The Business Times

Collective sale market faces rougher terrain in 2022 In view of the recent property cooling measures, developers need to be more cautious as overpriced sites are unlikely to find buyers amongst new risks faced this year.…

KFC to launch Beyond Meat fried 'chicken' across United States KFC started testing Beyond's plant-based chicken in August 2019 in Atlanta and expanded to more areas the following year. It will from Jan 10 roll out Beyond…

COE premiums fall in most categories at end of first tender of 2022 This buckled earlier predictions that premiums would continue to rise after shooting up at the end of the last year.

[JUST IN]: Closing Vaccinated Travel Lanes will do little to stop or curb the spread of Omicron, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said. He added that rules had already been tightened to contain the Omicron variant. For instan…

[JUST IN]: Family physicians will be allowed to treat mildly symptomatic Covid-19-positive patients through a new protocol previously reserved only for the asymptomatic. GPs will be able to make an immediate diagnosis vi…

[JUST IN]: From Feb 14, an individual's fully-vaccinated status will expire 270 days after the last dose of his or her primary series of vaccinations. It is only after he or she has received his or her booster vaccine do…

BT’s Top Stories from Last Week: 1. Chinese tech giants on talent poaching spree in Singapore bt.sg/JUzT 2. Singapore's GDP to grow 3-5% in 2022, says PM Lee as he outlines reasons for coming GST hike bt.sg/JiEs 3. Nearl…

Crowdfund for badminton world champion Loh Kean Yew draws over S$108,000 in 2 days, more donations pouring in The public online donation campaign has since raised over S$108,000 by 11pm Tuesday (Jan 4), which included a…

Developers to give homebuyers more information, simpler payment schedule among URA's proposed changes URA is looking to revise the Housing Developers Rules, and have put these proposed changes up for public feedback — th…

US CDC reclassifies Covid-19 travel advisory for Singapore to 'unknown' What the US is saying is the level of Covid-19 in Singapore is "unknown", and therefore Americans are not advised to travel here. Singapore is now c…

End of an era for iconic handset BlackBerry on Jan 4, 2022 The classic handsets running BlackBerry's in-house software "will no longer be expected to reliably function" after Tuesday, according to its end-of-life page.

Sharpened focus on sustainability brings opportunities for future growth Keppel's efforts to rejig its portfolio have been evident across the entire group, with changes in each business segment. bt.sg/JNm2

Tencent plans to sell a stake in Singapore's Sea for up to US$3b The Chinese internet giant is offering 14.5 million shares in Sea, a stake of 2.6 per cent, at a discount of as much as 6.9 per cent to Sea's close of US$2…

Kwee's new Nassim luxury project aims at the super wealthy, with an eye on S$6,000 psf The freehold Nassim Quattro, a 4-unit complex in the Nassim enclave, was originally developed for motoring tycoon Peter Kwee's family…

US sets global record of over 1 million daily Covid-19 cases There were 1,080,211 new cases in the country, with the number of cases doubling on the previous week. It comes a day after top US pandemic advisor Anthony Fau…

Beijing meets state air quality standards for first time in 2021 Average PM2.5 particle readings reached 33 micrograms per cubic metre in Beijing over the whole of 2021, down 13 per cent compared to a year earlier and me…

Covid jabs, tests boost demand for medical services at turn of year The Omicron variant, the resumption of travel and the return to the workplace are among factors that have all resulted in continued strong demand for Co…