The Business Times

#BTLifestyle: Sushi Kou to close on Mar 31 amid spate of resignations The top Japanese restaurant will see most of its current team including its head chef leaving to open a new restaurant with a different investor. Also…

Large supermarkets must charge at least S$0.05 for disposable carrier bags It will cover about two-thirds of all supermarket outlets in Singapore, including NTUC FairPrice, Cold Storage, Giant, Sheng Siong and Prime supe…

PODCAST: In this 114th episode of Money Hacks, correspondent Howie Lim speaks to Robin Lee, CEO and co-founder of HelloGold who gives his rather unconventional take on gold as an investment and safe haven asset. #btpodca…

#BTOPINION: Time for investors, corporate sector to address geopolitical risk alongside ESG considerations In the latest #MARKTOMARKET, BT writes that beyond taking advantage of trading opportunities in energy companies,…

Strong enforcement measures will guard against new EP system fraud "Employers certainly will not be able to get away with changing the job title to claim bonus points," said Manpower Minister Tan See Leng. "We will not h…

Strata units in GB Building for sale; Oxley Tower F&B units re-launched at lower guide price The building falls under the Singapore government's CBD Incentive Scheme, which allows for a higher gross plot ratio for the co…

EY appoints new country managing partner for Singapore, Brunei EY on Monday (Mar 7) said it will be appointing Liew Nam Soon as its new country managing partner for Singapore and Brunei. He will take over the role from M…

Binance acquires stake in Malaysian fintech company MX Global "We believe that partnering with MX Global will be a springboard to new opportunities, both in Malaysia and the region as a whole as well as across the entire…

Singtel's NCS acquires Aussie IT company The Dialog Group for A$325m In an interview with BT, NCS chief executive Ng Kuo Pin said that the move would help the information and communications technology (ICT) subsidiary ga…

Grab faces possible class action suits from US shareholder rights law firms Stock drop lawsuits are legal suits brought against a company when its share price drops sharply, causing substantial losses for shareholders. P…

Singapore O&G gets S$0.295-a-share takeover offer from vehicle linked to Dymon Asia The offer sponsor, Hanaan Health Group, is majority-held by a special purpose vehicle that is in turn wholly-owned by Dymon Asia Private…

New tripartite standard on how firms should improve well-being of lower-wage workers The new standards will, among other things, encourage employers to provide better workplace support for lower-wage workers, focusing on…

Price of 95-octane petrol surges past S$3 per litre at Shell 95-octane fuel rose 21 cents to S$3.06 per litre at Shell and 13 cents to S$2.98 at Caltex — up from S$2.85 at both providers as at Feb 25. At Esso, the price…

IMDA concludes anti-SMS spoofing registry pilot, starts onboarding process The Singapore SMS SenderID Registry (SSIR) has started getting banks, government agencies and other interested organisations on its system to pro…

[Latest on the Russia-Ukraine war:] Kyiv digs in for battle as fighting flares in areas nearby In Irpin, a town some 25 km north-west of Kyiv, men, women and children trying to escape armed clashes in the area were force…

#BTOpinion: New EP framework gives clarity — now firms have to act on this knowledge In this piece, BT's Janice Heng looks at the government's new complementarity assessment framework for EP applications, and notes that…

SGX suspends trading of PJSC Gazprom GDR on Russia sanctions SGX RegCo said it will suspend the admission to trading of the global depository receipts "to ensure that the market is fair, orderly and transparent", and suc…

Retail in the doldrums even as S-Reits see recovery in rental reversions Amid geopolitical tensions, a third of the 44 S-Reits - including 6 of the top 15 by market cap - are trading within 5% of their 52-week lows.

Oil price surges to highest since 2008 on delays in Iranian talks In the first few minutes of trade on Sunday, both benchmarks rose to their highest since July 2008 with Brent at US$139.13 a barrel and WTI at US$130.50.…

#BTOpinion: A carbon scorecard to help people make environmentally-friendly day-to-day choices Economics professors Sumit Agarwal and Alberto Salvo argue in this piece that all of society needs to engage in the transitio…

Streamlined entry requirements for construction, marine shipyard, process workers From Mar 13, the existing procedure will be streamlined into a shorter 2-day pre-departure preparatory programme in the source country. Th…

Transaction volumes at Sentosa Cove may moderate after ABSD hike While Singaporeans and PRs are still looking to Sentosa for their first homes, there have been no landed sales to foreigners so far this year, based on the…