Business

SINGAPORE – DBS Bank has launched real-time online tracking of cross-border collections to provide greater digital convenience for its corporate clients. This builds on its existing solutions that let businesses track cross-border payments…
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HONG KONG – China’s top ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing is considering Hong Kong for a multibillion-dollar initial public offering (IPO) next year, people with knowledge of the matter said, rethinking previous aims to list in New York amid…
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Australia’s central bank discussed the possibility of further monetary easing at its October board meeting, including cutting the cash rate towards zero and buying longer-dated government bonds, minutes of its most recent meeting showed on…
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SINGAPORE – Singapore Expo has had its first in-person Mice (meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions) event since the space was repurposed as a community care facility during the Covid-19 pandemic. The opening ceremony for the…
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SINGAPORE – A league table assessing retirement income systems has again put Singapore at top spot in Asia and seventh overall. The ranking comes amid concerns that the pandemic will hit future pensions, with reduced contributions, lower…
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SINGAPORE – Singapore Post (SingPost) is looking to buy a 38 per cent stake in Freight Management Holdings (FMH), a fourth-party logistics (4PL) service company incorporated in Victoria, Australia for A$85 million (S$84.1 million) in cash.…
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SINGAPORE – Singapore’s electronics sector in general and the semiconductor industry in particular have outperformed other segments of the economy and they are likely to continue to offer more job opportunities. Minister for Trade and…
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SINGAPORE – The Singapore court on Thursday (OCT 15) sentenced a former CGS-CIMB Securities employee to 20 months and 18 weeks’ jail for her involvement in manipulating trading in the shares of Catalist-listed Koyo International between…
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SINGAPORE  – The increased activity in Singapore’s retail sector hints at a bottoming out of rents by the end of this year or early next year, Knight Frank’s research team said in a report published on Friday (Oct 16). Overall retail rents…
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BRUSSELS – Huawei Technologies, already getting squeezed out of Europe’s vast market for the next generation of telecom equipment, is under siege in another fast-growing business: cloud computing. US officials have been lobbying European…
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