The Business Times

Sim Lian bags Tampines site for S$543 million at record EC land rate With a land rate of S$721 psf ppr, an industry player estimates the average selling price for the Tampines EC site will likely exceed S$1,500 psf.

Healthtech unicorn Biofourmis carries out another round of layoffs, 45 staff in Singapore let go: sources Biofourmis will also be vacating its office space in Singapore by December, with the remaining employees working f…

Far East Shopping Centre mega deal, state land sales prop up Q3 investment sales Commercial property deals in Q3 rose 23.3% to S$1.5 billion, largely due to the sale of Changi City Point and Far East Shopping Centre.

Singaporeans’ plans to visit Israel on hold after Hamas attack MFA had advised Singaporeans to avoid all travel to the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Israel’s borders with the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria.

#BTOpinion: Are Reits friends or foes of space users? Could Reits harm the growth of an entrepreneurial culture? Some Reits may avoid leasing space to startups or small enterprises, who cannot afford high rents.

All eyes on Vietnam’s VNG as it seeks to be first to achieve dual listing VNG's backers include Singapore’s Seletar Investments (a unit of Temasek Holdings) and GIC, China’s Tencent and Ant Group.

#BTOpinion: Oil price rise ignites new inflation impulse It will be interesting to see if the recent rise in oil prices prompts MAS to take any action when it releases its policy statement this week.

How total strangers sneak cash out of China for country’s rich One popular technique, called “smurfing”, involves recruiting people on the mainland who have not used their legitimate remittance quotas of US$50,000.

Singapore dollar’s heydays seen numbered as exports lose steam Singapore’s non-oil exports declined for an 11th month in August, signalling deteriorating global demand will be a challenge for the Singapore dollar given t…

Israel conflict could stoke greater volatility, inflationary pressures for crude oil, stock markets An observer says the latest development in Israel “poses significant uncertainty to energy markets”, but the current oil…

TikTok Singapore’s operations in Vietnam violate local laws, say authorities “If cross-border platforms do not comply with local regulations, they are unwelcome in Vietnam,” says the director of the department of radio,…

Lured by positive yield spread, Singapore investors pile into Japanese real estate Big spenders include GIC, Mapletree Logistics Trust and real estate group CapitaLand Investment.