Chloe Lim

Chloe Lim

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Chloe Lim is a breaking news reporter at The Business Times. She previously worked at The Edge Singapore.

When BT visited the Japan Home outlet at Westgate on Wednesday, it was engaged in a two-day “stocktaking exercise”.

Japan Home licenses Singapore retail stores to Valu$ owner Radha Exports

2026-08-20T11:58:59.000Z
UPDATED 6 hours ago
Sats posted a S$75.1 million net profit for Q1, up 6% from S$70.9 million in the same year-ago period.
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Sats slides 13.6% as investors dump shares on profit-margin squeeze

2026-08-20T09:38:10.000Z
UPDATED 8 hours ago
The core drivers of these deals are still the AI boom, and the surge in data-centre investments that come with it, analysts said.

AI, energy security needs are driving surge in South-east Asia’s energy infrastructure deals

2026-08-19T23:30:00.000Z
When BT visited the Japan Home outlet at Eastpoint Mall in Simei on Tuesday, it was conducting stocktaking.

Japan Home closing outlets; staff say Valu$ taking over operations

2026-08-19T02:53:34.000Z
OUE’s revenue is up 5.3% year on year at S$308.3 million in H1. 

Stocks to watch: Straits Trading, OUE, Hotel Properties

2026-08-17T00:32:18.000Z
Four Seasons Hotel Osaka, owned by Hotel Properties. Finance costs for the half-year rose 6.4% to S$54.3 million from S$51 million a year earlier, due to higher borrowings.

Hotel Properties falls into the red with S$39.1 million H1 net loss

2026-08-14T13:11:48.000Z
Chew Gek Khim, the company’s executive chairperson, says it has taken the opportunity to reduce debt and direct capital to its best uses.

Straits Trading H1 net loss narrows by 72.7% to S$11.1 million

2026-08-14T12:16:04.000Z
The Singapore Court of Appeal in May 2026 upheld and enforced GNC’s rights to assume former GNC store leases in full. 

DFI Retail Group to be exclusive wholesaler for GNC in Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore

2026-08-14T07:58:45.000Z
ThaiBev on Thursday reported a 1.8% dip in revenue to 254 billion baht (US$7.7 billion) for the nine months ending Jun 30, compared with the year-ago period. 

Stocks to watch: ThaiBev, Genting Singapore, First Resources, Olam Group, UMS Integration, Frencken, SBS Transit and more

2026-08-14T00:34:19.000Z
Frencken Group’s H1 revenue is down 0.8% at S$427.8 million, from S$431.4 million in the year-ago period.

Frencken H1 net profit falls 3.4% to S$19.3 million

2026-08-13T11:21:40.000Z