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 ...)
UPS raises toast to the world with best wines and beer
This is part of an overall expected import growth of nearly 13 percent for the entire ... New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand. The business to consumer service adds to the already existing business to business shipping service ... ( read original story ...)
Oil at two-month high, ends above $50 a barrel
That helped boost prices prior to settlement due to concern about possible limits on oil imports from Venezuela or exports of ... Ron Bousso and Christopher Johnson in London and Henning Gloystein in Singapore; Editing by Frances Kerry and Lisa Shumaker) ( read original story ...)
Singapore: Three Britons on trial for stag-party gang-rape
Three Britons accused of gang-rape of Malaysian woman at Ultra Singapore music festival in September, 2016. Source: Shutterstock/Thawiwat Sae-Heng THREE British men face 20-years in jail and a caning if found guilty of gang-raping a 23-year-old Malaysian ... ( read original story ...)
Britons on trial for Singapore stag party gang-rape
SINGAPORE: Three British men went on trial in Singapore Tuesday accused of gang-raping a 23-year-old woman while visiting the city-state for a stag party. Khong Tam Thanh, 22, Le Michael, 24, and Vu Thai Son, 24, face up to 20 years in jail and a caning if ... ( read original story ...)