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Emerging Enterprise
EMERGING ENTERPRISE AWARD 2025

Transforming everyday life through creativity and innovation

Over the years, Dr Ng Chin Siau, founder of Q&M Dental Group, developed Singapore’s largest dental chain with diagnostics, dental education and lab capabilities.
ASEAN Business

Serial entrepreneurs are reshaping South-east Asia’s business landscape

BT
Career Guide
THRIVE NEWSLETTER

So you want to be your own boss? Read this first

From left: Alicia Hong, CEO and co-founder of Digi-Up!, Nicholas Cheng, co-founder of Tracework.ai and VideoPulse, Kit Yong, founder of Forte Biotech and Vivien Shiao BT's young audience editor and the moderator of the panel discussion.
Thrive

Student years are the best time to test startup dreams, say young founders at fireside chat

Session on menu engineering and cost management at Excelerate.sg’s training kitchen. Beyond acquiring operational skills, workshop participants will learn to develop their unique business models.
Singapore

New workshops help aspiring hawkers find winning business recipes

Cathy Kim and her 26-year-old son Jeon Joon Hyeong have a small business making and selling hand-made ceramics.
Lifestyle
TAKING HEART

YWCA launches accelerator to help female entrepreneurs scale their business

ASN noted that while profitability in the industry remains challenging, interest is growing, particularly among home-based F&B operators and corporate professionals looking to enter the space. PHOTO: BT FILE
Singapore

New workshop to dish out lessons for aspiring F&B entrepreneurs

Instead of simply accepting higher business failure rates as a sign of healthy risk-taking, we should focus on creating a system that enables entrepreneurs to succeed in the first place.
Opinion & Features

Failure not always a stepping stone to success

The National Parks Board (NParks) opened the 0.5 ha Pek Kio Park on Jan 18, 2025.
Opinion & Features

A living laboratory for future urban solutions

Goh Aik Chuan, founder and managing partner of Garlic Equity Capital, aims to acquire an SME in Singapore or Malaysia by mid-2027.
Opinion & Features
BRUNCH

A shortcut to the C-suite: MBA grads raise ‘search funds’ to buy SMEs in Singapore

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