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Authorities probing false statements, breaches by Noble
THE Commercial Affairs Department (CAD), the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Accounting and Corporate...
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Internet economy in South-east Asia to top US$240b by 2025: study
SOUTH-EAST Asia's Internet economy is expected to exceed US$240 billion by 2025, beating the previous estimate of...
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Neuroscience marketing startup NeuroTrend raises US$1.5m in seed funding
NEUROSCIENCE marketing startup NeuroTrend has raised US$1.5 million in seed funding by Trive Ventures. Other investors...
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Internet economy in South-east Asia to top US$240b by 2025: study
SOUTH-EAST Asia's Internet economy is expected to exceed US$240 billion by 2025, beating the previous estimate of...
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Neuroscience marketing startup NeuroTrend raises US$1.5m in seed funding
NEUROSCIENCE marketing startup NeuroTrend has raised US$1.5 million in seed funding by Trive Ventures. Other investors...
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Daily Debrief: What Happened Today
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DBS makes new appointments to boost transaction banking
DBS Bank has made new appointments to its transaction banking team to support growth in that business.
Homeowners who opposed collective sale must still pay stamp duty: Lawrence Wong
IN a collective sale of private homes, homeowners who opposed it will still have to pay any seller's stamp duty...
Offtakers seek to end water purchase contract for Hyflux JV plant in Algeria
INSOLVENT water project developer Hyflux said on Tuesday that the offtakers of its Souk Tleta desalination plant in...
BREAKING NEWS
Norway's wealth fund buys property in Paris for US$473m
[OSLO] Norway's sovereign wealth fund agreed to buy an office property in central Paris for US$473 million as it...
Twitter CEO kicks up storm in India, offending some Hindus
[NEW DELHI] Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has kicked up a social media storm in India after a picture of him holding a poster...
Sri Lanka risks debt default, warns largest party
[COLOMBO] Sri Lanka's largest party warned Tuesday that the island could default on its debt as Moody's...
Ivanka Trump repeatedly used personal email at White House
[NEW YORK] Ivanka Trump repeatedly used a personal email account to conduct government business in 2017, a White House...
Saudi Arabia announces more new projects in royal investment spree
[DUBAI] Saudi Arabia's King Salman announced US$3 billion in investment projects on Tuesday, the latest in a royal...
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EDITOR'S CHOICE
ASEAN BUSINESS
Internet economy in South-east Asia to top US$240b by 2025: study
SOUTH-EAST Asia's Internet economy is expected to exceed US$240 billion by 2025, beating the previous estimate of...
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GARAGE
E-wallet, crypto players show support for Payment Services Bill
E-WALLET and cryptocurrency players welcomed - with some degree of reservation - the new regulatory framework for...
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STOCKS
MARKET TODAY:
US: Wall Street tumbles at open on retail gloom, tech concerns
[NEW YORK] US stocks opened sharply lower on Tuesday as poor forecasts from retailers for the holiday quarter fed into...
Singapore shares slide 1.2% on Tuesday
SINGAPORE stocks ended 1.2 per cent lower on Tuesday, with the Straits Times Index losing 38.08 points to 3,026.99 at...
Europe: Stock markets open lower
[LONDON] European stocks fell at the opening bell on Tuesday, mirroring Asian losses as a global sell-off picked up...
Hong Kong: Shares tumble in tech sell-off
[HONG KONG] Hong Kong stocks plunged Tuesday, in line with an Asia-wide retreat, with technology firms among the big...
Seoul: Chip, carmaker shares lead losses; won gains
[SEOUL] South Korea's Kospi stock index weakened on Tuesday, weighed by losses in tech and auto industries. The...
Tokyo: Stocks close down; Nissan plunges over 5%
[TOKYO] Tokyo stocks dropped on Tuesday with shares in Nissan diving more than 5 per cent and Mitsubishi also plunging...
BT WEEKLY
SGReit looking to leverage on Thomson Line
WEEKEND shoppers shuffling to and fro two Orchard Road mega malls - Ion Orchard (and its basement Orchard MRT) and Ngee...
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Cider production in New York enters a new golden age
TWO hundred years ago, when the Catskill region was among the cider-making centres of the adolescent United States,...
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LIFESTYLE
Taha Bouqdib
TAHA BOUQDIB DOESN’T believe in coincidences. He uses words like “soul”, “destiny” and “in my blood” when describing...
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A Chef's Tour
ON EVERY DINING table in Ryunique - a modern fine dining restaurant in Seoul’s Gangnam district - is a map.
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A Chef's Tour
ON EVERY DINING table in Ryunique - a modern fine dining restaurant in Seoul’s Gangnam district - is a map.
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THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION
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.
Nov 10, 2018
Banking on digital
BNP Paribas CEO Jean-Laurent Bonnafé tells why mergers and acquisitions are taking a back seat - for now - at the French bank.
Nov 3, 2018
Healthcare 4.0
When you shop for toiletries or medicines in a supermarket, GSK keeps a close eye - with tracking sensors - to find out how and why you made those purchases. Data and analytics are a huge play for the pharmaceutical group, says its CEO for consumer healthcare, Brian McNamara.
Oct 27, 2018
Reading randomness
To avoid nasty surprises, don't try to predict the future - instead, stay aware of all possibilities, says Richard Fenning, Singapore-based CEO of global specialist risk consultancy Control Risks.
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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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