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Banyan Tree launches serviced apartment brand
SINGAPORE - Luxury hospitality firm Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts has launched a new brand of serviced apartments, in its first foray into the extended-stay segment. The firm will develop five...
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The primary concerns about secondary listings
SINGAPORE - It is a very rare event, surely, that a stock exchange's largest company does not register a trade for more than a month.But that is precisely the quagmire that the Singapore Exchange (SGX)...
View ArticleJapanese workers get leg up in early morning
JAPAN - Company employees' early morning activities, dubbed "asakatsu" in Japanese, are diversifying.Until recently, workers engaged mainly self-developmental programs, such as obtaining licenses or...
View ArticleThe Alibaba culture: kung fu commerce with a dash of theatre
BEIJING/HONG KONG - When Jack Ma and his colleagues sat down in 2001 to lay out Alibaba's defining values, they named them after a martial arts technique drawn from Ma's love of kung fu novels and...
View Article'No regrets' as Acer boss prepares to retire - again
TAIPEI - It's deja vu for Acer's (宏碁) founder Stan Shih (施振榮) as he prepares to step down again later this month - he retired 10 years ago, but returned to take back the reins of the struggling...
View ArticleOil prices up in Asia
SINGAPORE - Oil prices rose in Asian trade Monday, boosted by robust Chinese export data and a solid US jobs report, analysts said.US benchmark, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for July delivery, gained...
View ArticleAsia shares rally on upbeat US, Japan, China data
HONG KONG - Asian markets rallied Monday, buoyed by another record close on Wall Street in response to an impressive US jobs report, an upward revision of Japanese economic growth and healthy Chinese...
View ArticleJapan's economy grows 1.6% in Q1
TOKYO - Japan's economy saw its strongest expansion in more than two years during the first quarter of 2013, revised data showed Monday, but a sales tax rise has weighed on growth since the levy...
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3Gen flats? No thanks, we'd rather live on our own
YOUNG couples taking part in a dialogue on housing were largely against living in new jumbo-sized flats with their parents after marriage, echoing the preliminary results of an online poll that showed...
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20 things successful and likeable people do
Are you a likeable person? If you want to be rich and successful, you should make sure you are.One person cannot pave the road to success alone. You will need friends and allies to help you achieve...
View ArticleModi government makes economic revival 'paramount' goal
NEW DELHI - India's new government pledged Monday to make the revival of the flagging economy its "paramount" target as it laid out its legislative agenda following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's...
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Temasek appoints 3 new board members
The new appointments will see the board enlarged from the current 10 to 13, said Temasek, which owns a $215 billion portfolio as at March 31 last year.Get the full story from The Straits Times.The...
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'Good mother, good leader, good wife'
SINGAPORE - Growing up, Ms Marillyn Hewson had fun playing with Barbie dolls but it was military planes that excited her.Maybe it was because her father was in the army and her mother a nurse during...
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Rusty knife a sharp reminder of hard life
SINGAPORE - Ernest Tan fishes out a package from his bag in the lobby bar of a hotel in Bugis.It is a family heirloom, he says, before carefully peeling away several sheets of old newspapers to reveal...
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UK developer cashing in on World Cup fever
With the World Cup just days away, football fever has gripped sports fans across the globe - and at least one developer is cashing in.London-based Ritz Property is trying to woo buyers in Singapore...
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S'pore 'ideal as regional base for Japanese bank'
A new dawn has broken over the land of the rising sun.Japanese companies, long stereotyped - rightly or wrongly - as parochial and inward-looking, are finally casting their gaze further...
View ArticleAsia stocks hit 3-year high on Wall St bull run
TOKYO - Asia stocks edged up to a three-year high on Tuesday after a record-breaking Wall Street bull run continued on the back of economic optimism, while rising yields supported the dollar.Monetary...
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Singapore trims H2 2014 private housing supply
SINGAPORE - The government will offer land for 3,900 private residential units (including 1,500 EC or executive condominium units) through the confirmed list under the second half 2014 Government Land...
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