A time for reinvention
IT MAY BE SOMEWHAT IMPOLITIC to say it. But if there's one public fi gure who's having a good 2020, it's actress...
Home sweet home-based businesses
"They have not been burdened by the kinds of fixed costs that retail establishments face in rentals and overheads,...
A design perspective
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED TO Nathan Yong on the way to becoming a furniture designer: he got hooked on Seinfeld. The TV...
Window of opportunity
FIRMS still standing must be thinking that the worst is over, after having seen the coronavirus pandemic sweep away...
BREAKING NEWS
Malaysian goldsmiths mould a profit out of pandemic
[KOTA BHARU, MALAYSIA] In a backroom workshop in Malaysia, goldsmiths with blowtorches and chisels sit at wooden...
Austrian ex-finance minister gets eight years in jail for corruption
[VIENNA] A Vienna court on Friday sentenced a flamboyant, jet-setting former Austrian finance minister to eight...
TikTok sale deadline on hold as talks with US continue
[SAN FRANCISCO] A deadline set by the Trump administration for the forced sale of TikTok's US assets will come and...
South Korea reports 583 coronavirus cases, off nine-month high
[SEOUL] South Korea reported 583 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, down from the previous day's 629, which was...
San Francisco mayor orders strict new lockdowns as pandemic spirals
[LOS ANGELES] The mayor of San Francisco on Friday ordered new lockdowns and business restrictions across the Bay...
All dressed up
YOU WOULD THINK THAT with three kids under the age of four, three dogs, five cats and two turtles to take care of,...
Fantastic Feasts – and how to cook them
FORGET about running around all over town to shop for Christmas dinner ingredients, and cracking your head for...
Grab-Singtel group puts cybersecurity at top of digital bank agenda
GRAB and Singtel's consortium is making cybersecurity a top priority for their digital bank. This comes as the new...
Sabana's activist investors to fast-track plan to internalise management after merger with ESR scuppered
ACTIVIST unitholders got to work fast after the proposed merger between ESR-Reit and Sabana Reit fell through on...
Billions in SRS, delayed gratification, and the need to do more now
IT SEEMS obvious. Top up your Supplementary Retirement Scheme (SRS) and get 2020 tax relief of up to S$3,366 for...
Have Covid-19 passport, will travel
NIETZSCHE was right. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. Having survived oil embargoes, SARS, and market crashes...
Ferrari F8 Spider review: A convertible bond
THERE are a million reasons to buy a convertible like the Ferrari F8 Tributo, and probably a million reasons not to...
The smart watch: telemetry for humans?
I RECENTLY bought a new Apple watch, now in its sixth edition since it first launched in 2015. I noted with...
Retail landlords must reinvent the shopping mall to thrive in new normal
IN recent years, retail landlords have been working to tweak their tenant mix by bringing in more activities and...
No success in telcos' fight to grow profits
LOCAL telcos Singtel and StarHub both turned in double-digit declines in underlying earnings for the latest...
Investors would be better served if IFAs were to widen the scope of their advice
DELOITTE & Touche Corporate Finance, as the independent financial adviser (IFA) on Sabana Reit's proposed merger...
Time for Hyflux's PnP holders to move on as firm enters judicial management
FROM the get-go, the restructuring of Hyflux had placed special attention on the 34,000 perpetual and preference...
EDITOR'S CHOICE
ASEAN BUSINESS
Consultancy urges Indonesia to adopt remote working post-pandemic
INDONESIA could stand to make a bigger shift towards remote working, one consulting firm has said.
GARAGE
Grab-Singtel group puts cybersecurity at top of digital bank agenda
GRAB and Singtel's consortium is making cybersecurity a top priority for their digital bank. This comes as the new...
STOCKS
Europe: Shares rise on oil gains, stimulus hopes
[BENGALURU] Oil stocks lifted European shares on Friday, with London's blue-chip index hitting nine-month highs,...
US: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq all end at records, extending rally
[NEW YORK] Wall Street stocks surged to fresh records Friday, extending a post-election rally as disappointing US...
Yangzijiang undervalued, set to bottom out, says DBS
YANGZIJIANG Shipbuilding (YZJ) is a "conviction buy", DBS Group Research said on Friday, as it noted that the...
Singapore shares end week in the black, STI up 0.62%
SINGAPORE shares extended their gains on Friday to end the week in the black, with the benchmark Straits Times Index...
US: Wall St opens near record highs as grim jobs data fuels stimulus hopes
[NEW YORK] Wall Street's main indexes opened near all-time highs on Friday as worse-than-expected jobs growth in...
Singapore shares end the week in the black, STI up 0.62%
SINGAPORE shares extended their gains on Friday to end the week in the black, with the benchmark Straits Times Index...
BT WEEKLY
Medtecs strategises to be more than a one-hit pandemic wonder
AS nations struggled to deal with the Covid-19 crisis earlier this year, Medtecs International Corp - a Singapore-...
FOCUS
South Korea reports 583 coronavirus cases, off nine-month high
[SEOUL] South Korea reported 583 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, down from the previous day's 629, which was...
StanChart Singapore mulls digital-only bank under 'rooted foreign bank' framework
STANCHART Singapore on Friday told The Business Times it is exploring an additional banking licence under the...
Acquisition growth to continue for industrial S-Reits in 2021
DBS Group Research expects Singapore industrial real estate investment trusts (Reits) to deliver 5 per cent growth...
SkillsFuture Month 2020
THIS year's SkillsFuture Month, taking place during the Covid-19 pandemic, will feature a series of mostly virtual...
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