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A smart look at investing: How Netflix took over Hollywood and the world Co-founder of The Smart Investor Chin Hui Leong reflects on 15 years of holding shares of Netflix, and shares 15 highlights and lessons from the jo…

#BTOpinion: 'I have seen the future, and it works.' But is it Web3? What exactly is Web3, what does it mean to have a decentralised Internet, and how should investors navigate the minefield of experimental protocols and…

"People. One hundred percent our people. (They are) The first, the second and the third." This from Victor Khaw, general manager of Singapore firm AllAlloy Dynaweld, who focused over the past year on improving the safety…

Singapore's new private home sales fall 58% in Dec on cooling measures, holiday season On a year-on-year basis, the latest estimates are 47.2 per cent lower than the 1,217 new private homes sold in December 2020.

New securities for transfer of official foreign reserves will not increase risks: Wong MAS accumulates official foreign reserves (OFR) in the process of managing the Singapore dollar. Official foreign reserves above the…

GST hike cannot be put off forever but impact can be delayed: Indranee "It's not something we can put off forever, but the exact timing is something that we have to think about. In deciding the timing for the GST hike, w…

#BTOpinion: CDL will be a key beneficiary in the collective sale of Tanglin Shopping Centre In today's #HockLockSiew, BT's Kalpana Rashiwala notes that the mainboard-listed group, through Millennium & Copthorne Hotels, o…

Singapore Airlines aims to raise US$500m-750m in US bond deal: sources The airline has mandated banks to work on the transaction and will start briefings with investors about the deal on Tuesday (Jan 11), a term sheet se…

US CDC updates Singapore Covid advisory, resolving data flap The advisory on travel to Singapore is now revised from "Unknown" to "High".

Our correspondents in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur were at a Regional Outlook Forum organised by the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. Here are their reports on the challenges ahead for Indonesia and Malaysia in 2022: Consumer co…

Don't rush into 'hasty legislation' on working from home: Gan Siow Huang Might it make sense for Singapore at some point to introduce the right to work from home, and/or to bar employers from contacting staff outside wor…

Hatten Land partner confirms first shipment of 80 crypto mining rigs The rigs, which will mine Bitcoin, will commence operations this month after delivery and installation in Melaka. Hatten's partnership with Frontier Di…

Singapore security firm MD started company to train up security guards properly, and also to treat them well As a property manager in the early 2000s, post-9/11, Alvin Lee was struck by the state of the security sector a…

mm2 Asia to launch NFT marketplace for entertainment, media digital collectibles The Metaviva marketplace will serve as a hub for consumers to purchase, trade, sell and store digital tokens and will be interoperable acro…

World's biggest crypto fortune began with a friendly poker game After spending some time studying it, Changpeng Zhao took the plunge and ended up selling his apartment for Bitcoin. In 2017, he founded Binance (a portmant…

Carsome raises US$290m Series E round from Temasek-backed 65 Equity Partners and Seatown This funding round comes as speculation arose over a possible US$200 million pre-IPO round in September 2021, and values Carsome at…

Maybank Singapore woos near-retirees to grow Older customers are stickier and may be less inclined to make the switch to digital banks, making this segment less competitive.

Families to have priority for new prime location HDB flats, to keep flats affordable: MND The ministry reiterated on Monday that singles who can form a family unit with their parent(s) or single sibling(s) whose parents…