Singapore
Daily Briefing: Retail landlords may lower rents for higher occupancy; Sunpower Group buys Changshu Suyuan for $47.35m
Daily Briefing: Retail landlords may lower rents for higher occupancy; Sunpower Group buys Changshu Suyuan for $47.35m
And Temasek unit invests in e-games chairs maker Secretlab.
Braddell View owners revive en bloc bid for $2.08b
It was earlier put up for sale on 27 March.
Here are the hot jobs in the digitising education sales sector
Course consultants and business development managers are expected to be in demand.
APAC airport traffic growth slows to below 5% in January-June 2019
Passenger traffic in Australia nearly ground to a halt whilst those in India fell below the 5% mark.
4 in 5 employees want digital skill investment from employers
About half expect their jobs to be automated in the next decade.
Sheng Siong recovery looms as same store sales rebound
Same-store sales are expected to bounce back 0.5% after a 0.6% decline in H1.
Mobike to transfer bike share license to SG Bike
Once approved, 25,000 bikes will be added to SG Bike’s fleet and make it the city’s largest operator.
NODX down 14.6% in Q2
NODX is expected to fall by up to 9% by end-2019.
MTI downgrades 2019 GDP growth forecast to 0.0-1.0%
The economy grew by just 0.1% in Q2.
Chart of the Day: Property investment sales soared 49.2% to $7.26b in Q2
Sales of offices generated $3.84b, up by 270.8%.
Maybank Singapore's strategy to drive wealth management costs down
The bank is enhancing its digital capabilities beyond portfolio reviews to support a growing number of online transactions.
Here's how firms spend their #insta budgets
Instagram-focused budgets are something that wasn't seen one or two years ago, said marketers.
Landlords cash in on Singapore's coworking boom
Landlord-operated brands include csuites by Lendlease which occupies 72,000 sqft, whilst Guoco Midtown will set aside up to 97,500 sqft of their NLA for flexible spaces.
Daily Briefing: MAS strengthens scrutiny of shell accounts; Healthcare startups on average raise $13.7m per round
And Singapore is expected to ban domestic elephant ivory trade in 2021.
Singtel, DBS and CapitaLand top Singapore Governance and Transparency Index in 2019
Amongst REITs and business trusts, CapitaLand Commercial Trust dethroned CapitaLand Mall Trust.
Four largest hospitality REITs average NPI fell 2% in Q2
Declining income from Frasers Hospitality Trust and OUE H-Trust weighed on headline figures.
CapitaLand announces US$3.4b of divestments in deleveraging bid
It aims to bring net gearing from 0.73x to 064x by end-2020.
Commentary
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Is Singapore's emphasis on long-term security and stability hindering purpose-driven employees?
When Singapore's agentic AI ‘chefs’ arrive, will the kitchen be ready for them?
What Singapore’s app store rules reveal about the future of online trust
Faster hiring alone will not fix construction’s productivity problem
Beyond policy: How Singapore's service sector can win at the frontline
Solving the production problem behind Singapore’s ‘pilot purgatory’
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