Oyo Hotels & Homes has a competitor in Accor Hotels, which has just inked a deal to franchise 15 budget hotels in Singapore-branded Fragrance Hotel. Even before there was an Oyo or the other budget ... ( read original story ...)
Perennial 2Q earnings down 75% to $2.2 mil on higher finance costs
SINGAPORE (Aug 7): Perennial Real Estate Holdings reported revenue for 2Q19 ended June surged 52.4% to $27.6 million from $18.1 million. However earnings fell 74.9% to $2.2 million from $8.6 million ... ( read original story ...)
46 countries sign UN treaty named after Singapore
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat added last night: "The signing of the Convention is a clear signal of our commitment to a rules-based international order." Singapore was the ... ( read original story ...)
NSE & Singapore Exchange Get Approvals To Launch Joint Products At GIFT
India's National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Singapore Exchange (SGX) got a set of approvals from statutory regulators for their proposal to launch products jointly at the Gujarat International Finance ... ( read original story ...)
NSE, SGX Get Regulatory Approval To Trade Through Gujarat Finance Hub
The National Stock Exchange and its Singapore counterpart received regulatory approvals for a trading link through the international finance hub in Gujarat to help overseas investors hedge risks in ... ( read original story ...)
OCBC invests RM60 mil in YYC Group
(Aug 8): Singapore-based OCBC, via OCBC Bank (Malaysia) and Lion-OCBC Capital Asia Fund I (LOCAF I), has invested about RM60 million ($19.7 million) in YYC Holdings Sdn Bhd (YYC Group), a homegrown ... ( read original story ...)
GirlGamer 2019 Esports Festival World Tour Singapore Qualifier Concludes
SINGAPORE, Aug. 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on the success of the first stop in Sydney, Australia, GirlGamer World Tour kicked off its Asian Qualifier in Singapore on 3rd August 2019. Organized by ... ( read original story ...)
Take A Little Trip Around Singapore Town
Since flights are crazy expensive, you’re likely stuck in Singapore this weekend. If you’re out of ideas on what to do over the long break, why not take cue from one of Singapore’s popular national ... ( read original story ...)
Standard Chartered Complete Blockchain Trial with Thailand’s Oil Giant Using Voltron
This pilot involved the shipment of an oil product from Thailand to Singapore. Standard Chartered was able to digitise and simplify the end to end exchange of information between all parties in the ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Airlines SilverKris Lounge Review | Changi Airport, Singapore
Ironically, as I was boarding my flight to Singapore from Male I passed a Turkish Air ad specifically for its business class lounge. “Our lounge is bigger than some airports” Truth. This thought ... ( read original story ...)
Underserved remittance service in Singapore gets boost from pilot using blockchain-enabled tokenised currency
(Aug 5): In June, the Monetary Authority Singapore announced that it would be issuing two full digital bank licences and three digital wholesale bank licences to players of non-bank parentage. But ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore ranks 32 out of 40 for work-life balance, second most overworked city
SINGAPORE: Singapore was among the bottom 10 for work-life balance and ranked the second most overworked city in a study of 40 cities released on Wednesday (Aug 7). The study by tech company Kisi ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore and India Share a Peace Pipe
But if the Singapore contract stays alive ... He has also worked for the Straits Times, ET NOW and Bloomberg News. ... ( read original story ...)
Countries will be ‘fairly quick’ to ratify Singapore Convention on Mediation, says Shanmugam
SINGAPORE: Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam on Wednesday (Aug 7) said that he expects that the Singapore Convention on Mediation will come into force "relatively fast" for an international ... ( read original story ...)
More than 9 in 10 in Singapore concerned by climate change; most agree to use of taxes to fight impact: Mediacorp survey
SINGAPORE: More than 9 in 10 Singaporeans and Permanent Residents (PR) said they are concerned by climate change and will do their part to minimise its impact, findings from a Mediacorp survey showed ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Convention on Mediation ‘crucial’ as rules-based international order faces pressure: DPM Heng
It also shows Singapore’s efforts to better serve the needs of companies in the region when they have differences in their business dealings. Mr Heng noted that businesses traditionally rely on ... ( read original story ...)