Singapore

Benchmarking elevates private homes resale prices

What grew the fastest was the resale price of leasehold condominiums in suburban areas, with 3.9% quarter-on-quarter increase.

Benchmarking elevates private homes resale prices

What grew the fastest was the resale price of leasehold condominiums in suburban areas, with 3.9% quarter-on-quarter increase.

Singapore hosts workshop on building molecule-sized computer chips

Singapore’s IMRE houses rare R&D tools in the world powerful enough to study single molecule logic gates and surface atom circuit logic gates.

CapitaLand subsidiary subscribes to 116mn rights shares in Central China Real Estate

CapitaLand maintains hold of 27.11% of total shares in CCRE comprising a total of 658mn shares of HK$0.01 each.

Asia Pac loan volume reached $180bn in 1H 2011

And you’ll never guess which country led with a 22% share.

Asia Pac debt markets boom 19% to a record $348.9bn

China led the region with $112.4bn and accounted for 32% of Asia Pacific (ex Japan) DCM volume in 1H 2011.

IEA’s release of 60m extra oil barrels tagged as a ‘stopgap measure’

This is because oil demand from emerging nations such as China and India is still expected to remain strong.

All positive for Asia’s 40 largest banks

92.5% of the largest banks in Asia Pacific have stable outlooks despite the global financial crisis.

Turning the tide: NOL carries more cargo

And NOL has higher volumes on intra-Asia and Asia-Europe routes to thank.

SingPost raises stake in Malaysian BPO company

It has acquired 35 million ordinary shares in Efficient, upping its stake to 20.12%.

GIC appoints Acting Chairmen

This after Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam left his post as GIC's Deputy Chairman and Executive Director.

URA launches Robinson Road / Cecil Street site

The 0.29 ha commercial site can generate about 32,000 sqm of gross floor area.

CapitaLand to oversee Ophir-Rochor site development

Its subsidiary CapitaLand Commercial Project Services has been appointed by the joint venture between Khazanah and Temasek.

Land deal with Malaysia to work under one condition: analyst

Absorption of the upcoming supply is forecast to be manageable, although analyst says there should be this one little assumption.

$400 million to be spent on urban sustainability R&D

This amidst what are said to be increasingly scarcer resources and tighter land constraints.

Singapore and Malaysia to develop $10bln real estate projects

These are part of the agreement that had Malaysia giving up its control of railway land in Singapore.

SGX ensures transparency in Singapore government bonds trading

Banks to provide market making and brokers to increase liquidity and facilitate buying and selling of SGS bonds.