Srinidhi Ragavendran

Harry is a nine-year-old Singapore special now housed at Causes for Animals (Singapore), one of the animal shelters at The Animal Lodge. With the tenancies for the animal shelters there expiring, these tenants are anxious about their future.
BRUNCH

Tight quarters, ticking clock: Local animal shelters face expiring tenancies – again

Potential relocations, stringent land-zoning laws and competition for space put animal shelters in a state of limbo

A view of the Shibuya crossing in Tokyo. “Singapore companies are increasingly drawn to Japan and keen to leverage its established business ecosystem to collaborate with other multinational firms there,” says EnterpriseSG's Yeoh Mei Ling.

Sun rising for Singapore businesses breaking into Japan market

From on-demand transport to fresh-juice vending machines, home-grown players bring their innovations to this traditionally tricky market

Despite the risks of AI, nearly half of the SMEs polled say that it had or will have a particularly positive impact on their productivity.

One in three Singapore SMEs expect AI to replace or take over jobs: survey 

Less than half of respondents said they were fully informed regarding possible cyber risks 

The survey finds that many businesses are keeping a close eye on the impact of rising inflation and higher operating costs.

8 in 10 firms in S-E Asia, Greater China positive about business environment: UOB survey

Fewer than half of companies polled have implemented sustainability practices 

Minister of State for Trade and Industry Alvin Tan (left) and chief executive officer of LionsBot, Dylan Ng at the launch of LionsBot's new S$12 million facility in Kranji.

Singapore’s first RoboCluster launched for facilities management, to turn R&D into market solutions

Clusters are also planned for the manufacturing and logistics sector, and for healthcare

The family business was started in 2007. From left: Kenneth Koh, chief executive officer; Koh Hak Boon, founder; and Kevin Koh, chief operations officer.

B2K’s second-generation leaders paw a new path in pet products

Once a distributor of such products, the company has since launched its own brands, such as Kit Cat

The institutions tracked by the index include six from Singapore: the CPF Board, OCBC, DBS, MAS, GIC and Temasek.

Singapore financial institutions consistent with global trends for gender balance: report

OF the institutions tracked in this year’s global Gender Balance Index (GBI), 63 appointed either a new governor or a new chief executive – but only nine of these new appointees, or 14 per cent, were ...

(From left) Wong Pei Ting, correspondent, The Business Times, moderates a panel with participants Mike Ng, group chief sustainability officer, OCBC; Amy Khor, Senior Minister of State for Sustainability and the Environment and Transport; Cherine Fok, partner, head of Our Impact Plan, KPMG in Singapore; Mark Lee, chief executive officer, Sing Lun Holdings.
ENTERPRISE 50

Nominations open for 2024 Enterprise 50 Awards

NOMINATIONS opened on Wednesday (Mar 27) for this year’s Enterprise 50 (E50) Awards, which recognise the 50 most enterprising, privately owned Singapore companies. Nominations close on Jul 1, and the ...

Lim Tian Wee, founder of Gryphon, hopes to attract younger customers with a new line of prepared beverages.

From tea bags to canned beverages, Gryphon brews a new identity

KNOWN for its tea bags and loose-leaf tea, Gryphon Tea now offers canned tea-based beverages and is rebranding simply as “Gryphon” – in a further step away from its parent company, tea wholesaler Lim ...

Singapore's overall gender pay gap is 14.3 per cent in 2023, down from 16.3 per cent in 2018.

Health, manufacturing sectors continue to lead Singapore’s gender pay gap

WHILE Singapore’s gender pay gap has narrowed, it is striking that the industries with the most significant disparity five years ago still remain the same.