The Business Times
business-time-50
SUBSCRIBERS

Call of the wild: Singapore businesses still keen on emerging markets

Overseas trips, trade fairs set to resume despite pandemic hiatus, global uncertainties

google-preferred-sourceAdd BT as a preferred source
Annabeth Leow

Annabeth Leow

Published Tue, May 3, 2022 · 05:50 AM
    • Of the overseas projects that Enterprise Singapore facilitated for 315 companies in 2020, some 30 per cent of the deals involved the Middle East and Africa; Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia; and Latin America and the Caribbean.
    • Of the overseas projects that Enterprise Singapore facilitated for 315 companies in 2020, some 30 per cent of the deals involved the Middle East and Africa; Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia; and Latin America and the Caribbean. PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO

    IT WAS late 2019, and Singapore biotech startup Stratificare was all set to begin clinical studies in partnership with experts in Mexico, for a test that might prove able to predict severe cases of dengue.

    The tie-up arose from Stratificare's participation in a business delegation accompanying Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on his official visit to that country.

    But the novel coronavirus hit – and that made it “very difficult for us to run any clinical study there”, Stratificare chief executive Anthony Chua told The Business Times.

    Emerging marketsglobal marketsEnterprise Singapore

    TRENDING NOW

    The bungalow's transacted price works out to about S$3,169 psf on the freehold land area of 23,979 sq ft.

    Shanda co-founder sells Tanglin Hill bungalow for S$76 million

    Beyond structural portfolio shifts, the study highlighted paradoxes regarding intergenerational wealth planning and succession.

    Nearly half of Apac’s wealthy expect market crash or correction, plan to rotate to cash: study

    The departure of food manufacturing operations from Singapore may not necessarily be reason for concern.

    Yeo’s, Tiger Beer and now Gardenia – flight of food manufacturing from Singapore might be just as planned

    Jumbo Group says its landlord, the National Parks Board, is studying the redevelopment of East Coast Seafood Centre in tandem with longer-term plans for the park.

    Jumbo Seafood to close flagship East Coast Seafood Centre outlet on Sep 30

    Latest T-bills Treasury Bills Results & Interest NewsLatest SSB Singapore Savings Bonds NewsLatest COE Certificate of Entitlement News
    Latest Johor-Singapore SEZ NewsLatest BTO Build To Order & Sales of Balance NewsLatest STI Straits Times Index NewsLatest SGX Dividends, Share Price NewsLatest Bonds Market NewsLatest Singapore Stocks To Buy NewsLatest Singapore Economy News
    View More