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Luxury residential market to be the hardest hit by additional buyer’s stamp duty
Luxury residential market to be the hardest hit by additional buyer’s stamp duty
Foreigners who made up almost half of the prime home sales last year may retreat and shift interest to cheaper homes.
Emerging markets’ GDP to overtake developed economies by 2014
It’s not so far-fetched with almost 70% of total world growth seen to come from emerging markets in Asia.
Keppel more likely to win drilling contracts from Azerbaijan NOC
Find out how much is the potential boost to order book of Keppel.
Foreigners bought 31% of private homes in 2011
So from which countries do the top four foreign buyers come from?
Look out for a CapitaMalls Asia comeback
Give it five years and its China malls will start raking in profits and prove naysayers wrong, says Maybank Kim Eng.
Surplus or deficit for FY2012 Singapore budget?
OCBC pegs it at a neutral to modest deficit of under 1% GDP given what it sees as diminishing macro worries.
Why Singaporeans are slow to switch to fibre broadband
Usage is creeping up for this high-speed internet service but many know little of its practical benefits.
Raffles Education’s revenue dips 13% to S$36m in 2Q12
As the volume of university-going students continues to plunge due to demographic changes.
90% of business executives expect more protectionist measures
That is if the global economy slides into a double-dip recession.
Singapore ranked third most globalized economy
Guess which country topped the list and beat Singapore?
Singapore tourism receipts reached a new high in 2011
The figures met the year’s forecast range of S$22 – S$24 billion - but how much was it exactly?
SIA begins codesharing on Australian domestic flights
Tickets for the codeshare flights are now open for sale.
Singapore amongst exposed to risk of deterioration in the Euro area
Singapore exhibits highest reliance on Euro banks with more than a third or 39% of its GDP are Euro banks' claims.
Commercial crimes up in 2011
Cases of failure to deliver goods and services rose to 493.
More Asians, less Brits travelled to Singapore in 2011
International visitor arrivals reached more than 13 million and 76% came from Asia.
Tiger Airways will be caged in the red
Skyrocketing costs and sketchy utilization of its Australian fleet have defanged the airlines for what could be a long time.
Tiger Airways on the search for its next CEO
As its current CEO, Chin Yau Seng, will soon be returning to SIA.
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