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Flextime, unlimited vacation days on the cards amidst sluggish salary growth
Flextime, unlimited vacation days on the cards amidst sluggish salary growth
Technology firms are scrambling to upgrade their perks programmes to include parental leaves, free meals, and hiring package upgrades, consequently becoming companies of choice for half of candidates.
Bitcoin bother puts crypto platform on trial
Singapore International Commercial Court decided that cryptocurrencies are properties traded with trust.
Strata-titled retail units sales skyrocket 105% to $130.6m in Q2: Knight Frank
63 strata-titled retail transactions were lodged in Q2, up 50%.
Household incomes up 2.4% to $11,780 in 2017-2018
An average of $4,910 a month is spent on goods and services.
Singapore's hotel RevPar hits $185 in H1
The luxury segment drove most of the half-year gains.
Can air taxis take flight in Singapore's skies?
Passenger air vehicles are having trouble taking off because of the city’s good traffic conditions and regulations.
Beyond Japan: Sompo Holdings Asia's journey towards a sturdy retail platform
The insurer seeks to build and reinforce brand awareness for direct consumers in key Asia Pacific markets.
Average CBD Grade A office rents jumped 12.6% to hit 10-year high in Q2
Rates in Beach Road/Bugis Area rose 18% to $9.18 psf pm.
Banks' loan growth could hit 5% by end-2019
A slew of enbloc and infrastructure projects will boost lending activities.
Singapore is expats' top pick for relocation: study
Healthcare and tech sectors are the most desirable industries, according to respondents.
How The Great Room is riding on Asia's co-working wave
It targets established, value-sensitive corporates that make up the fastest growing segment in Asia.
Love, Bonito to open largest physical store in Funan
The shop will have instagrammable spots, an express e-commerce counter, and on-demand stylists.
Digital consumers power up Singapore's big three banks
DBS and OCBC generate twice or thice as much revenue from digital retail and SME customers than traditional customers, on average.
Retail property investment sales jumped 52% to $961m in Q2
Chinatown Point was sold for $520m or $2,450 psf NLA.
Headline inflation could average 0.9% in 2019
Sluggish retail sales and the appreciating SGD have limited price gains.
NODX down 17.3% in June
Electronic NODX contracted 31.9% YoY.
Singapore GDP growth to fall to 0.9% by end-2019 as technical recession risks loom
MAS might soon intervene and ease monetary policy.
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