[SINGAPORE] A special dividend awaits shareholders of Overseas Union Enterprise (OUE). The property firm's executive chairman Stephen Riady said in an interview with BT that it will make a payout to shareholders following the listing of its hospitality and retail real estate investment trust (Reit), which is expected to be launched soon pending market conditions.
Companies
THE shipping industry's financial difficulties should not overtake the implementation of environmental regulations, says the head of a region-wide grouping of shippers, the users of shipping services.
Economy Watch
[PARIS] A feeling in France that the European Union no longer works in its interest is fuelling tensions between Paris and Brussels and adding pressure on President Francois Hollande to be more assertive in Europe.
Malaysia
A MALAYSIAN opposition lawmaker has filed a legal petition challenging the appointments of two ministers and three deputy ministers.
Indonesia
[JAKARTA] Indonesia's planned hike in fuel prices will drive 2013 inflation to a five-year high and pressure the central bank to raise interest rates again even as the increased cost of living weighs on consumers in South-east Asia's largest economy.
India
[NEW DELHI] An Indian Finance Ministry panel has recommended easing foreign investment rules in more than a dozen industries to help fund a record current account gap, according to three government officials with knowledge of the matter.
World
[BERLIN] Five years and 50 years. As US President Barack Obama revisits Berlin, he cannot escape those anniversaries and the inevitable comparisons to history and personal achievement.
Focus
The Business Times: In your opinion, is the accounting profession leading or lagging when it comes to innovation and value creation within an organisation?
Editorial & Opinion
DATA privacy has been a "concept not so new" in several countries globally that promptly responded to the OECD Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data adopted in the 1980s.
Dining
Last week was a tough one. In our ongoing pursuit of the next great culinary adventure, we've come up a bit short. We don't know if it's a labour shortage, customer shortage or seafood-supplier-running-from-loansharks-causing-a-crustacean-shortage.
Shopping
FASHION school graduate shows used to be exercises in self-indulgence, brimming with poor imitations of Comme des Garcons-inspired deconstructed works or morose tributes to the minimalists of the Antwerp Six.
Wellness
WITH rising affluence and longevity, heart disease has become an increasingly important cause of disability and death in the older adults.
BizIT
[WASHINGTON] NEWS of a massive surveillance effort led by the secretive National Security Agency has sent Web users scrambling to find new ways to avoid tracking.
Young Investor
DRESSED in crisp pink oxfords and cloaked in an air of casual debonair, the pair of Subaish Rajamanickam and Mano Kunasegaran from Biggest Baddest Parties (BBP) do not...
Executive Money
[LONDON] JUST as a month-long stock-market rout seems to have further trashed the concept of a "Great Rotation" from bonds into equities, evidence is emerging that...
Property
[BEIJING] Dalian Wanda Group, the Chinese developer controlled by billionaire Wang Jianlin, is investing £1 billion (S$1.97 billion) in a British yachtmaker and a London...
Raffles Conversation
IN Swiss business school IMD's latest country competitiveness rankings, the United States regained the top spot on the strengths of a revitalised financial sector, its...
Views From the Top
With the free MRT rides programme, how can flexible work arrangements within the CBD benefit companies as well as employees? More generally, under what circumstances...
