The Business Times

Bentleys, Bitcoin and bungalow karaoke: Crazy rich Asians or red flags? They rock up to house viewings in Bentleys and Rolls-Royces, offering to pay in Bitcoin. Others contact real estate agents here from remote location…

Rolex and Patek keep falling as Cartier shines: Subdial Index The Rolex Daytona 16520, with a steel tachymeter bezel, was the best performer over 30 days, gaining 0.5% to trade at an average price of US$30,976.

#Brunch: Decarbonising heavy vehicles no small task – but worth the effort While cars and light-goods vehicles are going electric, the move for heavy-goods vehicles looks to have stalled - and they are the big polluters…

#PE2023: Highlights of Candidates’ Broadcast How will presidential candidates Ng Kok Song, Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Tan Kin Lian seek to bolster Singapore's future? Hear their strategies on unity, non-partisan governan…

Fall in Singapore’s factory output slows in July, down 0.9% Factory output fell 0.9% year on year in July, contracting at a slower rate than in the month before, as the key electronics segment bounced back into growth.

Hong Kong sushi restaurants brace for cost jump after Japan seafood ban Hong Kong is blocking purchases of seafood from 10 Japanese prefectures, including Tokyo. Violations of the ban are punishable by up to a year in ja…

Funding winter, higher costs complicate Bengaluru’s position as India’s Silicon Valley The decline in VC funding has meant that startups are “shuttling between (being) a cockroach and a unicorn”, said Sanath Kumar, CEO o…

New ETF referencing Vietnam’s 30 largest corporates lists on SGX It comprises companies such as Vietnam’s biggest listed property player Vinhomes, industrial machinery manufacturer Hoa Phat Group, and financial investmen…

US trading house sues Singapore firm over alleged nickel fraud US trading house Kataman Metals alleges it paid US$3.3 million for nickel from New Alloys Trading only to discover when it opened the containers that there w…

US Fed officials see rates close to peak, differ on how close One official says the US economy has not yet slowed enough to put inflation on a sustainable trajectory downward, which suggests the Fed may need to raise rat…

Singapore, Qatar boost cooperation in digitalisation, education, water-related research and more The Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that Singapore and Qatar share similar challenges as small states and both can learn…