Singapore
Singapore's Energy Market Company to help firms pick electricity retailer in 15 minutes
It launched a procurement portal, PowerSelect, which also houses electricity futures data.
TADA Taxi app kicks off in Singapore
It will have an instant cashout system for drivers.
MyRepublic launches new flagship store in Vivocity
The internet company offered exclusive fibre broadband and mobile promotions to celebrate the opening.
Keppel Infrastructure Trust to buy Australian chemical firm Ixom for $775m
It will allow Keppel to gain a foothold in the water treatment sector.
Daily Briefing: Wilmar may invest up to $1.38b in Russian soybean production; Lee warns ASEAN may need to choose over US or China amidst trade war escalation
And Scoot to move its operation to Changi Airport Terminal 1 by 2019.
Daily Markets Briefing: STI up 0.37%
Wall Street's gains could uplift the local bourse today.
Chart of the Day: Q3 industrial investment sales climbed 52.3% to $1.2b
Mapletree Logistics Trust bought five warehouses in West Region for $730m.
Grab unveils cross-border remittance service for e-wallet
Users can remit and receive money directly from their GrabPay wallet.
Golden Agri's 6% output growth trailing behind peers and industry: analyst
The firm’s ‘floating rate’ borrowings also pose a threat to its earnings.
Singapore inks intellectual property deal with Russia
This will allow Russian enterprises to explore IP growth markets in Asia.
United Engineers profit slipped 16% to $7.68m in Q3
A sharp decline in property development revenues hit quarterly earnings.
New private home sales plunge 47.7% in October as developers market less projects
This translates to 932 sold units.
Waterloo Apartments en bloc sold for $131.1m
It changed its zoning from residential to hotel to maximise its location potential at Civic District.
Deutsche Bank unveils Asia Pacific Innovation Lab in Singapore
The move is a part of its strategy to further digitise client solutions.
How Singapore enterprises can rise to the digitalisation challenge
These days, it is hard to avoid the topic of digitalisation when you read any expert commentary, business book, or newspaper headline. The benefits from technologies such as Internet of Things, Big Data Analytics, Robotic Process Automation, and AI-enabled chatbots are clear: Firms can save costs from automating manual processes, gain deeper, real-time insight into their customers, and rapidly scale their reach to new markets. Yet, many enterprises are still concerned about how they can participate fully in a digital economy.
APAC's hotel transaction volume hit US$5.2b YTD in 9MFY18
China, Japan and South Korea accounted for 70% of transaction volumes.