Grab in 'position to acquire' amid Gojek merger speculation, says CEO
GRAB is in a position to make acquisitions and is financially strong even in a tough year, the company's chief...
SFF x Switch 2020 Ep 1: New digital banks to jazz up Singapore
In this first episode, BT's banking and finance editor Jamie Lee sounds out MAS MD Ravi Menon on the excitement over...
SFF x Switch 2020 Ep 1: New digital banks to jazz up Singapore
In this first episode, BT's banking and finance editor Jamie Lee sounds out MAS MD Ravi Menon on the excitement over...
Daily Debrief: What Happened Today
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Private housing supply from confirmed land sale sites up 17.2% for H1 2021: MND
THE government has raised the supply of dwelling units by 17.2 per cent for the first-half 2021 government land...
Employment rose to pre-Covid levels after Singapore's 'circuit breaker'
RESIDENT employment levels bounced back to near pre-Covid levels in the third quarter after taking a big hit in June...
Singapore PMI drops marginally but remains in expansion for 5th month
SINGAPORE'S manufacturing sentiment continued to remain buoyant for the fifth straight month in November, although...
EU-Singapore trade held steady despite pandemic; both sides must 'stay the course' on free trade: Iswaran
BILATERAL trade between Singapore and the European Union has held steady this year despite the pandemic, and both...
BREAKING NEWS
More than 400 lawmakers from 34 countries back 'Make Amazon Pay' campaign
[LONDON] More than 400 lawmakers from 34 countries have signed a letter to Amazon.com boss Jeff Bezos backing a...
Indonesia eager to clinch French Rafale fighter jets deal
[PARIS] Negotiations between France and Indonesia for the purchase of 48 French Rafale fighter jets are advancing at...
Lufthansa adds flights as confined Germans plot festive breaks
[BERLIN] Deutsche Lufthansa will expand its Christmas flight schedule after a surge in bookings from German tourists...
Ryanair agrees to buy 75 737 MAX jets in boost for Boeing
[SEATTLE] Budget airline Ryanair on Thursday ordered 75 additional Boeing 737 MAX jets with a catalogue value of US$...
US service sector activity slows to 6-month low in November
[WASHINGTON] US services industry activity slowed to a six-month low in November amid widespread restrictions on...
EDITOR'S CHOICE
HDB 'lottery' conundrum: analysts weigh in on ways to mitigate it
WHEN certain HDB flats in the Dawson and Boon Tiong area completed their five-year minimum occupation period (MOP)...
MAS nudges financial firms on local high-tech skills transfers
THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is drilling down to the local mix in technology units of financial...
It's a bumpy road for SingPost in the e-commerce arena
SINGAPORE Post (SingPost) is having some trouble generating profits from its growing e-commerce logistics business,...
LIFESTYLE
Charting the way forward for Putien
AT 13, while most of his peers were running across soccer fields, Fong Chak Ka was doing a different sort of running...
Get the year-end celebrations going
IT'S beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and even if it's not the most wonderful time of the year, this is a...
Salted & Hung ups its culinary game
IN the manufactured restaurant hierarchy of Singapore, we all know who the stars are, and not just by the ones they'...
ASEAN BUSINESS
Half of Singapore consumers prefer to shop local to help Covid-hit firms: poll
AROUND half of Singapore consumers prefer to shop at local businesses to help them recover from the business fallout...
GARAGE
Facebook accused of squeezing rival startups in virtual reality
[WASHINGTON] Virtual-reality startups are accusing Facebook of using a familiar playbook to muscle out rivals in...
Lifestyle
Men In Blue
An exhibition on policing Singapore in the last 200 years.
What's Up This Week
It's beginning to taste a lot like Christmas, and old-faithful Cold Storage has a list of traditional favourites and...
Salted & Hung ups its culinary game
IN the manufactured restaurant hierarchy of Singapore, we all know who the stars are, and not just by the ones they'...
Get the year-end celebrations going
IT'S beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and even if it's not the most wonderful time of the year, this is a...
STOCKS
US: S&P 500 opens flat
[NEW YORK] The S&P 500 opened largely flat on Thursday as hopes of a swift COVID-19 vaccine-driven recovery and...
No change to STI constituents
THERE are no changes to the Straits Times Index (STI) constituents following the December quarterly review.
Singapore stocks rebound from Wednesday's loss, STI up 0.41%
DESPITE opening lower on Thursday, Singapore shares picked up ground as the day progressed to end in positive...
Malaysia: Shares close higher on Thursday
MALAYSIA share prices closed higher on Thursday with the FTSE Bursa Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Composite Index up 29.54...
Hong Kong: Stocks end the day higher
[HONG KONG] Hong Kong shares finished with gains on Thursday, in line with a broad advance across Asia, boosted by a...
Europe: Stock markets steady at open
[LONDON] European stocks steadied at the open Thursday, as traders weighed Covid vaccine hopes against rising...
BT WEEKLY
Gearing up for the unexpected
THIS WEEK'S TOPIC: What has changed the most for your business this year?
Medtecs strategises to be more than a one-hit pandemic wonder
AS nations struggled to deal with the Covid-19 crisis earlier this year, Medtecs International Corp - a Singapore-...
Restaurant industry has yet to tap full potential of technology, say industry players
THE restaurant industry has digitalised at an unprecedented rate amid the Covid-19 pandemic, but restaurateurs still...
Digitise services to meet client's expectations
BUSINESS-to-business (B2B) customers are increasingly expecting a business-to-consumer (B2C) experience, said...
Lombard Odier survey of ultra wealthy cites sustainability as key trend
THE majority of ultra wealthy people believe sustainability is a trend that is here to stay, but they have doubts on...
Body blow: Singapore fitness players still reeling from Covid suckerpunch
IT WAS 11.59am on a Friday and Mabel Chua was getting ready to book a spin class at Ground Zero. It’s fastest...
Why spotting "hidden influencers" at work matters
WHEN one thinks of influencers these days, it is usually in a less-than-flattering light. Often dismissed as jobless...
Get the year-end celebrations going
IT'S beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and even if it's not the most wonderful time of the year, this is a...
FOCUS
M&C reports spike in bookings for Singapore, London hotels ahead of holiday season
CITY Developments Limited's (CDL) subsidiary Millennium & Copthorne Hotels announced on Thursday that its hotels...
Singapore banks boost support for micro businesses
SINGAPORE banks have ramped up support for micro enterprises with collateral-free loans, they said on Wednesday.
JL Family Office unveils boutique property investment firm
JL FAMILY Office has launched a boutique property investment firm, The Land Managers Holdings, with S$250 million...
Equipping workers with digital skills for a new future: SkillsFuture Forum 2020 panel
Q: Singapore has been looking at reskilling and retraining for a long time. What's really different this time with...
THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION
For the love of science
SMACK in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic in May, Liz Henderson was asked to step up and lead Merck Biopharma...
Connecting Cloud to Asean
THE year 2020 has been dominated by Covid-19 and economic volatility, but for Alibaba Group vice-president Lancelot...
Fuelling the future
IN A world where renewables are gaining increasing stature, environmentalists might look askance at firms that...
Global strategist
IZUMI Nakamitsu comes across as an easy-going and motherly figure, belying her position and reputation as one of the...
READ OUR STORIES ON SGSME.SG
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