A Personal Christmas
For your favourite collector, the ultimate coup will be to get hold of Suntory’s newly released Hibiki 35 Year Old - an...
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Santa Claus
SANTA CLAUS IS coming to town. In fact, he’s just arrived - just in time to assert his claim over the Orchard Road...
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Restricted Regime
CELEBRITIES swear by them. The rest of us would probably have at some point, tried one or other of its many variations...
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Leading with purpose
BY any measure, BlackRock's ascent from US$1.2 billion in assets under management (AUM) when it was founded some...
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BREAKING NEWS
Ezra to voluntarily wind up 4 dormant subsidiaries
FOUR dormant subsidiaries of Ezra Holdings were placed under creditors' voluntary liquidation with effect from Dec...
China Everbright Water inks deal to build, operate leachate treatment system
WATER treatment company China Everbright Water has secured a project, which commands an investment of 51.46 million...
Sabana Reit says no impact on Vibrant-related master leases so far
SABANA Reit said on Friday that there is no impact on master leases related to its sponsor Vibrant Group at this...
Mapletree Commercial Trust appoints 2 independent non-exec directors
MAPLETREE Commercial Trust (MCT) announced that it has appointed two independent non-executive directors.
3 bids submitted for Pasir Ris Central white site
A 3.8 hectare white site at Pasir Ris Central saw three bids from developers at the close of the tender on Friday.
Zén of Nordic cuisine
IT'S beginning to look a lot like Christ... no wait, Stockholm. If you're hankering for a winter wonderland...
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Taste of Tradition
'Melting pot' doesn't come close to describing the rich cornucopia that is Singapore's food scene...
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Noble disputes regulators' allegations of improper accounting
COMMODITIES trader Noble Group is disputing allegations of possible accounting irregularities by regulators, who have...
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Ethics in focus: Trading in unit trusts
FROM Oct 1 this year, CPF members who make new purchases of products such as investment-linked insurance policies (ILPs...
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Gifts For The Home
Festive greetings and thoughts sent to family and friends via WhatsApp messages are often cold. Handwritten cards with...
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Diversity at the workplace
DIVERSITY at the workplace makes good business sense. Research shows that companies with a more diverse workforce...
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Quite a vexing hex
EARLIER this week, I called a bank and had the (dis)pleasure of dealing with an automated telephone operator. You know...
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Reits' asset injections: A little less action a little more discretion, please
RIGHTS issues have become a thing to fear for Reit investors.
Boob tube's for rubes as pay-TV loses its lustre
PAY-TELEVISION is struggling to reinvent itself for the new millennium.
AI principles should pave way for open probes on data usage
THERE is gnawing unease when it comes to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for data processing by financial...
Brexit may be the panacea to Kwek's M&C headache
THE abrupt departure in September of Millennium & Copthorne Hotels' (M&C) group chief executive Jennifer...
EDITOR'S CHOICE
ASEAN BUSINESS
S-E Asia GDP growth to slow in 2019 amid trade war: ICAEW
ECONOMIC growth across the South-east Asia region is expected to slow in 2019 to 5 per cent, after an estimated 5.3 per...
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GARAGE
Lazada CEO, co-founder Poignant expects 'watershed' year in 2019
LAZADA Group has named co-founder Pierre Poignant as its new chief executive officer, replacing Lucy Peng some nine...
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STOCKS
MARKET TODAY:
Singapore shares end lower on Friday
SINGAPORE stocks closed lower on Friday, with the Straits Times Index down 1.1 per cent or 33.99 points to 3,077.09.
Malaysia: Shares end lower on Friday
MALAYSIA share prices closed lower on Friday, with the FTSE Bursa Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Composite Index down 14.04...
Australia shares end week lower, hurt by weak China data; NZ down
[BENGALURU] Australian shares skidded on Friday as data in China showed the economy of the Pacific nation's...
Tokyo: Nikkei falls as China data, BOJ tankan outlook dent mood
[TOKYO] Japan's Nikkei tumbled on Friday, led by SoftBank and other large-cap stocks, hit by a dull futures and...
Seoul: South Korean stocks fall on weak Chinese data; chipmakers lead losses
[SEOUL] South Korea's Kospi stock index ended lower on Friday, dragged down by sharp losses in shares of...
Singapore stocks: STI resumes Friday afternoon at 3,070.29, down 1.3% on day
SINGAPORE stocks fell on Friday afternoon's trading resumption, with the Straits Times Index declining 1.31 per...
BT WEEKLY
Paving its way to deliver quality healthcare
IN the past year since Clearbridge Health was listed on the Singapore Exchange's Catalist board in Dec 2017, the...
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THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION
Dec 8, 2018
Leading with purpose
As the world's biggest fund manager, BlackRock is using its influence to espouse its bedrock values. Chairman and CEO Larry Fink himself seeks to be a "voice of positiveness" - and says corporations need, now more than ever as governments fall short, to step up in key issues.
Dec 1, 2018
Breaking down to build up
With technology no longer just an enabler of business but an element that drives strategy in every organisation, now's the most exciting time ever, says Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins.
Nov 24, 2018
Entrepreneurial Zen
Zendesk's Mikkel Svane tells why Silicon Valley is still the world's top startup hub. Even the weather helps, he says.
Nov 17, 2018
Strength in a sari
Having built the world's first social stock exchange, particularly to benefit and empower women, Durreen Shahnaz now wants to take impact investing from the margins to the mainstream.
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WHEN Adrian Chia was on holiday in Australia's picturesque Great Ocean Road several years ago, he loved the beautiful coastal scenery and thought about how this was exactly what city dwellers needed to recharge.
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