TOP STORIES
In nod to market, SGX seeks to scrap minimum trading price rule
THE Singapore Exchange Regulation (SGX RegCo) is formally looking at scrapping the...
MAS flags leverage risk in businesses tied to trade, building sectors
CORPORATE debt in Singapore has built up amid loose financial conditions, with pockets...
Shareholder vs employee: Who counts more?
WHICH came first, shareholders or employees? Conversations on governance rightly place...
Post-cooling measures, property prices 'closer to fundamentals'
EVEN amid the accommodative financial conditions today, price movements of properties...
20 to 35% of banks' quarterly profit at risk in direct cyber attacks
A FULL-BLOWN direct cyber attack on a bank would cost it between 20 and 35 per cent of...
Differentiating unicorns from asses
I WILL remember 2019 as the year when many unicorns were exposed as donkeys in...
Frasers Logistics, Frasers Commercial Trust make plans to merge: sources
FRASERS Logistics & Industrial Trust and Frasers Commercial Trust are planning to...
More help for businesses, PMETs in manufacturing sector
MANUFACTURERS will get increased support so they can hire staff to support their...
Singapore resident employment rate up, income growth slows
THE resident employment rate was slightly higher in June this year than in June 2018...
China speeds up 1 trillion yuan bond sale to boost slowing economy
CHINA has ordered local governments to speed up the issuance of debt earmarked for...
Dyson to move HQ to St James Power Station
BRITISH consumer electronics company Dyson has found a new home for its Singapore...
Japan retail sales dip the most since 2015 as tax hike hits demand
JAPAN'S retail sales tumbled at their fastest pace in more than four-and-a-half years...
COMPANIES & MARKETS
Ditching MTP rule is about listening to the market
IT'S not often that the Singapore Exchange reverses a rule it deemed necessary just a...
Hyflux bank lenders said to oppose adviser fees for Utico deal
SOME of Hyflux's unsecured bank lenders are reportedly objecting to the new...
RHT Health Trust manager advises unitholders to adjourn Dec 3 EGM on winding-up action
THE trustee-manager of mainboard-listed RHT Health Trust is proposing to adjourn an...
Hiap Seng calls for trading suspension amid going concern uncertainty
HIAP Seng Engineering on Thursday requested a trading suspension on its shares even as...
First Sponsor sells Amsterdam office building to associate
PROPERTY developer First Sponsor has sold its entire share capital in a wholly-owned...
Corporate digest
NAM LEE's full-year earnings dropped 18.3 per cent to S$9.8 million for the fiscal...
Oil proxies among main laggards in market
WITH oil prices falling for a second day after data unexpectedly showed US inventories...
US sparks overnight risk-off move with HK bill
THE US dollar was little changed in early London trading on Thursday as a mild...
REAL ESTATE
URA launches two Canberra Drive residential sites for tender
THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has put up two residential sites along...
JustCo, Daito Trust to operate flexible workspaces in Japan
CO-WORKING space operator JustCo has secured a US$50 million investment from Japanese...
Hong Kong sets record in HK$42b land sale
HONG Kong's government fetched a record HK$42 billion (S$7.32 billion) for a plot of...
US mortgage rates rebound slightly heading into Thanksgiving weekend
AFTER sinking to their lowest level in six weeks, US mortgage rates rebounded a bit...
China Merchants breaks Reit-listing drought for HK
HONG Kong is set to welcome its first listing of a real estate investment trust in...
Berlin housing market faces investment crunch
BERLIN'S plan to control surging housing costs is diverting investment from the...
BANKING & FINANCE
China's crackdown on cryptocurrencies claims first victims
CHINA'S latest crypto-crackdown is already claiming its first casualties.
Investment income gain pushes up Maybank's Q3 profit
MALAYAN Banking Bhd's (Maybank) quarterly net profit rose as it swung to a gain from...
TECHNOLOGY
TikTok reinstates video on China's treatment of Muslims
SOCIAL media app TikTok apologised to a user on Thursday for removing a video that...
Amazon's cloud unit readies more potent data centre chip
AMAZON.COM Inc's cloud computing unit has designed a second, more powerful generation...
Israel's military experience gives it an edge in global drone industry
IN a fierce battle for market share against world superpowers China and the United...
CONSUMER
World's first urban veg and fish garden in a hotel opens in Singapore
FAIRMONT Singapore and Swissôtel The Stamford officially opened their urban aquaponics...
GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY
Trump signs Bill in support of HK protesters
DONALD Trump signed legislation expressing the US' support for Hong Kong protesters,...
China holds out carrot ahead of Taiwan election, but few are convinced
CHINA is stepping up efforts to be nice to Taiwan ahead of key elections on Jan 11,...
Supply-side global food inflation and central bank policies
FOOD prices are climbing fast in the world's biggest emerging markets, posing a...
LIFE & CULTURE
Something to talk about
NAME a trait you share with your mother? The oddest item you've gotten for free? Did...
The hoodie now a museum piece
THERE are few items of clothing as politically, socially and racially charged as the...
OPINION
Countries need to take urgent action on climate change
IT should be of little surprise that actions by various nations to rein in greenhouse...
Global economy dodges bullets, but is sluggish
THE US economy ended last year with a whimper and 1.1 per cent annual rate of GDP...
There's no reason workers can't be corporate owners
WHY aren't companies owned by the people who work for those companies? It seems like a...
Will Trump get China deal wrapped up in time for Christmas?
DONALD Trump re-affirmed on Wednesday that US-China negotiators are in the "final...
Tackling the climate crisis needs data, not dreams
RECENT years have seen great progress in awareness of sustainability - in finance, in...
Lifestyle
Tung Lok plates up a taste of sustainability
THE fate of TASTE by Tunglok, it seems, rests on a chicken.
Operators brace for bird calls on the Butterball Turkey hotline
THE Internet should have killed the Butterball Turkey Talkline years ago, but all the...
Banking on Baby
FOR SERENE LIM, a yoga mat isn’t just a yoga mat. At least not where her daughter is...
Luke Bailes
LUKE BAILES MUST have the best job in the world. As the founder of ultra-luxury safari...
Musical Wonderland
Homegrown electronic musician The Analog Girl has released an album's worth of new...
Malaysian motormouth
The world’s most beloved ah beng is coming to town.
La Dolce Vita
One leaves and another takes its place.
Winning Architecture
Will it be fourth time lucky for Singapore to win the Building of the Year award at...
Music, murder & meatpies
Stephen Sondheim’s most macabre musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street...
Plastic Pandemic
An 11m tall sculpture made from recovered ocean plastic and steel that lurks outside...
Clean Eating
Long before sustainable farming became a thing, a noble English lady in Staffordshire...
Special Feature: Korea's Medley of MICE venues
When it comes to organising events, conference centres, elegant ballrooms and...
Harmony of Old and New
Chinese designer Jiang Qiong Er believes that life isn’t about black versus white, or...
Fashion Plate
PRISCILLA SHUNMUGAM DID something almost unthinkable for a homegrown fashion designer...
Yuletide Feasts
Get set for a show-stopping feast at Mandarin Orchard Singapore as friends and family...
Labour of Love
The name Missoni is synonymous with its colourful chevron-patterned clothing. But...
Raffles Place: Then and Now
RAFFLES PLACE HAS been Singapore’s commercial district for nearly 200 years.
BREAKING NEWS
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son cleaves to guts-led investing in chat with Alibaba's Jack Ma
[TOKYO] Weeks after his billion-dollar bailout of WeWork, SoftBank Group Corp's founder and CEO Masayoshi Son...
Tokyo: Stocks edge up on hopes for US-China trade deal
[TOKYO] Tokyo stocks inched up Friday on continued hopes for a US-China trade deal, with investors cautious thanks...
Singapore stocks: STI resumes Friday afternoon up 0.07%
SINGAPORE shares resumed trading in positive territory on Friday afternoon, with the benchmark Straits Times Index...
Samsung to take on iPhone’s popularity with big camera overhaul
[SEOUL] Samsung Electronics Co's response to Apple Inc's much-improved iPhone 11 cameras is going to be a giant...
Sasseur Reit to join FTSE EPRA Nareit Global Emerging Index
SASSEUR Real Estate Investment Trust (Sasseur Reit) will be included in the FTSE EPRA Nareit Global Emerging Index...
Polar Water unveils latest product in recyclable cartons in green push
POLAR Water Distributor, a Singapore-based food service distribution company, has gone for fully recyclable...
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