Senior executives from enterprises in Singapore got together to discuss data security, policy, sovereignty and privacy earlier this year. Participants included representatives from the financial, hospitality and telecommunications sectors. Topics of ... ( read original story ...)
How Southeast Asia Female "Millennipreneurs" Are Killin' It In Business
Grace Clapham is one of the leading female entrepreneurs from Singapore who is smashing the glass ceiling with all her achievements. It’s important to be fearless. That is how we create progress within business. Southeast Asia has been more traditional ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s Year of Misbehaving Moneymen Puts MAS on High Alert
The stakes could hardly be higher for a city that relies on finance for 13 percent of its economy and has 200,000 jobs tied to the industry. With exports sliding and the local oil services industries in a slump, Singapore needs to protect the reputation ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore businesses fear worse economic situation in 2017: SBF survey
... climate in Singapore has deteriorated this year, according to companies polled in a new survey, with almost half expecting the coming year to be even worse. This was one of the findings of the latest annual National Business Survey conducted by the ... ( read original story ...)
Businesses find 2016 tough, expect 2017 to be tougher: Survey
... of local businesses felt that Singapore's economic climate has declined in 2016 and nearly half of the companies polled expect the situation to worsen in 2017, according to latest findings from the National Business Survey released on Wednesday (Dec 28). ( read original story ...)
New property launches in 2016: What did well, and why
2016 has been a watershed year for the Singapore property market. Nevertheless, the year saw some major deals and noteworthy new property launches take place. As the year comes to a close, let us reminisce what captured attention in the property scene ... ( read original story ...)
Mobile-first predictions for Asia Pacific in 2017
In markets such as Singapore, smartphones packaged with basic subscription ... Customers buy online for convenience, but travel to physical retail outlets for the brand experience. Mobile is the only media today that can bridge the online shopper in ... ( read original story ...)
UOB Malaysia aims to increase local card base by 13%
UOB has partnered with Singapore Airlines, Expedia and Kaligo for its first-ever region-wide travel campaign. It aims to help customers stretch their vacation ringgit, especially in South-East Asian countries. Lim said currently Malaysian consumers chose ... ( read original story ...)
New Ninja VR Game Succeeds in Making 56 Year Old Feel Like a 'Cool Badass Killing Machine'
SINGAPORE, Dec. 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Mixed Realms, Singapore has announced the early access release of its first game on Steam, 'Sairento VR' - a mission-driven, first-person hybrid shooter and sword fighting VR role-playing game set in a reimagined ... ( read original story ...)
Finance Ministry, Acra propose changes to Companies Act
SINGAPORE - The Ministry of Finance and the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority have proposed law amendments to lessen the regulatory burden on businesses. Changes to the Companies Act and Limited Liability Partnerships Act were proposed on ... ( read original story ...)
Santander and HSBC backed a startup doing for global trade what Google did for advertising
The Spanish bank joins HSBC, American Express, and CreditEase, China’s biggest online lender, in backing the six-year-old company. What do they all see it? “What we do is a fairly new thing,” founder and CEO Christian Lanng told Business Insider in ... ( read original story ...)
Wanted: Feedback on proposed changes to business regulations
The proposed changes to improve business transparency include: (a) require companies (except listed companies and Singapore financial institutions) and LLPs incorporated/ registered in Singapore to maintain registers of beneficial owners (referred to as ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore dollar to weaken further in uncertain 2017: Analysts
SINGAPORE: The Singapore dollar may have recovered some lost ground after hitting multi-year lows against the greenback last week, but this momentum is unlikely to be sustainable when the new year comes around, analysts told Channel NewsAsia. Alongside ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore second most vegan-friendly city in Asia: PETA
SINGAPORE: Food paradise Singapore is the second most vegan-friendly city in Asia after Taipei, animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) announced on Tuesday (Dec 27). Chiang Mai, Thailand and Makati city in the Philippines ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore named second most vegan-friendly city in Asia by Peta
SINGAPORE - The Lion City has earned the No. 2 spot on ... where they're deprived of everything that's natural and important to them," Peta added in its news release. ( read original story ...)
Singapore stocks end up 0.51 percent
Singapore shares closed 0.51 percent higher on Tuesday, but trading was thin as most major markets were closed. Latest data showed China’s industrial sector profit rose 14.5 percent in November from a year earlier, suggesting the economy there was ... ( read original story ...)