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Cecilia Leong-Faulkner
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Hysteria, Coined
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As Austrian as red bull
FOR a top-ranking diplomat, Austria's self-professed "startup ambassador" to Singapore comes across as...
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Why some Saudi women will keep their driving licences a secret
[RIYADH] Saudi Arabia's monarch may have opened the door for Saudi women like Shahd to start driving, but she...
Xiaomi puts indefinite delay on CDRs in blow to China's plans for tech listings
[HONG KONG] Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp said on Saturday there is no timeframe for a mainland share offering,...
Vietnam busts 600b dong online betting ring: state media
[HANOI] Vietnamese police broke up an online football gambling ring worth around S$35 million, arresting four people as...
Switzerland beats Serbia in a game tinged with history and politics
[KALININGRAD, Russia] It was Xherdan Shaqiri's right boot that made the headlines before his match on Friday, but...
Ten days after Trump-Kim summit hard work yet to begin
[WASHINGTON] The landmark summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ended with a pledge...
The heat is on at Chengdu
GREASE is the word at Chengdu - a one-stop culinary tour of China's Sichuan province that is part illuminating and...
The Fine Art Of Making Dashi
WHOEVER SAID SIMPLICITY is the hardest thing to achieve must have tried to make dashi at some stage in his life.
Off to San Francisco for Hashida Sushi's next phase of growth
HE may have exited Hashida Sushi in Singapore, but the chef who made it one of the most popular Japanese restaurants in...
Telcos - dial D for dividend?
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Thinking Out Of The Box
WHEN IT COMES TO buying property, Manfred Schmoelz and his wife have one priority - location, location, location.
Bawah, A Private Paradise
A SCHOOL OF ANTHIAS DANCES right before your eyes; marine butterflies of gold and magenta darting, flitting, rising and...
Drumming it up
FOR the past many Saturdays, I have been spending time at the Grandstand, a mall on Turf Club Road that's perhaps...
Not fading into the sunset during the twilight years
WHEN Dr Mahathir became President of Malaysia for the second time, at the ripe age of 92 years, he demonstrated it is...
Ho Bee may have last laugh by eschewing crowded Singapore market for London
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Will SembMarine chairman leave to lead Petronas?
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Malaysia Inc reform mustn't become a witch-hunt
"THIS page is being updated" appears innocuously under the "Leadership" and "Board of Trustees...
Private bank clients cushion SGD bonds slide
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EDITOR'S CHOICE
STOCKS
MARKET TODAY:
European shares bounce but trade jitters linger on
[LONDON] Better-than-expected euro zone economic data and energy stocks galvanised by an Opec agreement on a modest...
US: Dow snaps losing streak on energy lift
[NEW YORK] The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed on Friday, as the Dow put to rest an eight-day...
DLF Holdings eyeing Catalist listing
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Trade, oil fears linger over markets
AFTER a week of worry over global trade, as one trading partner after another hit back against United States tariffs,...
Brokers' take
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Telcos - dial D for dividend?
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BT WEEKLY
Building lifestyle developments in China
ASIA-PACIFIC Strategic Investments Ltd (APSIL), a Catalist-listed small-cap company backed by Singapore tycoon Oei Hong...
THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION
Jun 23, 2018
As Austrian as red bull
Forget The Sound of Music and bucolic yodelling. Karin Fichtinger-Grohe, Austria's first resident ambassador to Singapore, is more excited about being in Asia, now that Austria is making the region a focus of its foreign policy.
Jun 16, 2018
The Disneyland of tech
Brad Smith, Microsoft's President, believes the company is a leader in AI because it has the best computer science research capability in the world.
Jun 9, 2018
The intricacy of problem-solving
As CEO of global tech consultancy ThoughtWorks, Guo Xiao brings an engineer's mindset to helping clients tackle complex issues.
Jun 2, 2018
Tech Titan
Since leaving Oracle for Infor, Charles Phillips has been on a shopping spree to retool the enterprise software firm. The IT mogul and former Obama adviser sees business potential even in trade tensions and protectionist borders. BY ANNABETH LEOW
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