The Business Times

Alibaba sets ambitious US$100b GMV goal for Lazada The Chinese e-commerce leader is targeting a long-term goal of quintupling gross merchandise value (GMV), the sum of transactions across Lazada's platforms, to US$100 bi…

Presenting the 2021 winners of the #Enterprise50 awards, jointly organised by BT and KPMG: First place: Reachfield Security & Safety Management Pte Ltd Second place: AllAlloy Pte Ltd Third place: Utracon Overseas Pte Ltd…

#BTLUXE: The spirit of giving This Christmas, Jazz Li is opening a new art space to share his love of art with others. bt.sg/oRS4

#BRUNCH: Taxidermy: Breathing new life, after death The art and science of preservation is entering the mainstream in Singapore. What’s behind the allure of insect and animal carcasses? bt.sg/oRZ8

China's real estate billionaire tycoons have lost in excess of US$46 billion in wealth collectively this year This according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a ranking of the world's 500 richest people that started i…

#BTExclusive: SET looks towards attracting SMEs and foreign listings Sitting down for an interview with BT's Raphael Lim is Pakorn Peetathawatchai, president of the Stock Exchange of Thailand. The SET leads the SEA regio…

HSBC fined US$85m for anti-money laundering failings The regulator said HSBC had made a string of failings, including inadequate monitoring of money laundering and terrorist financing scenarios until 2014, and poor risk…

Gong Cha owner mulling sale or IPO; the bubble tea business could be worth US$600m The bubble tea chain currently operates more than 1,300 stores globally, including in Australia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the UK an…

Crypto billionaire Zhu Su in early stage of buying S$49m GCB as trustee for 3-year-old Zhu and wife were recently granted an option to buy the property on Yarwood Avenue as trustee for a nearly 3-year-old child. Regarded…

Hike in BTO supply may ease HDB resale price surge, but construction delays still a concern "One of the main reasons people turn to the resale market is because they can't afford the longer waiting time which comes with…

Omicron to be dominant in Europe by mid-January, EU warns European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Omicron case numbers appear to be doubling every 2 or 3 days. The bloc's leaders are meeting in Brussels t…

Vast study confirms rare heart risk from Moderna jab The study, done on the entire population of Denmark, found that "vaccination with mRNA-1273 (Moderna) was associated with a significantly increased rate of myocarditis…

#BTExplains: Why might MAS buy gold? What's the deal with gold, and why should the Monetary Authority Of Singapore need to buy it to add to our reserves? BT's Kelly Ng dives in to explain why it's important to do so, and…

Woman arrested, S$4.4m seized in Singapore-HK joint op against suspected cross-border pump-and-dump syndicate The simultaneous joint operation by Singapore and Hong Kong securities regulators and police is the first of i…

Increased supply from MND's confirmed-list private housing may not sate developers' appetite Even though the government is upping the supply of homes by about 40 per cent for the next half of the year, some observers say…

Bukit Timah condo project Perfect Ten dangles 5% discount amid cooling measures Its developer CK Asset Holdings decided to offer the discount as a token of appreciation for the support from prospective buyers, and "as a…