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Tiger Airways named Singapore's biggest low cost carrier

2nd Biggest Airline in Singapore feat achieved with only 10 narrow-bodied aircraft.

Tiger Airways named Singapore's biggest low cost carrier

2nd Biggest Airline in Singapore feat achieved with only 10 narrow-bodied aircraft.

Foreign equity investment in Singapore in 2008 up 0.6%

Country’s FDI rose 1% but it saw lower returns of 14.3% in 2008.

Changi passenger movements up 16.5% to 9.94mln

Full service carriers accounted for over 50% of the reported growth for the period of January - March 2010.

CapitaLand beefs up business development with new subsidiary

Ascott Holdings (Europe) Pte Ltd, CapitaLand's latest indirect wholly-owned subsidiary has issued and paid-up share capital of S$1 comprising 1 ordinary share.

URA takes over the secretariat function for the Street and Building Names Board

SBNB role will give URA power to further extend the urban heritage of nation's landmarks.

DBS to invest $150mln in a Myo Capital fund

Lender eyes minority stake on fund to benefit from distressed debt, bonds, leveraged debt in Asia-Pacific.

OpenNet goes into commercial operation

Nation's optical fibre network company set to offer ultra high speed Next Gen NBN.

ST Electronics subscribes to US$700,000 capital call

Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd's electronics arm subscribed to the capital call in proportion to its 50% shareholding in GFM Electronics.

Tiger Airways adds Trivandrum to its destinations

In addition to recently announced flights to Tiruchirappalli, Tiger Airways will start flying to Trivandrum, India come November this year.

Singapore tourist arrival grew 17.3% to record-high 928,000

Improving economic conditions prompted to improved travel sentiment to the country.

SingTel wins its second Seatrade Asia Innovation Award

Company delighted to receive award to its efforts in rejuvenating the maritime industry through innovation.

Singapore Tourism Board joins Asia Cruise Association

STB committed to work with the ACA to help drive development of Asian cruise industry.

Astoria Consulting joins SIMTech to introduce shipping technology

“AstorPlan” is aimed to optimise resources planning and deployment resulting to productivity boost for marine industry.

Singapore's Q4 2009 redundancy figures fall to pre-recession levels

Resilience package, concerted efforts by different sectors saved jobs though re-employment still lower than in 2008.

Global Yellow Pages enters into licensing agreement with SPH Search

Both parties keen on extending enhanced online local directory service after 30 June agreement expiration.

Sembcorp eyes acquisition of Cascal shares

Acquisition of 17,868,543 shares seen as a major milestone for Sembcorp in the fast-growing water sector.

Banyan Tree Private Collection partners with Habitat for Humanity

Tie-up aims to build homes and hope in China and the Philippines.