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Throughout its production history, the SLK has been wowing the market with radical innovations. For example, in its first generation in 1996, the SLK stunned the public with its vario-roof. In a few seconds, the car could be changed from a roadster to a hard-top coupe.

Man’s search for knowledge and truth never ceases. From Plato’s time to the modern man, the pur- suit to define the “self ” never seems to end. With the competitive need to meet pressing deadlines, mortgages to pay, careers to advance and time to beat, there is mounting pressure to put a stop to this journey for knowledge. We caught up with East Asia Institute of Management (EASB) and Singapore Management University (SMU), two of Singapore’s top educational institutions, to explore this issue and attempt to answer the Singapore professionals’ who-am-I and how-much-am-I-worth question. 

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.

Singapore healthcare at its best.

Two different types of creativity make lightbulbs dance in different colors.

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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. Some are effective; perhaps a lot more aren’t. In addition, everyone is capable of sending out messages but the question is whether they actually get across.

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.

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. Worst affected – mass residential markets like those in the east coast. And the main reason is that prices have already rebounded to peak levels, and in some cases have already surpassed peak levels.

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.

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.

To the unemployed person the unemployment rate is always 100%. And with the recent retrenchments and hiring freezes around town, the odds of finding a job are akin to winning the lottery. So despite rumours floating around town that the economy is about to pick and many firms will begin to hire once again, why is it extremely difficult for anyone to land a job? The Singapore Business Review speaks exclusively to the region’s top human resources, recruitment and consulting firms and lets you in on the truth surrounding most companies managing their headcount, the hiring trends in 2009 and where the job market intends to go this year and how you could just land that dream job.

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. Analysts from DBS Vickers Securities believe that Universal Studios may be the key to attract Singapore’s mass market, and Genting’s strength in the mass market.

Keppel Land’s head honcho Kevin Wong has a good reason to smile. Not only did Keppel Land report a strong set of figures for that period, it exceeded most analysts’ expectations.

The black ink continued to flow over at SPH, albeit not as quickly as last year as the downturn in advertising bit into revenues. But at least there was no red ink for the newspaper-cum-property development group, which saw rental income from its Paragon department store help it post a respectable full year profit of $497 million, which was down just under 1% on 2008.

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. At the height of the property squeeze in September 2008 one tenant with impeccable timing, signed up to pay $23 psf for some space in Republic Plaza. Had he waited a year, he could have gotten the same space in the same building for $9.50 psf.