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Singapore's top 25 largest hotels 2013 |
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Hotels face tight competition with around 2,500 new rooms coming onstream this 2013. Read ›› |
Singapore's top 25 law firms 2012 |
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Five local law firms have topped Singapore Business Review’s inaugural top 25 law firm rankings for 2012 despite the government awarding licenses to 6 foreign law firms this year. Read ›› |
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Singapore's top 25 accounting firms 2012 |
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As Singapore seeks to become world’s leading financial and business hub, the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) has deemed it timely to review the 8-year old Accountants Act to ensure that it stays relevant. Read ›› |
Singapore’s great steak race |
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Singapore Business Review brings you the latest and hottest destinations to satisfy your cravings - BJ’s American Diner and Grill , Wooloomooloo Steakhouse, and Zafferano Bar & Lounge. Read ›› |
The Island of the Calm |
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Our contributor visits Palma Mallorca and discovers why it’s a hit destination with royalty, celebrities (and writers) “There are few places on this earth where one could find such complete repose, when tired out by this busy world,” wrote painter-writer Santiago Rusinol, referring to Palma Mallorca (also known as Majorca) in his book “The Island of the Calm”. Read ›› |
Hong Kong’s US$11bn private equity problem |
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The money has been raised, but competing with larger Chinese domestic funds is challenging as Isabelle Ulanday reports. Private equity funds in Asia are overtaking those in the west in terms of growth, but challenges remain, especially in China where a string of accounting scandals has many foreigners wary of investing. Read ›› |
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Super Roadster |
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Throughout its production history, the SLK has been wowing the market with radical innovations. Read ›› |
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Ceaseless Education |
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Tiger’s roar in Singapore |
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Kuala lumpur – one of the hottest tourist destinations in the world, ranked top 5 by Euromonitor International as a top city destination in 2009. Singapore likewise received the same acclamation seizing top 4 of the said list. Join the flaming cultural mixture from Asia’s Tiger country with that of Singapore’s open economy and we have a mishmash of business opportunities uniquely found in Malaysia-Singapore. Read ›› |
In Business and in Health |
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Singapore healthcare at its best. Deloitte Southeast Asia Diseases and Cure for Asia’s Healthcare Industry - Despite the global downturn, the demand for more and better health care is rising sharply across Southeast Asia for the past decade, along with the region’s rapidly growing economies. Read ›› |
Moving Bits and Liquid Advertising's creativity bring ideas to life |
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Two different types of creativity make lightbulbs dance in different colors. Read ›› |
Cycling – The New Golf |
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0CBC Cycle Singapore – a fully integrated lifestyle experience Read ›› |
Learn how Catapult, React, and Moove Media get their message across |
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With bits and pieces of media messages bombarding us every day, all with different purposes and under various platforms, there is no doubt not every single parcel of them actually achieve what they were set out to do. Read ›› |
Consumers resume credit bingeing |
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Singaporean consumers who survived the great recession have resumed binging on credit for that much needed iPhone or holiday overseas, according to latest figures released by the banks which show consumer loans will likely grow 13.3 % over 2010, ushering in a golden time for banks. Read ›› |
$1000 psf the “new normal” for condos |
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It was good while it lasted, but the second wind to Singapore’s residential property market seems to be blowing a lot softer coming into May than it did in the first part of the year. Read ›› |
Barang Barang goes bust |
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After filing for voluntary liquidation in February, famed furniture maker Barang Barang announced its Managing Director Lim Kok Hui had resigned “for new prospects” as facebook customer groups go nuts. Read ›› |
Hyflux ventures to the Dark Continent |
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Hyflux, one of the world’s leading technology-driven environmental companies, has just signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) for two seawater desalination plants in Libya and could potentially enlarge EPC order book by S$1billion and extend earnings visibility to 2013. Read ›› |
Money: It’s not funny |
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Resorts World could hold the aces |
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Out of the two integrated resorts that may be opening at the end of the year, Genting Singapore’s Resort World may have the upper hand over Marina Bay Sands when i t comes to packing in the local punters. And the secret to what may be the key to Resorts World getting the upper hand could just be the Universal Studios movie theme park. Read ›› |
iPhone could ring up profits for M1 |
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Keppel Land’s head honcho Kevin Wong has a good reason to smile. Read ›› |
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Black, white but no red ink |
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The black ink continued to flow over at SPH, albeit not as quickly as last year as the downturn in advertising bit into revenues. Read ›› |
Down and out in the CBD |
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It is a long way down from the top of the office buildings that ring Raffles Place, and so it has been for the rents their landlords command. Read ›› |
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Why ban the financial institutions now? |
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CBD rents under pressure |
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Will SingTel’s soccer grab crush Starhub? |
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Singtel may have won the screening rights for the English Premier League soccer, but will it be worth the price? Read ›› |
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Will Keppel samba its way to the bank? |
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Property’s double act |
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The great financial recession may have knocked the economy for six, but the residential property market has seemingly defied all logic and staged a dramatic comeback. Read ›› |
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Shipping firms feel seasick |
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With Singapore’s economy recovering one would have thought that its shipping companies would have been sailing into calmer waters. Not so, as the results of shipping companies has shown that the perfect storm in shipping rates and volumes continues to batter results. Read ›› |
No more Mr. Kiasu |
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In the popular imagination, the average Singaporean is a cigarette smoking, white singlet-wearing, 45 year old ‘uncle’ who wears flip flops and drinks Tiger with his ‘kakis’ at the local hawker centre. Read ›› |
Empty vessels don’t make waves |
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With the shipping industry in the doldrums, we speak to Raymon Krishnan, President of the Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society and Alex Schulz from Safe Haven Maritime discusses the increase in laid up vessel at OPL. Read ›› |
En-blocs struggle as market rebounds |
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Next to winning the Toto, having your apartment go on en bloc is the next best thing every Singaporean dreams of.Those dreams may now be getting a little closer as major developers have rushed back into the market from the middle of this year. Read ›› |
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And the recession drags on |
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The newspaper headlines in October may have screamed that the economy had finally turned the corner with the first year on year growth since it emerged from recession. Read ›› |
Rebuilding trust in Asia |
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RBS Head of Trade in Asia tells us that trust is the key to rebuild trade. Read ›› |
Hiring for keeps |
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Streamlining the recruitment process to get the best person for the job is a continuing challenge to most firms. Read ›› |