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This will be a challenging year: DBS
The emphasis is expected to be on reinforcing the productivity drive.
This will be a challenging year: DBS
The emphasis is expected to be on reinforcing the productivity drive.
Banks' earnings growth to be subdued in 2012
But without a global financial crisis scenario, the bleak outlook in 1H12 should revert positively in 2H12.
Singapore Markets Morning Briefing - what you need to know for Tues Feb 7, 2012
It seems like there’s nothing to jump about at least this morning.
Singapore is currently one of world's Top 10 growing airports
Which four other Asia Pacific airports made the cut as of the month of February?
Will oversupply work to STX OSV's advantage?
The Main Board-listed shipbuilder holds the premium ace amid a sea of other OSV makers, says OCBC.
DBS forms a Taiwan subsidiary
It was created as part of a so-called greater China strategy.
Fashion or beauty: Which gets cut first in a recession?
70% of Asian women including Singaporeans will sacrifice fashion purchases before beauty spending.
CapitaCommercial Trust clears issue on Twenty Anson deal
It corrects a Business Times article, saying there is no certainty of the $400m deal materializing.
Swiber Holdings off to a great start with US$216m worth of contracts in 2012
Its Middle East joint venture has also secured a contract win amounting to over US$38 million.
Eu Yan Sang reels from S$3m blow in 2Q12
As it’s 1H12 net profit plunges 78% to a pitiful S$2 million.
Bursting of real estate bubbles to pose threats to Singapore
A sharp downturn in property prices remains to be a risk in the near future.
CapitaGreen in Singapore CBD to be completed by 2014
CapitaLand expects a 20% saving in construction time in reducing the normal completion period of 39 to 40 months to 32 months.
Just like a woman: The gender issue in Singapore
Getting women back to work is an issue that has preoccupied Singapore for over a decade. As far back as 1997, the Government set up a Back to Work Advisory Committee to consider incentives that could allow employers to employ more women. At that time, proposals included; flexible working, part time working, job sharing and teleworking.
Why do local niche agencies fare better when managing social media marketing?
There’s a refreshing, obvious & strong pattern in Singapore, where many brands are turning to niche, local agencies to oversee their social media marketing campaigns as compared to the big boys out there.
What can Singapore get from a border less
In 2005, award winning columnist Thomas Friedman introduced an outstanding metaphor for a border less economic world, The World is flat. Since then the world has become conscious of economies flattening stimulating lateral growth and enhancing global accessibility.
Are deal-of-the-day sites too good to be true?
Deal-of-the-day sites (think Groupon.sg, Deal.com.sg, Bigdeal.sg) have proliferated quite recently, and I thought I would give one of them a go since my hair needed a good fix early last year.
How to market a start-up in Singapore
Singapore’s entrepreneurial stage has been set as a promising hub with enough buzz to re-launch a nineties boyband back to stardom. However, with only 778 km of highly urbanized land mass and five million consumers at best, you had better be selling the next best thing since the iPhone.
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