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Not interested: Commercial site gets solitary bid
While a similar plot nearby attracted 10 bids in April.
Not interested: Commercial site gets solitary bid
While a similar plot nearby attracted 10 bids in April.
Enough of the cars! Unless you want more vehicles than roads to drive them on
You may want to think twice about buying that second car as LTA aims to cut down annual vehicle population growth amidst average annual road growth of only about 1%.
SMEs worried over the next 6 months
Singapore businesses are less confident in the months ahead as profit expectations have plummeted by 15.9%.
Brick-and-mortar stores battle online counterparts
Guess who will win in the sector which generated $3.8b in value-add in 2009, or 1.5% of Singapore's GDP.
“What Singapore has achieved, very few others have done”: President
President Tony Tan went so far to say that Singapore’s "well educated, hardworking workforce" is the best in the world.
Singapore Airlines denies report its budget long-haul carrier is ready for take-off in April
All other information mentioned by Straits Times like number of aircrafts planned to operate were also rebuffed.
SIA’s budget long-haul carrier ready for takeoff?
Other budget carriers may have reason to worry with operations reportedly starting in April. Singapore Airlines' low-fare long-haul carrier is said to commence with one Boeing 777-200 aircraft.
New hawker centre to be built after 25 years
It will be built and completed in Bukit Panjang within the next three years.
Singapore economy to grow 5.1% in 2012
HSBC expects the country’s growth to ease in the coming quarters as exports and industrial production are declining.
Silver lining: Bukom fire to benefit contractors
Order flows potentially await contractors that provide civil engineering, construction, equipment rental and/or structural steel works services.
Yes, developers are interested but are more cautious
The residential site at Jalan Loyang Besar / Pasir Ris Rise attracted 13 bids, but the highest was more than 10% lower than a neighbouring site.
Crude market reacts to Bukom blaze, shows unusual volatility in price spread
This as the fire caused Shell to cancel the lifting of 4 million barrels of crude.
Shell declares force majeure
Force majeure has been declared on customers after the blaze at Bukom which shut down Shell’s 500,000 barrels-a-day refinery.
No toxic gases so far on the mainland from Shell refinery fire
The blaze had been extinguished but those with respiratory problems are advised to avoid the western part of Singapore near Bukom.
Shell's Singapore plant burns
The fire at the company’s largest refinery continues on Thursday but is under control.
Comments? MAS issues consultation paper on regulatory regime for fund management companies
One proposal is to require FMCs to put in place a risk management framework over their fund management operations.
SGD among the most sensitive to risk dynamics, says analyst
USD-SGD saw what an analyst described as “something of a breakdown” during the middle of 2011.
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