The Staying Power of Bespoke Design
IN THESE CHALLENGING times, a long-term relationship is everything in business. Local designers and artisans are...
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...
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...
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BACK in January, when the world was blissfully unaware of the disruption Covid-19 would come to wreak in our lives,...
BREAKING NEWS
Art Basel show in Switzerland cancelled over coronavirus worries
[BASEL] The Art Basel show, which was slated for September, has been called off amid worries about health risks and...
Volkswagen considering more cost cuts to cope with downturn
[BERLIN] Volkswagen is considering more cost cuts to help cope with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic...
Opec+ agrees to extend output cuts as cheats offer penance
[MOSCOW] Opec+ agreed to a one-month extension of its record output cuts and adopted more stringent methods to...
Malaysia: Even US$3b not enough to settle 1MDB case with Goldman
[KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's new government would not be willing to accept even compensation of US$3 billion from...
Malaysia prime minister appoints Petronas CEO to run Malaysia Airlines
[KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on Saturday appointed Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin, the...
Dining Goes Virtual
What's the difference between a virtual restaurant and one that's simply pivoted to offer delivery options?
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....
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...
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,...
Blasts From A Celluloid Past
A film historian has uploaded several old Singapore films on YouTube, reminding us of our rich cinematic heritage...
Art On The Rebound
Delayed by Covid-19, an international art show with Singapore’s participation finally opens in Hong Kong
Brave new news world
SOME years ago, when I was in Washington DC, I visited the Newseum, an institution celebrating journalism and the...
Our eyes: Our first defence
SGSecure, a national campaign launched in Singapore four years ago for crisis preparedness has been a success in...
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...
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 (...
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...
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...
EDITOR'S CHOICE
ASEAN BUSINESS
UK seeks to boost post-Brexit ties with Asean partnership
[LONDON] Britain has applied to become a dialogue partner of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), the...
GARAGE
Grubhub receives takeover interest from Just Eat Takeaway, Delivery Hero: CNBC
[BENGALURU] US food delivery company Grubhub has received takeover interest from at least two European companies -...
STOCKS
US bonds falter as blazing stock rally lures investors
[NEW YORK] Improving US economic data is pushing investors out of US government bonds at the fastest pace in months...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
BT WEEKLY
Hyphens Pharma revs up digital push amid Covid-19
HAVING transformed its traditional wholesale business into an online medical hypermart two decades ago, Hyphens...
FOCUS
PM Lee, other Cabinet ministers to speak in national broadcasts on Covid-19
[SINGAPORE] Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat and several other ministers will...
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...
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...
PM Lee, other Cabinet ministers to speak in national broadcasts on Covid-19
[SINGAPORE] Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat and several other ministers will...
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