The Business Times

#BTOpinion: Investing and gambling in the Year of the Tiger In this week's #Mark2Market column, BT's Ben Paul contemplates the subtleties of investing as opposed to gambling, and posits that among today's hottest investm…

Surge in Singapore retail properties put up for auction in 2021: Knight Frank Among the mortgagee-sale listings, a 1-bedroom condominium unit at D'Oasia changed hands at S$700,000 in Q4 last year. In the luxury segment,…

Corporate gifting grows during Covid-19, businesses expect higher sales this Chinese New Year Local gift companies polled by The Business Times said order volumes from corporate clients have either held steady or grown s…

Cautious optimism about Singapore's economy in 2022 despite uncertainty over Omicron and China: PM Lee While the Omicron wave has gone up quickly in the developed world, it looks like it is coming down quite fast, he add…

CEO Fernandes unfazed by AirAsia's 'financially distressed' label "If you look at the classification, it is purely accounting and in fact, the solution has nothing to do with liquidity," said Fernandes at a press confere…

Latest EDB board movements include Labour MP Desmond Choo joining, exits of Grab co-founder & Patrick Tay Apart from being assistant secretary-general of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), Desmond Choo is the tru…

Hong Kong's growth slows as Omicron outbreak weighs on economy Gross domestic product expanded 4.8 per cent last quarter from a year earlier, weaker than the 5 per cent median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of 12 economi…

Singapore property firms deepening presence in Vietnam The Vietnamese posh apartment segment in particular has surged in popularity and caught the eye of developers as the nation's affluent class grows, and Singapore fir…

#BTOpinion: The law exodus: Where is the Promised Land? It seems like a really good time to be a lawyer. But young associates are quitting in unprecedented numbers. Is it simply a matter of too much work, or is there a d…

Marriages back to pre-Covid levels; smaller than expected fall in birth numbers: PM Lee In 2020, the total number of marriages registered saw the biggest drop since 2000, down 10.9 per cent year on year to 22,651. The De…

Young lawyers find fulfilment, balance as they strike out on their own Many of them (some as young as 29) hailed from prominent firms, and some were even on track to be made partners at the time they left — but they tell…

Skills mismatch could constrain Singapore's labour market recovery: economists Even for sectors such as financial services and information communication which have continued expanding their headcount over the last 2 year…

Abandoned by power retailers, SMEs zapped by electricity bill shock One engineering firm owner saw his December electricity bill from SP quadruple to S$8,000 after iSwitch tapped out. Another, who runs a sewing workshop,…

More contracts with fixed prices to be offered to large electricity consumers: EMA The authority said it has received feedback that some large businesses are facing difficulties in renewing their contracts or obtaining n…

Royal Caribbean cancels cruise sailings on Jan 31 and Feb 3 after Covid-19 outbreak Those scheduled to sail on Jan 31 will receive a full refund plus a 100 per cent credit for future bookings. Those booked on the Feb 3 s…

OCBC completes arrangements for full payouts to all 790 SMS phishing victims; S$13.7m in losses The bank decided to make the full payout as a "one-off gesture of goodwill" given the circumstances of this scam. "We also t…