TEDxSingapore: The meaning of life
AT THE END of one group session, participants of the recent TEDxSingapore Salon event each wrote on a piece of paper...
Back to square one? Why are “asset-light” players in the sharing economy buying up property and cars?
FOUR years ago, an advertising and public relations executive penned these words about four up-and-coming companies...
Interview - Alain Ducasse
ALAIN DUCASSE is synonymous with French fine dining, and has enough gravitas as a chef with 20 Michelin stars to...
Powering social good
ASK Kojin Nakakita to talk about himself and the chairman of Hitachi Asia immediately says he is an ice hockey...
BREAKING NEWS
Japan prosecutors set April date for ex-Nissan chief hearings: report
[TOKYO] Prosecutors in Japan will begin hearings into the case of former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn in April of next...
Tesla board must face trial over Elon Musk's mega-pay package, says judge
[WILMINGTON] A Delaware judge ruled on Friday that Tesla Inc's board of directors must defend chief executive Elon...
Japan allows vaccination of pigs as swine fever spreads east
[TOKYO] Japan will allow the vaccination of pigs to prevent swine fever spreading, the agriculture ministry said in...
Germany unveils US$60 billion climate package
[BERLIN] German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government agreed Friday to support a US$60 billion package of climate...
Mitsubishi likely to cut earnings forecast on rogue oil losses at Singapore unit: analyst
[TOKYO] A US$320 million loss by a rogue oil trader at Mitsubishi's Singapore unit will likely prompt the Japanese...
Sebastien Lepinoy's Road to Three Michelin Stars
Les Amis’s Sebastien Lepinoy recounts the long and tough journey
to get to the top of the Michelin food chain...
Home Improvement
Don’t be fooled by its name. Label Y Jeans isn’t something you buy to wear. The steel table base frame is designed...
1st phase of Sentosa-Brani Master Plan to be completed by 2022
CONSTRUCTION will start by year-end on the long-awaited redevelopment of resort island Sentosa and nearby Pulau...
Play to win: investing in the mobile gaming sector
HERE'S a game you can play - the next time you're out, whether on the train or waiting in line at your favourite...
It's Show Time
YOU DON'T HAVE to own a Patek Philippe watch to get a free pass to the Patek Philippe Watch Art Grand Exhibition at...
TV: Shedding light on China-US trade war
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE between American and Chinese factory workers? A provocative new American documentary titled...
We are falling more in love with bad news
PEOPLE can't tear their eyes away from bad news. A 2014 study by researchers at McGill University showed that even...
For 5-time F1 champ Hamilton, that winning feeling never gets old
LEWIS Hamilton always looks forward to his annual trip to Singapore, and it's hardly a surprise why he feels that...
Telcos need new ideas to dial up revenue from rising data use
SINGAPORE has seen the sharpest decline in data prices among key Asian telecom markets in the past 12 months in...
Banks can use sustainability-linked loans to prod clients into going green
ENVIRONMENTAL, social and governance (ESG) considerations are moving out of a specialised niche into mainstream...
Hard to say goodbye to cheques when they remain cheap to use
SINGAPORE is on track to become cheque-free by 2025, but it may be worth looking at cheque-processing fees and how...
Is BreadTalk's S$80m offer for Food Junction worth the dough?
WAS it nostalgia that led BreadTalk founder and chairman George Quek to buy back the food court operator Food...
EDITOR'S CHOICE
ASEAN BUSINESS
South-east Asia risks faring worse in the next downturn than in the 2007-09 crisis: report
SOUTH-EAST Asia is more vulnerable to an economic downturn than it was during the global financial crisis one decade...
GARAGE
For Airbnb employees, dream turns into disillusionment
[SAN FRANCISCO] Last summer, several Airbnb employees wrote a letter to the online room-rental startup's founders....
STOCKS
US: Wall Street drops after China cancels US farm visits
[BENGALURU] Wall Street dropped on Friday, and also finished the week lower, after a Chinese agriculture delegation...
Europe: Shares log fifth week of gains, Danish pharma firm shines
[BENGALURU] European stocks clocked their fifth straight week of gains on Friday with investors buying into the oil...
Geopolitical tensions limit gains; STI ends flat
INVESTORS found their attentions divided by various geopolitical tensions on Friday, with the world keeping an eye...
US: Wall St opens slightly stronger amid stimulus hopes, easing trade tensions
[NEW YORK] US stocks opened marginally higher on Friday as an interest rate cut by China's central bank and signs of...
Singapore shares end flat as geopolitical tensions weigh
THE Straits Times Index (STI) added just 0.03 per cent or 0.88 point to end at 3,159.68
BT WEEKLY
CTBC eyes South-east Asia for overseas growth
CTBC Bank - Taiwan's largest privately-owned lender - is steering its expansion strategy towards South-east Asia...
New world order and currency wars
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