TOP STORIES
HDB flats on prime Keppel Club site: Premium prices or tweaked sales terms?
THE prospect of having public housing on the plum Keppel Club site after its lease...
Up to 2 points total CPF hike for older workers in Jan 2021
CENTRAL Provident Fund (CPF) contribution hikes for older workers will kick off on Jan...
Greater Southern Waterfront a boost to likes of KepCorp, MCT
MAPLETREE Commercial Trust (MCT) and Keppel Corp are well-positioned to benefit from...
SRS account start date determines when penalty waiver kicks in
WHEN can account holders withdraw funds from voluntary Supplementary Retirement Scheme...
Public Service gets ready for longer careers for workforce
THE public service will be rolling out more programmes to get its workers ready for...
Re-employment helps workers ease into retirement, not meant to build up nest egg
THE first thing that hits me after reading the Tripartite Workgroup on Older Workers'...
Medtech hub opens with support from healthcare clusters
A NEW hub connecting startups, organisations and professionals in the healthcare...
Singapore VC fund manager among world's top performers
SINGAPORE-based East Ventures is among five firms named as the most consistently top-...
COMPANIES & MARKETS
Business update lifts Rex International shares by 14.7%
OILFIELD services firm Rex International Holding's shares jumped one cent or 14.7 per...
Yangzijiang continues run as actively traded stock for third straight session
YANGZIJIANG Shipbuilding's stock, fresh from Friday's 15.1 per cent jump, continued...
Camsing Healthcare suspends chairman
CAMSING Healthcare has suspended all administrative and executive duties and powers of...
STI rides tailwinds of PBOC rate reform
SINGAPORE equities tracked last Friday's Wall Street gains; and like its Asian...
Brokers' take
Net profit for the first half of FY2019 missed our expectations at 23 per cent of our...
Markets regain risk appetite after week of turmoil
THE euro advanced on Monday after registering its biggest weekly drop in nearly two...
Singapore dividend payout slides 11.6% to US$3.8b in Q2
DECELERATION in the world economy is beginning to take its toll on dividend payouts...
Ardmore Medical puts IPO plans on hold
ARDMORE Medical Group, which specialises in orthopaedic surgery, aesthetics and pain...
Stock market shrinkage exacerbated by Europe IPOs at decade low
IF THE lament over a shrinking equity market has been momentarily drowned out in the...
Corporate digest
THE Catalist-listed commercial and industrial real estate solutions provider has...
Changing hands
Tracking fund flows in the Singapore stock market
REAL ESTATE
Once sleepless in Singapore, now giving sweet dreams to the budget conscious
AMIT Saberwal went through many a sleepless night when he first began pitching the...
London homes' asking prices post first annual increase in 2 years
ASKING prices for London homes showed their first annual increase since 2017 this...
Westpac overdue mortgages on the rise amid soft housing market
AUSTRALIA'S Westpac Banking Corp on Monday reported a rise in the number of people...
Scottish castle in perfect condition on sale for £8m
BY the time Stephen Leach and his family bought Seton Castle in East Lothian, Scotland...
Facelift of Cairo's historic Baron Palace sparks outcry
EGYPTIAN authorities have defended renovation works at a historic Cairo palace after...
Boom time for bunker business and doomsday capitalists in the US
IN his pitch to potential buyers, American Larry Hall touts his condominium's high...
BANKING & FINANCE
China to base new lending benchmark on medium-term rates; shares rally on rate cut hopes
CHINA'S announcement of key interest rate reforms over the weekend has fuelled...
Carlsberg CEO has a warning for his peers about negative rates
THE man running Carlsberg A/S says he won't be "seduced" by negative interest rates as...
TECHNOLOGY
French startup IT school tears up the rule book
ON AN August morning in Paris, when most of the city is in an advanced state of summer...
China to boost Shenzhen's role in Greater Bay Area innovation
CHINA plans to let Shenzhen City, which borders Hong Kong, play "a key role" in...
More realistic visuals on Minecraft from Microsoft, Nvidia team-up
MICROSOFT Corp said on Monday that it will use chipmaker Nvidia Corp's real-time ray...
CONSUMER
Dutch families join 'people's farm' to counter climate change
CHICKENS roam the orchards, cows chew the cud and pigs roll in the mud on a warm day...
Manila checks for swine fever as pig deaths rise
THE Philippines has set up a crisis management team to determine if the deadly African...
TRANSPORT
Shell rolls out electric vehicle charging points at Singapore fuel stations
SHELL has become the first fuel retailer here to offer electric vehicle (EV) charging...
New guide offers Singapore maritime firms a framework for sustainability reporting
THE MARITIME and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), along with its partners, have...
Jaguar, Audi SUVs fail to dent Tesla's electric car dominance
IT'S A trope that's been around roughly as long as Elon Musk has been in the car...
LIFE & CULTURE
Good Boys ends comedy drought in Hollywood
UNIVERSAL Pictures and a gaggle of foul-mouthed 12-year-olds proved over the weekend...
Obamas' first film charts life in US factory under China bosses
THEY refer to us as the "foreigners", says a downbeat employee at an Ohio car glass...
SME
Love, Bonito and Ninja Van founders share success tips
THE need for companies to make purposeful business decisions was among the many pieces...
Commitment, capability and collaboration for the long haul
"INNOVATION is what sparks many success stories among sustainable family enterprises...
OPINION
Financial education should start as early as possible in ageing workforce
REGULAR Business Times readers would by now be familiar with findings from a financial...
A 'no-deal' Brexit is not a shoo-in
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he will not reopen Brexit negotiations unless the...
Learning from the Great Depression
WHAT is striking about the latest bouts of financial turmoil - the recent wild swings...
Beginning of the end for globalisation?
RECENT equity market volatility, including Wednesday's 800- points fall in the Dow...
Fintech Wave-2 isn't digital. It's hybrid
ASIA is the epicentre of fintech innovation, with Singapore, and India, in particular...
The US must recommit to trade
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump's trade policy has been controversial for any number of...
BREAKING NEWS
US states ready antitrust probe of tech titans: report
[SAN FRANCISCO] Top prosecutors from a group of US states are readying a joint investigation into whether major...
Baidu stock pops in late trading after sales top estimates
[HONG KONG] Baidu Inc's quarterly revenue beat analysts' estimates after China's biggest search giant managed to...
Release of Iranian tanker 'very unfortunate': Pompeo
[WASHINGTON] US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed frustration on Monday over the "very unfortunate" decision...
Alita Resources sold lithium concentrate below floor price amid challenging conditions
ALITA Resources said it had on Monday completed a shipment to buyer Jiangxi Bao Jiang Lithium Industrial Limited for...
Stocks to watch: HMI, Figtree Holdings, Hong Leong Asia, RE&S Holdings, PS Group
THE following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their shares on Tuesday:
Tokyo: Stocks open higher, tracking US rallies
[TOKYO] Tokyo stocks opened higher on Tuesday, taking a positive lead from Wall Street where stocks rose for a third...
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