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Loco Spanish Tapas Bar opens in Singapore

Loco Spanish Tapas Bar offers an executive set lunch at S$9.99.

Loco Spanish Tapas Bar opens in Singapore

Loco Spanish Tapas Bar offers an executive set lunch at S$9.99.

Bumpy ride ahead for SMRT

Falling net profits, persistent cost pressure and declining weekly ridership for CCL – what else to expect?

35% of firms foresees business conditions to deteriorate

Survey shows only 10% of firms expects business to improve in the first half of 2012.

Singapore Markets Morning Briefing - what you need to know for Wed Feb 1, 2012

Double trouble on Wall Street and with the Nikkei could send ripples into the bourse today.

Singapore roads safest in half-a-decade

Fatal and injury accident rate in 2011 dropped to 83.31 per 10,000 vehicle population.

Turbulent years ahead for Tiger Airways

PhillipCapital predicts even bigger losses in 2012 and a slower rebound in 2013.

Should Olam just stick to Russian dairy?

Its plans to invest heavily in grain cultivation comes with risks and no major advantages, warns Daiwa.

In SGX who's the king of net cash?

An investment holding company beat out all other SGX-listed firms in a new AmFraser ranking.

CDL Hospitality Trusts’ revenue up 13% to S$38m in 4Q11

Studio M Hotel, which was acquired in 2Q11, accounted for approximately S$2.7 million of the group’s revenue increase.

SMRT’s revenue surges 10% to $268m in 3Q12

The group stays strong despite the MRT disruption that caused a stir last year.

SIA Engineering’s revenue soars 13% to $303m in 3Q11

Things are looking good for the group as revenue from its fleet management programme surged in 2011.

Tiong Woon bags contract for largest sea water desalination plant in Singapore

Work on the project will commence shortly and is scheduled to be completed by the end of December 2012.

Mapletree’s revenue jumps 11% to S$50m in 3Q11

The partial opening of the Alexandra Retail Centre last December greatly contributed to the group’s gross revenue.

Loan growth to slow significantly to a mere 8% in 2012

This is a depressing figure compared to 2011’s 30.3% growth.

Unemployment rate of 2% the lowest in 14 years

But there is still a shortage of talent across the board as companies look to hire experienced and skilled staff, according to Randstad.

Next gen NBN will transform video content consumption in Singapore

News recently of Singapore's ultra-high speed Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (Next Gen NBN) achieving 83 per cent nationwide deployment was an exciting development in this countries evolution. Having the correct infrastructure in place provides people with greater access to the internet and ultimately a much broader range of video content.

Epicentre Holdings names Yun Chee Keen as Chief Financial Officer

He will replace Chua Oi Keng in overseeing all aspects of financial planning, internal control compliance, financial reporting.