TOP STORIES
Back to square one? Why are “asset-light” players in the sharing economy buying up property and cars?
FOUR years ago, an advertising and public relations executive penned these words about...
1st phase of Sentosa-Brani Master Plan to be completed by 2022
CONSTRUCTION will start by year-end on the long-awaited redevelopment of resort island...
Mitsubishi says Singapore-based oil trader lost US$320m in unauthorised trades
MITSUBISHI Corp, Japan's biggest trading house by revenue, said on Friday a trader at...
Business leaders can play a bigger role in fostering social cohesion: DPM Heng
BUSINESS leaders need to do more than ever before to help tackle the three great...
MBA in crisis? In Singapore, it's less clear-cut
BUSINESS schools in the United States may be seeing declines in MBA applications, but...
Former Prudential top agency manager received S$15.3m sign-on bonus from Aviva, court told
AVIVA dangled S$15.3 million as a sign-on bonus to Prudential Assurance Company...
Singapore may fare worse than Asean peers in the next global crash
SOUTH-EAST ASIA is more vulnerable to a downturn than it was during the last global...
Policymakers need to reduce man-made vulnerabilities: Lagarde
THE former head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, warned on...
Employer-provided medical costs in Singapore to rise by 10% in 2020: report
EMPLOYER-PROVIDED medical benefit costs in Singapore are expected to jump by 10 per...
PM Lee to meet Trump on week-long visit to New York
PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong will arrive in New York on Saturday for a week-long...
Petronas to beef up security at its plants after Saudi oil attacks
MALAYSIA'S state-owned energy giant Petronas said it would beef up security at its...
Japan consumer inflation cools to 2-year low in blow to BOJ
JAPAN'S core consumer inflation slowed to a new two-year low in August due to lower...
Japan's largest bank MUFG set to cut workforce in Singapore and Hong Kong
JAPAN'S largest lender, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), is preparing to cut...
COMPANIES & MARKETS
Singapore M&A soars 70.6% to US$88.3b in 2019 to date
MERGER and acquisitions (M&A) involving Singapore companies soared 70.6 per cent...
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres prices S$225m bonds due 2024 at 3.59%
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), a Singapore-headquartered data centre...
Ezion says there won't be material impact from POSH JV's loan default
THE default on US$27.6 million worth of debt, as well as any cross defaults, by a PACC...
Motorola extends lease at Cromwell E-Reit's Poland property
CROMWELL European Real Estate Investment Trust (Cromwell E-Reit) on Friday announced...
India slashes corporate tax rate for local companies
INDIA cut tax on local businesses to one of the lowest rates in Asia, while providing...
Corporate digest
OCBC has become the first Singapore bank to join JPMorgan's live blockchain service -...
Compliance, strong risk management key to business growth
THE Securities Investors Association (Singapore) is celebrating its 20th Anniversary...
Airbnb says it plans to go public in 2020
AIRBNB announced on Thursday that it plans to go public in 2020, becoming one of the...
In markets' tussle with central banks, neutral is the new hawkish
GLOBAL investors are urging central bankers further and further down the monetary...
China sovereign fund cautious of US investment amid trade war: CIC president
CHINA Investment Corp (CIC) on Friday said the Sino-US trade war has made it more...
Geopolitical tensions limit gains; STI ends flat
INVESTORS found their attentions divided by various geopolitical tensions on Friday,...
Brokers' take
Manulife US Reit > Buy (maintained)
REAL ESTATE
Chinese demand drives Singapore luxe apartments to hit 11-year high
SALES of Singapore apartments worth at least S$10 million have hit an 11-year high,...
US existing-home sales rise to highest in over a year
SALES of previously owned US homes rose in August to the highest in more than a year...
Giant art project transforms East German housing blocks
AN ENDURING reminder of the communist era, the vast, concrete "Plattenbau" tower...
Manulife US Reit raises US$142.7m from placement, preferential offering
MANULIFE US Reit's private placement and preferential offering have netted gross...
Blackstone Reit's success lures global funds to India
BLACKSTONE-BACKED real estate investment trust's (Reit) successful India trading debut...
TRANSPORT
A legacy brand is slowly fading away
BUICK, the rock upon which General Motors was built more than a century ago, appears...
GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY
Shift in focus from 'democracy' to 'good governance' needed
THE world is in turmoil and one of the biggest questions on the global agenda is the...
LIFE & CULTURE
For 5-time F1 champ Hamilton, that winning feeling never gets old
LEWIS Hamilton always looks forward to his annual trip to Singapore, and it's hardly a...
Examining the role of nature and nurture in the making of an athlete
IS THERE one right way to rear and shape a young runner?
On a wing and a prayer
2019 has been a big year of advancements for notebooks as a whole. But while big...
The completely correct guide to getting off a plane
ON a Spirit Airlines flight to Los Angeles earlier this year, I shrank into my seat as...
We are falling more in love with bad news
PEOPLE can't tear their eyes away from bad news. A 2014 study by researchers at McGill...
What you should know about the various types of vaccines
I AM often asked about vaccines by my patients; most of the queries pertain to travel...
THE RAFFLES CONVERSATION
Powering social good
ASK Kojin Nakakita to talk about himself and the chairman of Hitachi Asia immediately...
INVESTING & WEALTH
Real estate may be yielding less than you thought
AS the old adage goes, you have to spend money to make money. This is certainly true...
Play to win: investing in the mobile gaming sector
HERE'S a game you can play - the next time you're out, whether on the train or waiting...
Gold supported as global central banks adopt dovish stance
THE US Federal Reserve has lowered the target range for its key interest rates to 1.75...
Bonds that eat your money
THE phrase 'This Time it's Different' is described as the four most dangerous words in...
OPINION
Challenging the conventional notion of meritocracy
A RECENT article by BT journalist Marissa Lee highlighted the growing anxiety about...
BREAKING NEWS
Walmart ending sales of e-cigarettes
[AFP] Retail giant Walmart said Friday it would stop selling e-cigarettes in its US stores amid a growing crackdown...
Greta Thunberg hopes climate strikes will be 'social tipping point'
[NEW YORK] Teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg told AFP that she hoped Friday's massive worldwide climate...
Trump removes tariffs on hundreds of Chinese goods
[WASHINGTON] US President Donald Trump on Friday temporarily removed tariffs on more than 400 Chinese goods that he...
China's Xi condemns oil attacks, urges restraint in call with Saudi king: Xinhua
[BEIJING] Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday condemned weekend strikes on Saudi Arabian oil facilities, state...
Chinese agriculture officials cancel US farm visits
[WASHINGTON] A Chinese agricultural delegation cancelled planned visits to farms in Montana and Nebraska that had...
Oil slips on trade fears but soars in week after Saudi production attacked
[NEW YORK] Oil prices eased on Friday on renewed concern over the US-China trade war, but futures still posted...
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