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Alibaba's Taobao debuts Jiyoujia home and living brand in Singapore

Alibaba's Taobao debuts Jiyoujia home and living brand in Singapore

Taobao’s NomadX store will feature furniture items from the platform and recommendations via digital showcases.

SMEs open to business transformation investments amidst souring economic expectations: poll

The manufacturing sector saw the highest uptick in capital investment expectations by 2.15%.

National Wages Council invites views on wage recommendations

NWC will convene in April and May 2019 to develop its annual guidelines on wage and employment-related issues.

Inflation further eased to 1.5% in February

The fall reflected lower inflation for services, retail items and electricity & gas.

Mandarin Gardens kills second en bloc attempt amidst failure to meet 80% consensus

Only proprietors comprising 68.34% of the 1,017 units signed the deal.

HDB awards Pasir Ris Central tender for $700m

The mixed-use development comprises a bus interchange, a polyclinic, and a town plaza.

Singtel boosts ICT and digital businesses amidst declining legacy voice revenue: analyst

Its additional Airtel rights buy will not derail from its mandate to pay out $0.175 dividends for FY2019 and FY2020.

Keppel Corporation arm bags $425m deal with drilling contractor Awilco Drilling PLC

It will construct a second mid-water semi-submersible drilling rig for harsh environment use.

Chart of the Day: Industrial sector's vacancy rates to hit 12.1% in 2020

Rentals across industrial, warehouse and business parks sectors would also start turning up from 2019 onwards.

Wilmar's China unit set for $12-13b market cap upon Shanghai IPO: analyst

It is backed by its ARAWANA brand for cooking oil, pack rice, flour, and pack dry noodles.

Changi Airport passenger movements up 4% in February

Passengers from Europe and North America led the growth.

50,000 government-linked email credentials found in illegal data banks

Most are either outdated or bogus addresses, but 119 are still being used.

Two consortiums to trial self-driving environmental service vehicles for road cleaning

They will apply AV technology to commercial mechanical road sweepers.

PUB slams Hyflux investor's basis for withdrawing from restructuring deal

SM Investments gave Hyflux two weeks to resolve its default or it will terminate the restructuring deal.

Property investment sales eased 31.4% to $3.59b in Q1

The residential sector accounted for 30.4% of sales volume.