Returning to private practice after leading global legal teams at Standard Chartered, Ms Chia and Mr Sandstad bring ... and she is qualified in Singapore. Mr Sandstad said of the move: 'The firm, with its strength in Asia, Europe, North America and South ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore unemployment rate, retrenchments ease in Q2
SINGAPORE: The joblessness amongst Singapore residents and citizens has eased in the past quarter if the latest figures from the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) are anything to go by. According to the Labour Market Advance Release for the second quarter of the ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s central bank says may regulate offer or issue of digital tokens
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's central bank said on Tuesday it will regulate issuance by companies of digital tokens called "initial coin offerings" if it judges them to be securities under the city-state's law. Globally, new technology companies have ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore central bank clarifies regulatory position on digital tokens
The Monetary Authority of Singapore has cleared up its position on the regulation of digital tokens. The central bank noted that it will regulate the offer or issue of digital tokens in Singapore if they constitute products regulated under the Securities ... ( read original story ...)
Doha Bank to open Singapore branch
Doha Bank, one of Qatar's top banks, is expanding its operations overseas with plans to open a fully fledged banking operation in Singapore. Sheikh Abdul Rehman bin Mohammad bin Jabor Al Thani, managing director of Doha Bank, said the bank intends to enter ... ( read original story ...)
How to Analyze a Bank’s Profitability
The Foolish Bottom Line Bank stocks in Singapore have been on a roll in recent months. There are a mulitutude of factors that could have caused this. Tailwinds include the proposal of the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Economic Community ... ( read original story ...)
I moved from Sydney to Singapore for a top banking job. Here’s why I don’t want to leave
I shifted to Singapore in 2009 to take a senior job in banking. This is why I’m still enjoying working there. http://news.efinancialcareers.com/sg-en/276789/td-securities-hiring-singapore-sc/ In 2009 senior economist Annette Beacher moved with her ... ( read original story ...)
City Harvest case: Court reserves judgment on interpretation of criminal breach of trust as agents
SINGAPORE - The Court of Appeal on Tuesday (Aug 1 ... Section 409 makes it an offence for a person who misappropriates property that is entrusted to him "in the way of his business as a banker, a merchant, a factor, a broker, an attorney or an agent". ( read original story ...)
Parliament mulls curbs on property management committees to rein in ugly spats
SINGAPORE — Amid nagging complaints of abuse of power by ... condominium The Sail @ Marina Bay convened an extraordinary general meeting to remove three property agents who had elected themselves as council members and allegedly misused their powers ... ( read original story ...)
Chevron House in Raffles Place up for sale
This was in spite of a note of caution sounded by Mr Augustine Tan, president of the Real Estate Developers’ Association of Singapore (Redas) at a property seminar earlier in the month, when he said it was still “too soon” to assume that the property ... ( read original story ...)
Australian Government ‘dumped so much f***ing money’ on Singaporean PR company who made $277,000 profit for three days’ work to stop asylum seekers sailing to Australia
A PR company in Singapore has been paid more than $16 million by the Australian ... Since we are being honest about biases, mine are... 1 - customs has dumped so much f***ing money on us in the last few months that I feel it is the most likely time we ... ( read original ...
Singapore-JB MRT to start by end-2024
Similar to the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail line, the RTS Link will have a joint customs, immigration and quarantine facility at both terminus stations. This means that international-bound travellers will need to clear customs and immigration ... ( read original story ...)
China wants this Malaysian port to rival Singapore (and that’s not all)
SINGAPORE/KUALA LUMPUR — The Straits of Malacca have been ... asked not to be identified given the sensitivity of the discussions. China has committed to import goods worth US$2 trillion from Malaysia over the next five years (a nearly eight-fold jump ... ( read original story ...)
UPS Announced It Will Ship More Beer and Wine
UPS is sending these products to 24 of the 35 top wine importing countries, as well as distilleries ... New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. In some cases, UPS packages will arrive to the consumer’s home within three ... ( read original story ...)
Revealed: how Australia ‘dumped so much fucking money’ on asylum-seeker ad campaign
Photograph: Customs/AAP The Australian government “dumped so much ... the Guardian can reveal. The Singapore-based company Statt Consulting has been paid at least $15m by Australian taxpayers to target advertising inside Afghanistan and Pakistan, aimed ... ( read original story ...)
Product Tanker Supply Side Update – July 2017
Naphtha may then be loaded at Singapore destined for the Japanese market ... and Japan caused refining capacity to shrink significantly leading to greater imports. Let's take a quick look at a couple charts that tell how these trends impacted trade ... ( read original story ...)