Income inequality is widening across the world with rapidly ageing populations and the pandemic exacerbating the situation. Low-income groups tend to be highly dependent on deposit savings, which leaves them […]
WASHINGTON • After a year in which the Federal Reserve pushed out unprecedented lending to support the US economy while pleading for government stimulus that never came, central bankers could […]
SINGAPORE – A comprehensive biodiversity survey on the Southern Islands has discovered several rare and endangered species there, including the oriental magpie-robin and spotted wood owl. The Southern Islands Biodiversity […]
SINGAPORE – A lagoon on St John’s Island will soon be opened to the public for research, education and conservation activities. The 3.9ha Bendera Bay, which was previously inaccessible to […]
Good morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Sunday, Dec 13. Hawker heritage: Passing on a legacy As Singapore awaits the Unesco decision on inscribing hawker culture on […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – Now is a great time to develop a serious budgeting habit. The next year might bring changes to your annual income and you should look at your finances […]
Clients occasionally fire highly technical questions at regional sales manager Lawrence Low that can leave him stumped, which is no great surprise given he joined the precision tooling sector only […]
Mr Clement Wang’s traineeship at Rong Xing Yong Tau Fu began after a chance encounter in January when, while queueing at the Tanjong Pagar Plaza stall, he told the hawker […]
All investors have their weak points and often think they are smarter than they actually are, so a steady temperament is critical when putting your money on the line, says […]
Back in 2012, Aftershock was started in a small shophouse in Serangoon Road. Today, it is Singapore’s biggest boutique PC builder, occupying nine units in a light industrial building in […]
9.9, 10.10, 11.11 and 12.12. For those who have switched to online shopping in a big way, these numbers have become part of their lingo. The same goes for a […]
Rapid technological disruption in recent years has caused disruption and decimation of jobs across industries, but it has also created new ones. The Covid-19 crisis has hastened the changes. Reskilling […]
SINGAPORE – An 80-year-old man, his wife, 66, and their son, 45, died following an incident in the elderly couple’s flat in Lakeside on Thursday (Dec 10). The elderly man […]
Rzeszów, Poland – As the CBD industry continues to boom around the world, European CBD leader Reakiro and the UK’s market leading CBD retailer, Holland & Barrett have agreed an exclusive […]
Good morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Saturday, Dec 12. Covid-19 vaccine: Will you take it? 8 in 10 say yes in ST poll But one in […]
NEW YORK (AFP) – Wall Street stocks finished mostly lower Friday on disappointment over the lack of progress on a US stimulus Bill, while Disney shares skyrocketed on higher streaming […]
A managing director and his Singapore-based wholesale trading company unlawfully supplied goods – mainly wines and spirits – worth more than $745,000 to North Korea between 2013 and 2018. Due […]
Entertainment company G.H.Y Culture & Media Holding lodged its final prospectus yesterday ahead of a mainboard listing. It is offering 21.7 million shares at 66 cents each in its initial […]
SEOUL • Hyundai Motor units and its chairman have agreed to buy an 80 per cent stake in robot-maker Boston Dynamics from SoftBank Group for around 800 billion won to […]
Singapore’s Sea, the technology start-up that has become South-east Asia’s most valuable company, increased the size and set the final price of a secondary stock offering to raise at least […]
