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Investors of SDRs listed on the SGX can have their securities under custody with the Central Depository, rather than with a broker if they were to buy the stock directly from an overseas exchange.
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What are Singapore Depository Receipts and how do they benefit investors? 

SINGAPORE investors can now directly invest in three Hong Kong blue-chip stocks – Ping An Insurance, Meituan and Xiaomi – via newly launched Singapore Depository Receipts (SDRs).

Ong Beng Seng, managing director and controlling shareholder of Singapore-listed Hotel Properties Ltd,  faces charges of allegedly abetting a public servant in obtaining gifts.
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If convicted, can Ong Beng Seng remain as Hotel Properties director?

Under Companies Act, property tycoon can be disqualified from serving as HPL director if convicted on fraud or dishonesty charges and imprisoned for three or more months   

A rendering of an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) craft built by eVTOL player Eve, which went public in 2022.
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Air taxis, drones, green planes: What is advanced air mobility?

IMAGINE commuting from Jurong to the Central Business District during rush hour, but in a fraction of the time, at the same price as a taxi – and by air. That’s the promise of advanced air mobility (A...

Five of the people arrested include (clockwise, from top left) Su Haijin, Su Baolin, Wang Dehai, Su Jianfeng and Su Wenqiang.

Who are the 10 charged after the billion-dollar anti-money laundering raid in Singapore?

ONE of the 10 people arrested in one of Singapore’s biggest anti-money laundering operations had lived in a sprawling good class bungalow (GCB) in Ewart Park that housed a golf simulator and a high-en...

The stapled group's gross revenue is up 1.7 per cent at S$63.3 million for the half-year period.

Frasers Hospitality Trust H1 DPS falls 13.7% to S$0.01091 on higher finance costs

Net property income is down 1.3 per cent at S$44.7 million from S$45.2 million

Demand for T-bills remains strong as they continue to yield higher returns amid the high interest rate environment.

Latest Singapore one-year T-bill offers cut-off yield of 3.58%

S$10.1 billion in applications have been made for a total amount allotted of S$5.1 billion, putting the bid-to-cover ratio at 1.97

Tesla also offers limited-time preferential financing plans that could save up to 16,600 yuan for purchases of Model Y.

Tesla rolls out new incentives in China as price war escalates

TESLA unveiled new incentives, including insurance subsidies, on Friday (Mar 1) to woo consumers in the world’s largest auto market, where the US electric vehicle (EV) giant is in a protracted price w...

Hertz’s new owners were making a fully charged bet to swap Hertz’s petrol-powered rental-car fleet for EVs.

How Hertz’s bet on Teslas went horribly sideways

LIKE anyone habituated to the excesses of Wall Street, Tom Wagner and Greg O’Hara knew how to throw a party.

McDonald’s fourth-quarter sales missed expectations as growth decelerated, hurt in part by the conflict in the Middle East.

McDonald’s to buy Israel franchise that became flashpoint in Hamas war

MCDONALD’S agreed to acquire its restaurants in Israel from operator Alonyal, bringing the local chain in-house months after it became a point of contention in the early days of the Israel-Hamas war.