Singapore

Now lawyers can’t touch your conveyancing money

New measures say it should be deposited into specialized accounts.

Now lawyers can’t touch your conveyancing money

New measures say it should be deposited into specialized accounts.

Circle Line to be completed in October

Daily ridership for the 28 stations is pegged at 400,000.

First session of 12th Parliament begins 10 October

It will start with the election of the Speaker and the swearing-in of 90 Members of the House.

Turbulent flight: SIA’s earnings outlook for 2012 to remain grim

Blame it on global economic weakness and high jet fuel prices.

"We overcame the odds and transformed our economy": Prime Minister

Mr Lee Hsien Loong said GDP per capita is now almost S$60,000 compared to the S$1,374 fifty years ago.

Sembcorp Marine receives order worth US$444m

This brings the company's order wins to a whopping S$2.63 billion year-to-date.

CapitaLand appoints Arthur Lang Tao Yih as chief financial officer

Mr Lang will also be concurrently appointed as a member of the Investment Committee and the Finance and Budget Committee.

Electronics PMI may have dropped to 50.4 in June

Standard Chartered also expects Singapore's PMI to have eased to 50.3 in July.

Sinking ship? COSCO profit down 53.4%

The turbulent ride was due to higher income tax expense and lower profit contributions from dry bulk shipping and shipyard operations.

DBS sets up US$5bn Euro-Commercial Paper Programme

Proceeds to be used for the general business purposes of DBS and its subsidiaries.

SGX securities market begins whole-day trading

Monday’s trade from 12.30pm to 2.00pm generated $110mn, contributing to 6.4% of the day’s trading.

HSBC to cut 25,000 jobs by 2013

And it will exit operations in 20 countries as it looks to save billions of dollars.

Tiger Airways to offer thrice weekly Singapore-Davao flights

The first flight to Davao will take off on November 1.

SIA and Virgin Australia to offer reciprocal lounge access

SIA’s KrisFlyer Elite Gold and PPS Club members can now access Virgin Australia’s six domestic lounges.

SilkAir's first flight to Kolkata takes off

With this four times weekly service, SilkAir now serves seven destinations in India.

Wealthy Singaporeans: 85% of travellers splurged on a leisure trip this year

And 23% said they even made more than three trips in the past 12 months.

Countless credit: Loans in Singapore reached a whopping $374b in June

Guess which sector was in dire need of cash and accounted for 56% of the total loans?