Export-dependent Singapore has a strong warning for the rest of the world: The damage from a prolonged trade war will be severe. While Southeast Asia has found some benefits from the deepening trade h... ( read original story ...)
Advocacy Group Raises Questions About Cambodia’s Gold Imports
It is also $12 billion more than the value of all of Cambodia's other imports from Singapore during the same period, said the monitor group based on publicly available records from the Ministry of Com... ( read original story ...)
Singapore to charge British suspect 13 years after bogus terror threat
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A British man faces up to a year in jail in Singapore for an email he is accused of sending to the government of the wealthy city-state in 2005, delivering a false warning of a t... ( read original story ...)
South American exports help shipping industry offset trade war fallout
SINGAPORE -- Exports from South America are helping the shipping industry to fend off the effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the chief of shipping information provider Baltic Exchange said in an ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore consumers harbour distrust of e-payment: study
Just half of Singapore consumers believe e-wallets and payment apps are adequately secure and 65 percent say likewise for mobile banking apps, which are the lowest amongst six Asian markets. In compar... ( read original story ...)
Singapore: Elderly woman fined $7,000 for smuggling 490 duck eggs from Vietnam
A 63-year-old woman was caught red-handed while importing 490 duck eggs illegally that contained developing embryos into Singapore. As a penalty for the offence, on Wednesday, October 3 she was fined ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Inc. Flexes Its M&A Muscle With Major Overseas Push
injection to help Bayer AG finance its planned takeover of U.S. competitor Monsanto Co. GIC was also involved in Blackstone Group LP’s acquisition of a majority stake in Thomson Reuters Corp.’s financ... ( read original story ...)
Losing Streak Expected To Continue For Singapore Shares
The Singapore stock market has finished lower in consecutive trading days, sliding almost 20 points or 0.6 percent along the way. The Straits Times Index now rests just above the 3,240-point plateau a... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Companies Are on a Global Acquisition Spree
Singapore Inc. is stirring, with companies from real estate to engineering becoming bolder in their hunt for acquisitions abroad. Companies in the city-state announced around $91 billion of overseas d... ( read original story ...)
Woman fined $7,000 for smuggling 490 balut eggs into Singapore
The import of food, including meat and eggs, and their products, are regulated for animal health and food safety reasons. Meat and eggs, and their products, can only be imported from accredited source... ( read original story ...)
OCBC rolls out real-time account opening for SMEs
Singapore's OCBC Bank is extending its instant account opening service to small traders, mining the Government's national data repository MyInfo to offer on-the-spot account numbers and payment approv... ( read original story ...)
Singapore property prices rise despite additional government curbs
Singapore private home prices are still inching higher – albeit at the slowest pace in five quarters – even after the government imposed additional property curbs to avoid the risk of a sharp correcti... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Enjoys Strong Property Price Appreciation in 2018
According to Singapore-based Edmund Tie & Company, private residential property prices in Singapore continued to increase in Q2 2018, with the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) private residential p... ( read original story ...)
Sell vs rent out your property: How to make the right decision
Singapore private properties are one cooling measure away from becoming penguin sanctuaries. The government really wants to lower or freeze prices, which raises a conundrum: Will your property asset p... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Home Prices Rise Even After Additional Property Curbs
Singapore private home prices are still inching higher — albeit at the slowest pace in five quarters — even after the government imposed additional property curbs to avoid the risk of a sharp correcti... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s Ohmyhome ends Series A Funding round led by GEC
making them simpler and efficient for home seekers and sellers – the market average selling time for property in Singapore is 120 days. At Ohmyhome, the fastest selling time is in one day and an avera... ( read original story ...)