Three-Minute Digest

Bonds beat doubters

DEBT issuance beat initial forecasts to turn in a solid second quarter and first half of 2014, as a benign rates environment and strong local currencies kept the bond party in Singapore and the region going longer than expected.

S'pore potential marketplace for gems

THE Republic has the potential to become the world's marketplace for gemstones, said London-listed gemstone miner Gemfields, which held its first-ever ruby auction in Singapore between…