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Sias marks 20 years with funding still a key question
AS the Security Investors Association (Singapore), or Sias, marks 20 years of...
Hour Glass co-founder Jannie Chan declared bankrupt
JANNIE Chan Siew Lee, the co-founder of mainboard-listed luxury watch retailer The...
No budget for a S$100m super penthouse? There're 5 others in Singapore up for sale
OUT of the 11 super penthouses around the world now on the market, six are in...
Singapore workers tell researchers they lack expertise and job-training opportunities
THREE reports released on Wednesday have painted a less-than-rosy picture for employee...
Startups can speed up growth with aid from Accelerating Asia
STARTUPS around Asia are set to springboard their businesses through Accelerating Asia...
COE prices end lower, with 10% drop for cars
CERTIFICATE of entitlement (COE) prices ended lower across the board at the latest...
Brace for culinary Oscars here next week
WHAT does it take to be the best restaurant in the world?
COMPANIES & MARKETS
Visa aims to halve its global fraud rate by 2025
PAYMENTS giant Visa plans to halve its global fraud rate by 2025, having been using...
Dual-listed Fortune Reit to delist from Singapore Exchange
HONG Kong and Singapore dual-listed Fortune Reit will delist from the mainboard of the...
DBS shares add 2.5% in heavy Wednesday trading
IT was a risk-on day for the local bourse, and DBS Group Holdings got an extra boost,...
Corporate digest
YANLORD Land sold 283 apartment units during its first launch over the weekend at...
Nomura jumps 11% on US$1.4b share buyback, governance tweaks
NOMURA Holdings Inc surged the most in more than two years in Tokyo trading after it...
New Silkroutes: New dawn or distraction?
SHARES of New Silkroutes Group (NSG) perked up when it said it would divest its oil...
Bitcoin's rally fails to translate into gains for Asia crypto stocks
THIS year's resurgence of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has yet to translate into...
China online pharmacy Ecmoho plans US listing
ECMOHO, an online marketplace for drugs and supplements, is planning a US initial...
Rate cut hopes drive further STI gains
JUDGING from recent sessions, most investors seem sold into thinking that rate cuts by...
Brokers' take
From recent high (S$28.64) to recent low (S$24.01), DBS's share price has come off by...
Draghi's U-turn sends euro to two-week low
THE dollar traded near two-week highs against the euro on Wednesday as investors...
REAL ESTATE
Indonesia luxe home builders get boost from new tax limit
INDONESIA just made it cheaper for buyers to own an expensive house by raising the...
10 plots in Lim Chu Kang for sale by public tender
TEN land parcels for food farming at Lim Chu Kang were put up for sale by public...
Chongqing's high-rises buck downtrend in China
IN MANY Chinese cities, government restrictions have cooled formerly feverish property...
Google takes US$1b step to ease housing crisis it fuelled
BACK in 1998, Google paid just US$1,700 a month to rent its first office - half a home...
Berlin's ballooning rents to be frozen for five years
BERLIN'S city government decided on Tuesday to freeze rents for five years, heeding...
BANKING & FINANCE
Deutsche Bank weighs shake-up as CEO plans purge of top ranks
DEUTSCHE Bank chief executive officer Christian Sewing is planning sweeping changes to...
Trump pressures Fed's Powell: 'Let's see what he does'
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday kept up pressure on the head of the Federal...
ENERGY & COMMODITIES
Global oil demand growth estimates lurch ever lower
GLOBAL oil demand growth is slowing. That is the view of all three major oil...
New York passes its own Green New Deal with aggressive targets
NEW York's Senate has passed the state's own version of the Green New Deal - a climate...
Canadian Premier approves controversial pipeline expansion
THE Canadian government on Tuesday approved a controversial pipeline expansion project...
The world will get half its power from wind and solar by 2050
NEARLY half the world's electricity will come from renewable energy by 2050 as costs...
TECHNOLOGY
Huawei's woes present huge opportunities for Ericsson and Nokia
OVER the past two decades, China's Huawei Technologies Co has come to dominate the...
Activists urge Google to break itself up before regulators act
SHAREHOLDER activists want Google parent Alphabet Inc to break itself up before...
Blackstone chief donates £150 million to Oxford University
THE head of private equity firm Blackstone has pledged £150 million (S$258 million) to...
Rising cost of Nasa rocket a threat to Trump's moon mission
THE rocket Nasa plans to use to get astronauts to the moon by 2024 has for years...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise moves to subscription model, chasing Amazon.com
HEWLETT Packard Enterprise Co (HPE) will make all its products available through...
CONSUMER
China halts pork imports from 3rd Canadian firm
CHINA will block pork imports from a third Canadian firm after a shipment was found to...
China runs out of cold storage space for meat imports amid mass cull
CHINA'S scramble to import as much meat as possible to compensate for the drop in pork...
Searching Europe's rivers for source of microplastics
"MICROBEADS! A blue one - and a pink one!" Armed with a pair of tweezers, Jean-...
Varying vaccine trust leaves populations vulnerable: study
TRUST in vaccines - one of the world's most effective and widely-used medical products...
Rihanna opens New York pop-up shop for her Fenty label
ROLLING out her concept of fashion that is not a slave to the seasons or the shackles...
TRANSPORT
Skytrax names Qatar Airways Best Airline for record fifth time
QATAR AIRWAYS has been named this year's World's Best Airline at Skytrax's World...
Airbus seeks more orders for new A321XLR plane after Boeing's IAG coup
AIRBUS, reeling from the potential loss of a major customer for its bestselling...
Air New Zealand CEO resigns, weighs career in politics
AIR New Zealand Ltd's chief executive Christopher Luxon is stepping down in September...
Istanbul's new airport a boost to budget rival instead of Turkey's flag carrier
ISTANBUL'S new airport was meant to benefit Turkey's flag carrier, but it boosted its...
GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY
A murky path towards the UK premiership?
A LACKLUSTRE Tory leader debate on Tuesday revealed that none of the five candidates...
Japan's exports slide for 6th month as trade troubles knock demand
JAPAN'S exports fell for a sixth straight month in May as China-bound shipments of...
US, China rekindle trade talks ahead of Trump-Xi G-20 meeting
CHINA and the United States are rekindling trade talks ahead of a meeting next week...
Trump launches re-election campaign, casts himself as victim
US President Donald Trump formally launched his 2020 re-election campaign on Tuesday,...
Xi pens friendship letter to North Korea before rare visit
XI Jinping will burnish China's fragile alliance with North Korea by making his first...
LIFE & CULTURE
Spanish designer fetes the gender-bender gladiator
IT WAS not quite the return of the toga, but Spanish creative director of Palomo Spain...
DBS 2019 grant for social enterprises opens
APPLICATIONS for the 2019 cycle of the DBS Foundation Social Enterprise Grant have...
OCBC Cycle 2019 certified as first Eco Event in Singapore
OCBC BANK'S signature OCBC Cycle 2019 has become the first event here to earn the...
OPINION
Facebook's Libra will not help the unbanked
FOR the last century, new communications technologies - radio, television, VCRs, the...
Trump is failing the little guy. The Dems should milk this
I LOVE the poorly educated" - so declared Donald Trump back in February 2016, after a...
Narrative of strong global growth usurped by anxiety and slowdown
THE rosy narrative of a strong revival in the global economy that was shaped by upbeat...
The many facets of UK's Boris Johnson
IT is not as if the British nation or, for that matter, any even half-awake observer...
Secure collaboration tools are a basic necessity for digital transformation
IN today's business environment, data is being shared across messaging platforms at...
After a wild half-decade, EU prepares for 2020s
EUROPEAN presidents and prime ministers meet for a landmark summit on Thursday and...
BREAKING NEWS
US: Dovish Fed sends Wall street higher, S&P 500 hits record intraday high
[BENGLAURU] The S&P 500 hit a record intraday high soon after the market opened on Thursday as investors took...
EU nations aim high with plan to tax air travel
[PARIS] The Netherlands and France are trying to convince fellow European nations at a conference in The Hague to...
Del Monte Q4 earnings double to US$6.3m on stronger US margins
FOOD and beverage player Del Monte saw earnings more than double to US$6.3 million for the fourth quarter ended...
Britain broke the law on Saudi arms exports, court rules
[LONDON] Britain broke the law by allowing arms sales to Saudi Arabia that might have been used in Yemen's war, a...
Foreigners continue to remain net sellers of Japan stocks for sixth week
[BENGALURU] Foreigners continued to exit Japanese stocks for the sixth consecutive week that ended June 14 due to...
BOE warns on heightened no-deal Brexit prospect
[LONDON] The prospect of Britain crashing out of the European Union without a deal has risen since last month, the...
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