Singapore

Volumes are recovering across segments.

He intended to spend more time with his family members.

How long will it remain like this?

His increased workload on other business commitments which do not allow him to spend enough time with the Company costed him his position.

Income inequality in Singapore is one of the highest in the developed world, which has recently raised concerns about the cost of living amongst other economic issues. While Singapore might rank as one of the most productive economies in the world on a GDP per capita basis, this doesn’t translate into happiness or perceived success for Singaporeans.

The Gulf is Singapore's 5th largest trading partner.

Its height is a dizzying 56.5 ft.

Two years earlier than original plan.

In our work life, we are all too busy striving to achieve our KPIs and do good our responsibilities. Naturally, you would expect to taste success for the hard work you paid off. In real life, it may not be just a simple case of ‘you reap what you sow’. In the journey of attaining the desired outcome, setbacks and rejections somehow inevitably attempt to block our path towards success.

Index tumbled 7.5% in 10 days.

Are they getting more fragile?

Good news for construction firms.

 

For years now both locals and expatriates of Singapore have been sending funds into Australia to take advantage of higher interest rates paid on deposits relative to what can be earned in Singapore. Nobody can blame them for this or even be surprised given the 3.5 – 4.5% interest payable that is possible within Australia, but what else must these investors be considering when it comes to making this investment.

Some of us may have read BBC’s twitter feed early Wednesday morning on our way to work and had a shock. The news report was on yet another malicious attack by a Syrian group, but this was a domain name hijack and the victim was The New York Times. In January 2012, the Russian embassy in Singapore found their website attacked similarly by Syrian hackers. The News On 27 August 2013, Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a group loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, successfully hacked into an Australian registrar’s system to alter DNS zone records of the domain addresses NYTimes.com, HuffingtonPost.co.uk and Twitter.com. Insodoing, they managed to alter WHOIS information to reflect themselves as public owners of these domain addresses, changed the nameservers to those of a Syrian Electronic Army server and re-directed genuine website visitors and tweeters to phishing sites of their choice.

But will this be sustained?