Singapore

Residential properties sale value topped auction sale, garnering $114.82 million or 51.3% of the total sale value.

Yet it is still a substantial 45% below the decade's high of $407.43 million recorded in 2007.

Brave New World “The Threat Landscape has changed radically in the last couple of years. Rarely do threats start with a couple of anti-globalism dorm boys, now threats begin with professional, international organised crime syndicates,” warns Symantec Hosted Service’s VP for Apac & Japan, Bjorn Engelhardt. FBI partners close to Engelhardt have described the value of cybercrime to equate to the value of the drug trade in the US. “These groups are highly professional, they are after any information that they can on-sell, it may be information on product and trade secrets or it may be customer databases. It is serious business - the cyber criminals’ objectives are to target IT systems, lie low and remain there undetected for as long as they can, skimming valuable and privileged information.”

Bjorn Engelhardt is a man of the world. A Baby Boomer with Y-Gen energy and ICT expertise, Engelhardt - as his name may imply - is Scandinavian at heart. Born in Denmark, he moved to Norway as a child and then settled in Australia at the age of 11. Engelhard will tell you though that he is also Australian at heart, quoting his vast knowledge of cricket, rugby, Australian music and other Aussie cultural pillars as proof.

75% of fund managers overweight on Asia Pacific ex Japan equities, up from 44% in 3Q10, according to HSBC Fund Managers' Survey.

Over the year, job vacancies increased up to 50,200 in September 2010, the highest recorded since the comparable series started in March 2006.

Total gains in the first nine months came in at 82,500, in contrast to an almost flat growth of 100 over the same period last year when the economy was in recession.

The acquisition will provide Olam with steady US$106-133 million revenues and 16-19% EBITDA margins from two African countries by 2014.

SIA seeks approval to launch its service in Sao Paolo as it increase frequency of service in Singapore and points in North Asia, West Asia and Europe.

Sales volume jumped 2.7 times to 1,229 units in the region during the month.

The sales tally for the whole of 2010 is likely to be in excess of 16,500 units.

Yet, excluding car sales, growth came in at 5.3%, suggesting that people are not just window shopping.

The outlook on all banks' 'AA-' Long-Term IDRs is stable though home price decline behind risky & weak external conditions.

While Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand is expected to register a healthy GDP growth, ranging from 4%-6%.

Total transaction volume for the homes sold up to November 2010 was $16.98 billion.

Changi Airport handled more than 40 million passenger movements in 2010.