Art In The City
FROM JAN 19 to 27, the city will be awash with visual art, in locations as central as the Civic District and as...
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The property merry-go-round: anomalies in the market
IT used to be that properties in Good Class Bungalow (GCB) Areas - the most prestigious form of landed housing in...
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Mark Chan
WHEN Mark Chan was a teenager, his father took away his drawing paper and paint brushes so he would focus on the...
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BREAKING NEWS
US manufacturing output posts biggest gain in 10 months
[WASHINGTON] US manufacturing output increased by the most in 10 months in December, boosted by a surge in the...
US: Wall St opens higher on trade hopes, upbeat manufacturing data
[NEW YORK] US stocks opened higher on Friday and were set for their fourth week of gains on hopes that a bitter trade...
Metech International selling Malaysian e-waste business to general manager
CATALIST-LISTED Metech International is selling its Malaysian electronic waste management (EWM) subsidiary to that unit...
Saudi Arabia in talks to build an oil refinery in South Africa
[JOHANNESBURG] Saudi Arabia is in talks to build a crude-oil refinery in South Africa as part of a pledge last year to...
Hyflux warns perp, pref holders they will lose everything in liquidation
WATER cleaning firm Hyflux faced its grey-haired creditors on Friday for the second time since it filed for bankruptcy...
Retro Rock
When Ping Tay appointed interior designer Mikael Teh of Monocot Studio to design her apartment near Little India, she...
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Fuss-free cooking at Teppan Kappou Kenji
IT'S funny how similar restaurants tend to gravitate towards the same location, to the point that you can almost...
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Rolls-Royce is on a roll
Customers like that not only exist, they helped Rolls-Royce sell 4,107 cars in 2018, the company's chairman and...
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Of timing and catching a 'Rising Star'
A fund manager had targeted September 2018 as the launch date for his new fund. But due to operational issues, the...
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Curtain Raisers
Aside from two new “reverse panda” TimeWalker Chronograph watches, Montblanc also unveiled four new novelties that are...
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On The Trail Of White Gold
THE HUNTER WORKS alone - in the dead of night, armed with a cloak and a faint light, and a dog as his guide. When his...
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Why analyst forecasts are lessons in futility
WITH the end of 2018 and the start of 2019, comes the usual barrage of reports on strategists' stock market...
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Don't burn your bridges at work
IT'S probably not a surprise that January tends to be the time when people hand in their resignation letters -...
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President Halimah's address on board-diversity journey bang on
SINGAPORE'S drive to increase the participation of women on the boards of listed companies has been extended to...
Is it time for government to take ownership of telcos' infrastructure?
NETLINK NBN Trust has gained lustre of late. Analysts, who have a mixed view of the telco market as Australia's...
Making the most of AGM season as an investor
THE year's busiest period for investors and companies alike is just around the corner, as corporates with a Dec 31...
Singapore banks may serve up enough of a lukewarm gruel
NOT too hot, not too cold - and so it is when it comes to the Singapore banks, which may see a Goldilocks year amid...
EDITOR'S CHOICE
ASEAN BUSINESS
Refreshing your people management style
PREVIOUSLY, management worked on the principle that people perform best when they are organised. On production lines,...
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GARAGE
Insurers tap startup platforms to open new distribution channels
LURED by the promise of a large user base and a well of data to tap, insurance companies are tying up with non-...
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STOCKS
MARKET TODAY:
US: Wall St opens higher on trade hopes, upbeat manufacturing data
[NEW YORK] US stocks opened higher on Friday and were set for their fourth week of gains on hopes that a bitter trade...
Malaysia shares close higher on Friday
MALAYSIA share prices closed higher on Friday with the FTSE Bursa Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Composite Index up 9.25 points...
Singapore shares end higher on Friday, STI adds 0.3%
SINGAPORE shares closed higher on Friday, with the Straits Times Index (STI) up 9.90 points or 0.3 per cent to 3,224.34...
Europe: Trade war hopes lift shares to early December highs
[LONDON] European shares opened higher on Friday and reached their highest level since early December as new-found hope...
Hong Kong: Stocks end week with gains
[HONG KONG] Hong Kong stocks finished another healthy week on a positive note Friday as investors cheered a report that...
Australia shares rise for 4th straight day, led by resources, financials
[BENGALURU] Australian shares rose for a fourth consecutive day on Friday, scaling fresh two-month peaks as renewed...
BT WEEKLY
It's your friendly neighbourhood ISOTeam
THE pundits have divined that Singapore will hold its General Election in a year or so, and that typically means more...
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THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION
Jan 12, 2019
Cyber sleuth
The way to fight cyber crime is to ensure that the perpetrators and their backers face repercussions, says FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia, who's been at the frontline battles against hackers.
Jan 5, 2019
Going audit-gital
KPMG chairman Bill Thomas tells how technology has impacted the work of auditors, and delivers an impassioned response to recent criticism of scandals in the accounting profession.
Dec 29, 2018
Customise & connect
High-fashion label Coach turns the concept of luxury on its head, eschewing the top-down approach in favour of a more inclusive customer experience, says the American brand's CEO and president Joshua Schulman.
Dec 22, 2018
Going green, driving development
From climate change to global inequality, businesses must become part of the solution, not problem, to today's big challenges, says Achim Steiner, head of the United Nations Development Programme.
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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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