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Jun 5, 2020 05:50 AM

The Staying Power of Bespoke Design

IN THESE CHALLENGING times, a long-term relationship is everything in business. Local designers and artisans are...

Jun 6, 2020 05:50 AM

Brand new ball game

"We decided that instead of spending on advertising (to get people to sell or buy cars), we will spend on creating...

Jun 5, 2020 05:50 AM

Suzy Annetta, Editor-in-chief, Design Anthology

GROWING UP IN a single parent household, Suzy Annetta and her mother moved from one rental home to another. The pair...

Jun 6, 2020 05:50 AM

Eye, robot

BACK in January, when the world was blissfully unaware of the disruption Covid-19 would come to wreak in our lives,...

BREAKING NEWS

Jun 6, 2020 06:54 AM

Oil climbs 5% on US jobless drop, Opec+ meeting hopes

[NEW YORK] Oil prices rose on Friday after an unexpected fall in the May US jobless rate and Opec's decision to...

Jun 6, 2020 06:51 AM

US: Wall Street rallies to end higher on surprise jobs report

[BENGALURU] Wall Street surged on Friday after a strikingly upbeat May jobs report unexpectedly provided the...

Jun 6, 2020 06:49 AM

Europe: Stocks rack up hefty gains as cyclicals rally

[BENGALURU] European stocks racked up their best week in two months on Friday, with investors scooping up battered...

Jun 5, 2020 10:56 PM

Hyflux receives notice of termination for Algerian O&M contract

HYFLUX said on Friday that one of its units has received a notice of termination in respect of the operations and...

Jun 5, 2020 10:50 PM

Oil India calls on Singapore experts to handle gas blowout

[NEW DELHI] State-run explorer Oil India has sought help from from Singapore-based Alert Disaster Control to contain...

Jun 5, 2020 05:50 AM

Dining Goes Virtual

What's the difference between a virtual restaurant and one that's simply pivoted to offer delivery options?

Jun 5, 2020 05:50 AM
DINING IN

Hawker fare blossoms at Miss Vanda

SO I just ate at a new restaurant. It was weird. The dining room looked like mine. The presentation was terrible....

Jun 6, 2020 05:50 AM
FORTITUDE BUDGET

Four Budgets may help avert 5 percentage point output loss

SINGAPORE'S four Budgets this year may help it avoid an annual average output loss of five percentage points or S$23...

Jun 6, 2020 05:50 AM
INSIGHTS FROM CFA SOCIETY SINGAPORE

The demise of the business-to-consumer model

THE INTERNET of Things (IoT) refers to an interconnected system whereby objects or things such as alarm clocks,...

Jun 5, 2020 05:50 AM

Blasts From A Celluloid Past

A film historian has uploaded several old Singapore films on YouTube, reminding us of our rich cinematic heritage...

Jun 5, 2020 05:50 AM

Art On The Rebound

Delayed by Covid-19, an international art show with Singapore’s participation finally opens in Hong Kong

Jun 6, 2020 05:50 AM
THE BROAD VIEW

Brave new news world

SOME years ago, when I was in Washington DC, I visited the Newseum, an institution celebrating journalism and the...

Jun 6, 2020 05:50 AM
HEALTH

Our eyes: Our first defence

SGSecure, a national campaign launched in Singapore four years ago for crisis preparedness has been a success in...

Jun 4, 2020 05:50 AM
HOCK LOCK SIEW

Mandate for landlords' rent waivers exception to the norm

THIS year is turning out to be a rather bad year for landlords. First, most of their tenants had to be shuttered to...

Jun 3, 2020 05:50 AM
HOCK LOCK SIEW

Aerospace firms get some reprieve but the fight's not over yet

THANKS to the enhanced Jobs Support Scheme (JSS), companies such as ST Engineering and SIA Engineering Company (...

Jun 2, 2020 05:50 AM
HOCK LOCK SIEW

Giving up MSCI licensing may hurt but SGX has more strings to its bow

THE rivalry between Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing (HKEx) has been cast into the...

May 27, 2020 05:50 AM
HOCK LOCK SIEW

For banking to go digital, the first steps need to begin with empathy

IT SEEMS like a natural course correction with the virus outbreak. As banks have to limit physical interactions with...



ASEAN BUSINESS

Jun 5, 2020 10:22 AM

Thailand's headline inflation likely to remain in negative territory in coming months

THAILAND'S headline inflation is likely to remain in negative territory in the coming months, though the downward...

GARAGE

Jun 5, 2020 03:44 PM

Construction tech startup Hubble raises S$5m from Tin Men

HUBBLE, a Singapore-based startup specialising in construction analytics data, has raised S$5 million from Tin Men...


STOCKS

MARKET TODAY:
Jun 6, 2020 06:51 AM

US: Wall Street rallies to end higher on surprise jobs report

[BENGALURU] Wall Street surged on Friday after a strikingly upbeat May jobs report unexpectedly provided the...

Jun 6, 2020 06:49 AM

Europe: Stocks rack up hefty gains as cyclicals rally

[BENGALURU] European stocks racked up their best week in two months on Friday, with investors scooping up battered...

Jun 6, 2020 05:50 AM

High yield stocks provide bright spots in gloomy economy: analysts

EVEN as many companies suspend or cut dividend payments to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, analysts say some stocks...

Jun 6, 2020 05:50 AM
STOCKS

Singapore shares end higher for fifth straight session, up 1.6%

THE Straits Times Index (STI) ended higher on Friday for the fifth straight session at 2,751.50, up 44.30 points or...

Jun 5, 2020 09:44 PM

US: Wall St jumps on surprise fall in unemployment rate

[NEW YORK] US stocks jumped at the open on Friday after a closely watched report showed a surprise drop in the US...

Jun 5, 2020 06:00 PM

Singapore shares end higher for fifth straight session, up 1.6%

THE Straits Times Index (STI) ended higher on Friday for the fifth straight session at 2,751.50, up 44.30 points or...


FOCUS

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Jun 6, 2020 05:50 AM
FORTITUDE BUDGET

Four Budgets may help avert 5 percentage point output loss

SINGAPORE'S four Budgets this year may help it avoid an annual average output loss of five percentage points or S$23...

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Jun 6, 2020 05:50 AM
AGM WATCH

UOB seeks to maintain dividend policy despite Covid-19 woes

UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) is targeting to maintain its 50 per cent dividend payout ratio this year amid the...

Jun 4, 2020 12:14 PM

HDB resale volume dips to 30-year-low but prices edge up

[SINGAPORE] Housing Board flat resale volumes tumbled still further last month, following the already record low...

Jun 6, 2020 05:50 AM
VIRUS OUTBREAK

Business formation to stay subdued, cessation to pick up

NEW business formation is expected to stay subdued, while cessations may pick up in the coming months as the Covid-...


THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION

Eye, robot

Covid-19 is helping to accelerate the healthcare sector's transition out of its age-old model of care, which could spell structural shifts in how hospitals operate, says Professor Wong Tien Yin, medical director of the Singapore National Eye Centre.

Banking on leadership

Amid the uncertainty that the Covid-19 outbreak has wrought, the big challenge for a leader is to make decisions that are in the best interests of all stakeholders, not least employees, says StanChart Singapore CEO Patrick Lee.

Pushing the envelope

From smart stamps that track packages and mailboxes that enable contactless delivery, to cold chain shipments and reverse dispatches, Postmaster General Vincent Phang says Singapore Post's reach is limited only by its imagination.

Hey, Google

"How can we help" is what Ben King, the IT behemoth's Singapore operations head, has been focused on since the outbreak of the global pandemic.


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