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In tomorrow’s #BTWeekend: 🦠 The Raffles Conversation: Francis Van Parys, Asia-Pacific vice-president at Cytiva, focuses on ensuring that the biopharma company stays ahead of clients' quickly-evolving needs in the Covid…

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October 15 evening round-up: 1. EMA cites high demand, gas supply curbs for sharp spikes in Singapore's spot electricity prices bt.sg/ooTg 2. Analysts see slight lift from foreign demand in Singapore property in Q4 2021…

Shopee to hire over 1,600 staff as battle in home markets heats up The hiring spree comes just weeks after its parent Sea Ltd raised US$6.3 billion in the largest equity offering of the year, in a move that would boost S…

The ex-entrepreneur at Google with a fire for Asia Tech giant's Asia-Pacific president still counts on his passion for solving problems to plug the gaps in region's technology landscape. bt.sg/ooSS 🔓 Read this and other…

Raising tax revenue the 'sustainable and responsible' way to fund Singapore's expenditures: Lawrence Wong While some people have objected to certain tax increases because they are regressive and disproportionately affect…

Family of Kopitiam King buys Lornie Road GCB for S$26.8m The price of S$2,545 per square foot, albeit on a relatively small freehold land area of 10,529 sq ft, is seen as being on the high side for the Caldecott Hill Est…

October 15 morning round-up: 1. ESR-Reit, ARA Logos propose S$1.4b merger bt.sg/oo5f 2. Porcelain Hotel in early stage of being sold for about S$90m bt.sg/oo5x 3. M1, Keppel DC Reit finalise agreements on network asset d…