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Singapore to study viable decarbonisation strategies in push for more sustainable urban environment The aim is to help best-in-class green buildings make an 80% improvement in energy efficiency from 2005 levels.

Bukit Sembawang prices 8@BT from S$2,530 psf About half of the 158-unit condominium are one- and two-bedroom units

#Brunch: Taking smugglers to tusk: Singapore’s firmer stance against illegal wildlife trafficking sends a big signal The move to classify wildlife offences under the Organised Crime Act will do more to nab ‘kingpins’, ra…

Has Warren Buffett lost his touch? Berkshire’s cash is no longer the only source of succour for big companies in a spot of bother, now that US$2.2 trillion in dry powder is burning a hole in private-equity barons’ pocket…

Tepid take-up of new guidelines on property agent commissions The new guidelines were meant to change the longstanding practice of private property buyers not paying a commission to the agents representing them.

#BTOpinion: Be careful what you wish for: Why a Fed cut makes life easier and harder for Asian central banks An expected reduction in US interest rates cannot come soon enough for some of Asia’s central banks, but their…

Distrii Singapore sues ex-CEO for allegedly causing its failure to pay CDL over S$2 million in rent The company claims Hu Yan had siphoned funds for her own benefit since 2020.

DBS names Calvin Ong as new Singapore consumer banking head He spent eight of his 17 years with DBS in the bank’s corporate treasury, where he was deputy corporate treasurer.

Rate cuts may boost esoteric fund financing but its unfamiliarity to S-E Asia’s lenders may be an issue New forms of financing could pop up with the expected cut in the US federal funds rate, but the region’s fund financ…

UOB prices £750 million in floating rate covered bonds This is the largest order book for the bank in British-pound covered bonds.

Start your day with BT ☕️: Stocks to watch: Nio Top stories 1. Companies: Undertaker Roland Tay fined S$12,000, ordered to pay penalty of S$529,321 for tax offences 2. Wealth: Grindr shareholder one of two expats-turned-…