb’ at Trump’s critics before the Singapore summit — but it looks like it’s not Chinese at all
Donald Trump's daughter posted a quote from what she said was a Chinese proverb on Monday. It said: "Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it." Ivanka's post appeared to be a jab at her father's critics as he prepared to meet ... ( read original story ...)
Two fined in separate cases of possession of illegal wildlife, illegal import of bird
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 ...)
Trump-Kim summit: Deciphering what happened in Singapore
These are external links and will open in a new window Donald Trump arrived in Singapore promising to make history. That he did by shaking Kim Jong-un's hand for the world's cameras - becoming the first sitting US leader to meet his North Korean counterpart. ( read original story ...)
North Korea Says It Won Major Concessions From Trump in Singapore
SEOUL, South Korea — A day after its leader’s historic talks with President Trump, North Korea wasted no time on Wednesday spinning the results in its favor, claiming it had won major concessions from the United States. The authoritarian country’s ... ( read original story ...)