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Tiong Seng Holdings in joint venture with 2 Japanese firms
SINGAPORE - Locally listed Tiong Seng Holdings has joined forces with two Japanese companies to take on demand for infrastructure in Singapore and Malaysia.The construction firm will invest $6.4...
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Beauty with brains: 13 beauty queens who work in finance
If you ever had the misconception that beauty queens were all bimbos who wished only for world peace - you cannot be more wrong.These 13 beauty queens, including Singapore's Rachel Kum and Lynn Tan,...
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$100m aid package for airlines at Changi
SINGAPORE - Changi has extended a $100 million lifeline to help airlines cut costs amid a business slowdown that has hit not just the carriers, but the airport as well.The one-year helping hand...
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Ascott awards its first franchise deals
SINGAPORE - Serviced apartment operator The Ascott has signed its first franchise agreements for new properties in Vientiane, Laos, and Bali, Indonesia, it said yesterday.Ascott, which is wholly owned...
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SICC to zoom in on manpower challenges
SINGAPORE - Discrimination against hiring older workers, overly fussy job-hopping employees and top Singaporean talent unwilling to go abroad to gain vital experience.These are some of the issues and...
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Nomura back to business as usual
SINGAPORE - Five years on from the financial crisis, Nomura wants Asian companies to know that it is back on track to do some serious business.Not that the Japanese bank had been derailed by the...
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Fine tuned
When Joanna Lee and her husband first moved into this 22-year-old HDB flat, it was on such a tight schedule that a major renovation was out of the question. They settled with what the previous occupant...
View ArticleStatement on Japan's corporate tax cuts remains ambiguous
The government's draft policies released last week called for cutting the effective corporate tax rate but failed to make specific suggestions on important issues such as what the eventual tax rate...
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Homes sold as leasehold tenures on freehold sites
SINGAPORE -Â Owners of The Shore Residences may be unaware that they are part of a small group to have bought units sold with leasehold tenures, though the developer owns a freehold land title.The...
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Hougang Ave 7 HUDC estate goes private
SINGAPORE -Â The Hougang Avenue 7 HUDC estate was successfully privatised yesterday, said the Housing Board (HDB), confirming an earlier report in The Straits Times.The estate, comprising 286 flats in...
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Bidadari home projects attract growing interest
SINGAPORE - Interest in Housing Board flats in Bidadari is growing but investors have also been quick to buy private homes in the growing residential enclave.Of course, any mention of the quiet...
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Robinsons MD quits months after grand Orchard opening
SINGAPORE -Â The man credited with revamping the staid image of the 156-year-old Robinsons department store has left his job just seven months after the new Robinsons Orchard's grand opening.Managing...
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Soft sales for cars, watches and jewellery
SINGAPORE - The shiny stuff is not glittering now. Sales of cars, watches and jewellery plunged by double digits in April, dragging down Singapore's retail sales by 9 per cent compared with a year...
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Discounts for prime private homes too
SINGAPORE - The sale is on for private residential projects in the prime central region, following price cuts for city fringe and suburban projects which helped developers move more unsold units.Palms...
View ArticleJohor builders hopeful over Bill
JOHOR BARU - Property developers in the state hope the Johor Housing and Real Property Enactment Board Bill 2014 will level the playing field for all builders in the state.Johor Real Estate and Housing...
View ArticleGive priority in non-mature HDB estates to avoid 'alumni' effect
Most Singaporeans surveyed support the Housing Board's plans to encourage couples to live near their parents. But how to do this without penalising other applicants too harshly is another question.In a...
View ArticleAsian shares mostly lower on growing Iraq crisis
Asian markets were mostly lower on Monday as a positive lead from Wall Street was trumped by fears over the growing crisis in Iraq that has sent oil prices to nine-month highs.The uncertainty fuelled...
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Price cuts at prime central private homes too
SINGAPORE - The sale is on for private residential projects in the prime central region, following price cuts for city fringe and suburban projects which helped developers move more unsold units.Palms...
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Start-ups here run by older bosses
Thanks to Facebook, and now HBO's start-up sitcom Silicon Valley, the popular image of an entrepreneur is very much Mark Zuckerberg-inspired: a male, socially awkward geek in his early 20s, a tad...
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Price cuts fuel private home sales
SINGAPORE - Sales of private homes by developers nearly doubled last month from April as the developers slashed prices to move units at existing launches and priced their new launches attractively.A...
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