[SINGAPORE] As Singapore peers into a future where technology is indistinguishable from media, the government has set about arming itself with the new Infocomm Media Masterplan that will see it into 2025.
Companies
MORE companies from India are knocking at the door of Singapore Exchange (SGX) as the South Asian country looks to Singapore to help finance its enormous infrastructure needs.
Singapore
IF the collective sale of Eunosville is successful, it will give a big boost to this year's tally of en bloc sales.
Singapore Markets
THE rebound of the previous two days extended into a third session yesterday, as traders continued to bet on US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke making reassuring statements after today's Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting.
Economy Watch
[EDINBURGH] The euro has overtaken Sweden's krona as this year's best performing major currency, revealing how far European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi is falling behind his contemporaries in the foreign exchange wars.
Malaysia
[KUALA LUMPUR] Sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd plans to raise about US$1 billion through a public listing of its power assets in Malaysia next year, Dow Jones Newswires reported.
Indonesia
[JAKARTA] Indonesia missed its target at a bond sale yesterday for the second time in a row on speculation that the falling rupiah and uncertainty over the timing of a fuel-price increase deterred foreign investors.
China
[BEIJING] Foreign direct investment (FDI) in China rose in May by the least in four months, a sign of concern that growth is slowing in the world's second-biggest economy.
World
[WASHINGTON] A top world economic group has called for the creation of a global system to automatically funnel financial information about individuals and companies from countries where their earnings and investments are located to jurisdictions where they might owe taxes.
Transport Hub
[LONDON] China's oil imports are contracting for the first time since 2009, reducing the biggest source of demand for crude tankers at a time when US purchases are slowing and owners face the worst capacity glut in three decades.
Editorial & Opinion
AS the 2015 target date for the Millennium Development Goals approaches, the United Nations is intensifying its efforts to foster debate about what comes next for promotion of development worldwide.
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
AUSTRALIA'S Lend Lease has sold its 25-per-cent equity interest in Jem, a suburban office and retail development next to Jurong East MRT Station, for $227 million (or...
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...
