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The move aims to encourage users to adopt digital payments.

A potential IPO of its subsidiary Amobee may offer some reprieve.

UOB led the gains with 0.48%.

An estimated two in five office buildings have a flexible office component.

And here's how Singapore is helping firms integrate persons with disability into the workforce.

It got an in-principle approval to convert the residential component to serviced apartments.

The site will serve as Poh Tiong Choon Logistics’ corporate headquarters.

Paris Michele was discovered to have falsified company emails and forged documents.

The potential investor is said to be a subsidiary of a state-owned enterprise that provides power services.

Most of the buybacks by DBS were done in May, when the share price fell 14%. Singapore banks’ share buybacks have picked up steam in 2019. A Maybank Kim Eng report noted that DBS and OCBC have bought back more shares YTD and much earlier than they did last year. Maybank KE analyst Thilan Wickramasinghe expounded that DBS has bought back 25% YTD of the volume it bought in 2018. “Importantly, this was mostly done in May 2019, when its share price fell 14%. Historically, DBS was most active buying back shares in Q3/Q4,” the analyst said. Meanwhile, OCBC has bought back 60% of the volume it bought in 2018 and much earlier, the analyst added, noting that the DBS and OCBC buybacks in Q2 2019 are equivalent to 55% and 53%, respectively, of their treasury shares balances. Also read: Singapore's big banks are on a buying spree as share buybacks hit $116.5m

Electronic exports contracted 31.4% YoY.

And 25-year-old Great Singapore Sale will kick off by 21 June. From Property Guru:

UOB led the gains at 0.97%.

Four in five were from the manufacturing sector. This chart from the Ministry of Manpower (MoM) shows that employees on short work-week more than doubled (143%) MoM to 900 in Q1 2019 from 370 in Q4 2018.

High costs and industry downturn prompted more retrenchments.

Around 1,400 civil servants will also benefit from a higher one-off lump sum payment.