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The telco claims to have 22% of Singapore households subscribed to their bundled broadband.

The Government will be giving a total of $17 million in SEC by 30 September 2011.

Tiger issued  a statement saying that Thai's management will continue their joint venture, despite the Chairman of Thai Airways saying it will discontinue the joint venture.

DBS expects the country’s inflation to be on a sticky downward grind in the coming months.

Thai-Tiger will no longer be set up as Thai Airways now has its budget carrier.

Amidst negative global sentiment, spending attitudes are forecast to be precautionary.

This leaves the secondary market more subdued while outlook for the land market remains cautious.

The country's earnings volatility is the lowest in the region, having stayed at 21.4% in the last 5 years.

But deeper analysis of the statistics would show that “pure” private homes launched during the month declined by just a meager 1%.

Companies are having to offer salary increases of 15-20% because of the skills shortage.

Standard Chartered says a technical recession could affect some Asian economies, like Singapore and Hong Kong, by the end of 3Q 2011.

This figure comes as a surprise, especially amidst worsening economic conditions.

Food and beverage sales also rose 1.6%.

This is lower than the 28,300 for the first quarter but comparable to the second quarter of 2010 at 24,900.

Records revealed 57% of residents laid off in the first quarter secured employment by June 2011.

And Singapore has the sharp slowdown in GDP growth to blame.