ASME

Asme launches programme to help SMEs form strategic partnerships; expands market access initiatives to Asia

For 2026, the association’s newly elected council will focus on helping tap inorganic growth opportunities and enter new markets

Besides aiding SMEs, the centre will collect data on real-world AI use cases and user challenges. This material will be used to shape future AI initiatives and policies.

Free AI workshops, resources for SMEs at new AI Centre of Excellence

The collaboration between Asme and ITE will also give students exposure to AI for business purposes

Asme president Ang Yuit, speaking at the AI Festival Asia 2025, says more initiatives are coming up this year, which will be announced in due time.

Asme partners ITE, two polytechnics to help SMEs build AI capabilities

This collaboration includes giving these smaller businesses subsidised access to artificial intelligence tools

Asme president Ang Yuit says Internationalisation remains a key challenge for smaller SMEs.
SINGAPORE BUDGET 2025

More funding for training, digitalisation among Asme’s Budget 2025 proposals

The government could also help companies’ training efforts, the association suggests

Temasek Polytechnic principal and chief executive Peter Lam (left) and ASME president Ang Yuit. The two parties will work together to advance sustainability efforts among SMEs.

ASME inks MOU with Temasek Poly to help SMEs build sustainability capabilities

A business transformation programme will be launched to help companies curate and fine-tune sustainability road maps

The four-day work week may work in some sectors but might not suit smaller firms or industries with round-the-clock operations.

Singapore businesses doubt recent survey findings on employers’ openness to a four-day work week

In the survey of fewer than 100 companies, nearly seven in 10 found a four-day week ‘feasible’

The Fed started hiking rates in March 2022, with ripple effects on markets and the economy around the world.
FED DECISION

Impending Fed rate cut offers Singapore firms silver lining amid cloud of global uncertainties

AS the US Federal Reserve prepares to cut interest rates, Singapore businesses are weighing the potential benefits of cheaper financing against global economic uncertainties, industry observers say.

Asme president Ang Yuit says the partnership will allow member companies to provide direct feedback to NYP on the job market and skills needed in the industry.

Asme partners Nanyang Polytechnic to help SMEs develop sustainability, AI, cybersecurity capabilities 

The three-year partnership will allow the association’s member companies to gain access to the school’s suite of resources

From left: Chew Lee Ching, chairman, SPBA 2024 organising committee; Dr Mark Fernandes, director, Gutcare; Dr Jawn Lim, deputy cluster director, Singapore Institute of Technology; Fu Yong Hong, chief executive, Greendot Singapore; and Quek Lee Kiang, co-chairman, SPBA 2024 organising committee at the launch event.

Applications open for 22nd Singapore Prestige Brand Award

This year’s theme for the awards is ‘Branding into the Smart Future’

Ang Yuit has been elected unopposed to Asme’s top role for a two-year term last December.

New Asme chief targets better policy recommendations, collaboration and growth abroad

IN TODAY’S high-cost environment, Singapore’s small businesses can survive – and even thrive – by collaborating among themselves and looking for opportunities abroad, suggested Ang Yuit, president of ...