Singapore

Frasers Centrepoint inks $288m construction deal for Sydney development

It appointed Brookfield Multiplex to deliver its DUO project.

Keppel denies charges in Petrobras-related lawsuit

The allegations are “baseless”, says Keppel.

Strength in Singapore's diversity

2016 is a special year for Singapore. While much of the SG50 Jubilee celebrations was spent reminiscing our economic miracle, SG51 marks our first chapter of a new tomorrow. As Singapore pushes ahead, we face a completely different set of challenges as compared to our pioneers.

Are SkillsFuture and WorkPro the panacea to Singapore's rising skilled labour woes?

Singapore's employment landscape is presently undergoing seismic changes, but the sectoral transformations exhorted are being driven more by need rather than by design. Against a backdrop of a slowing economy (2.1 percent in 2015 and expected to remain between 1 and 3 percent this year), high retrenchments in the service industries (4,600 redundancies in 1Q16 compared with 3,500 in 1Q15), and falling demand for manufactured goods, Singapore has had no choice but to review, redesign, and restructure its labour market in an attempt to galvanise employment stability in an unpredictable and volatile global market.

Running your SME: There's (probably) an app for that

Almost every industry today is digitised. Most business functions are software-enabled. Around 40 percent of the world's population has an Internet connection. It comes as no surprise that 68 percent of Singapore’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will invest in their in-house technology and innovation capabilities, according to DP Information Group’s SME Development Survey. While this figure appears promising, the increase in technology adoption from a year ago was a mere 4 percent.

KSH Holdings’ net profit jumps by 48% to $61.5m

On back of a significant profit boost from China.