Singapore
ComfortDelGro buys two Buslink companies in Australia for $165m
ComfortDelGro buys two Buslink companies in Australia for $165m
The companies operate a fleet of 401 buses across four Australian states.
DBS profit balloons 72% to $1.41b in Q3
Strong lending and fee income figures boosted quarterly earnings.
Daily Markets Briefing: STI up 1.81%
Trade concerns could weigh on the local bourse today.
Chart of the Day: High-tech industrial rental growth set to outpace logistics
E-commerce is steadily driving leasing activity.
Is Singapore's demographic a ticking time bomb for businesses?
This generation is living longer than ever before. In Singapore, life expectancy at birth for men is 80 and women is 85 (as of 2015). This is compared to a life expectancy of 59 for men in 1960 and 63 for women. Medical innovations, as well as more awareness of how to live healthily and the importance of having an active mind are often attributed to our longer lives.
Daily Briefing: Asia's ultra-rich fuel Singapore's family office boom; Singtel joins $38.47m funding for US startup
And Park Esta opens showflat for preview.
Singapore and Chongqing form fintech alliance
Chongqing and Singapore will work together to apply FinTech solutions to make STC hassle free, safe and cost efficient for stakeholders.
Manufacturing PMI falls to 51.9 in October
The factory output index is at its lowest since July 2017.
The Instagram shake-up: What businesses need to know
On the whole, Singapore has a high (84%) penetration of internet users (4.83M), with 83% (4.8M users) who are on social media, and 95% of these social media users accessing social media sites daily. That’s really high.
Yongnam bags contracts worth $53.4m
Amongst the projects is to design and build a four-storey regional HQ.
Qualifying cross-border financing deals with Chongqing hit $5.78b in August
Bond issuance by Chinese issuers in Singapore almost doubled in 2017 to reach $18b.
Singapore Post Q2 profits slipped 12.9% to $25.15m
Its stake in an associated company was diluted, making it ineligible for equity accounting.
New Zealand beats Singapore in ease of doing business rankings
Singapore can improve by making property registration and electricity application easier.
Mapletree Logistics Trust to lease newly-bought Vietnamese warehouse to Unilever
It bought a warehouse in Binh Duong province for $43m.
Sembcorp Industries Q3 profits slipped 11.6% to $82.33m
It blamed its marine segment upon the sale of a semi-submersible and continued low business volume.
SGX unveils 10 new leveraged exposure products
It will let SIP-qualified investors take long or short positions with leverage on the daily performance of the underlying stocks.
StarHub to pull the plug on cable services in 2019
It is ushering its customers to an all-fibre network for more efficient services.
Commentary
‘Tokenmaxxing’ – The wrong AI race to run in Singapore
To outsmart modern fraud, we must first know the enemy
Why Singapore SMEs cannot wait for quantum cyber risk to arrive before securing data
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’
Transformation without disruption: Your Existing ERP is an accelerant to business innovation