The Business Times

#BTLifestyle: White Marble takes the Mediterranean route More good cafe than great restaurant, the cooking is agreeable enough but is standard hotel fare - or maybe a notch below some of the newer hotels which have rampe…

Musk secures US$46.5b in funding for Twitter bid Musk's latest move comes after Twitter failed to respond to his offer and adopted of a "poison pill" to thwart the billionaire's effort to buy the social media platform fo…

#BRUNCH: How will the return to office play out for the office market? Hybrid working is here to stay, but the Singapore office market still has many positives going for it, including diversity of tenant mix. Flexible wo…

[BREAKING] Singapore mandates Covid-19 boosters for recovered individuals from June 1 Persons aged 60 and above can receive their second booster by walking into any Vaccination Centre offering mRNA vaccines, before 7pm.

[BREAKING] No more tests for vaccinated travellers to Singapore from Apr 26 Entry requirements for non-fully vaccinated travellers remain unchanged. Non-fully vaccinated Long-Term Pass Holders (LTPHs) and Short-Term Visi…

[BREAKING] Singapore lifts most Covid-19 curbs from Apr 26, including group size limits, safe distancing All workers may now return to the workplace though flexible work arrangements are still encouraged. Notwithstanding…

HDB resale prices rise for 8th straight month, up 2.4% in Q1 This came despite lower transaction volume, which fell 12.7 per cent quarter on quarter to 6,934 cases. Compared to the Q1 2021, transactions fell by 8.5 per c…

Expat bankers fleeing Hong Kong see no easy escape to Singapore Stricter visa requirements, hiring restrictions and other bureaucratic road blocks mean that the influx of bankers into Singapore from Hong Kong in recent m…

Singapore to have world's largest sustainable aviation fuel output capacity Neste will be able to roll out as much as 1 million metric tonnes of SAF a year at its 1.5 billion euro (S$2.2 billion) Tuas refinery next year,…

Prudential, former top agency manager reach settlement, drop appeals Peter Tan Shou Yi had been found liable by the High Court for poaching more than 220 Prudential agents for rival Aviva in mid 2016 and ordered to pay P…

As Malaysia reopens to the world, airlines see healthy pick-up in flight bookings AirAsia expects return to 100% of pre-Covid capacity on key routes by end-2022; MAS seeing load factor of over 80% on most of its upcoming…

All eyes on CDL, MCL's launch of Piccadilly Grand this weekend Prices at Piccadilly Grand start at S$1.058 million for a one-bedroom apartment, which translates to about S$2,186 per square foot (psf), and go up to over S…

What Singapore's next leader says about China, racism and expats As a window into how he might lead Singapore, here are excerpts from recent speeches and comments by finance minister Lawrence Wong. While it reflects the…

Banks in Singapore taking fixed-rate home loans off the shelf amid surging cost of funds The Standard Chartered spokesperson added that there is “no certainty” StanChart will bring back fixed-rate home loan packages. “It…

China's Xiaohongshu kicks off staff layoffs: source The Shanghai-based company, whose backers include Singaporean state investor Temasek Holdings, follows the same job-cutting moves by other Chinese tech giants, such as…

Singapore-based halal cosmetics company raises US$55m in Series C funding led by Venturi Believe was established in mid-2019 and is said to have raised over US$80 million over the last 2 years. According to its chief exe…

Elon Musk's Boring Co. raises funding at nearly US$6b valuation Boring Co. aims to "solve traffic" by building transportation networks in tunnels deep underground. The company already has a tunnel system in place at the…