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Property cooling measures could increase demand for rental housing: analysts Some 58,613 condo units were rented out in 2021, 6.8 per cent higher than the amount recorded in 2020. Meanwhile, the full-year rental volume f…

Google launches professional certificates in Singapore, forms employer consortium Learners can earn a Google Career Certificate on online learning platform Coursera within 3 to 6 months through self-paced programmes. Goo…

87 companies accounted for almost 80% of proposed audit fixes from 2018 to 2020: Acra Over the 3-year period, there were 165 sets of financial statements from 87 companies, which collectively accounted for S$62.3 billion…

BT’s Top Stories from Last Week: 1. MAS, CAD investigating online trading platform Samtrade FX; 3 arrested bt.sg/Jpiq 2. Peter Kwee's new Nassim project aims at super wealthy, with an eye on S$6,000 psf bt.sg/JMmD 3. Cro…

Indonesia rolls out booster shots, amid fears of Omicron spread The booster rollout comes amid concern about the spread of the Omicron variant in Indonesia, which on Tuesday recorded 802 new cases, the highest in almost…

Indonesia's Karim Family Foundation raises S$200,000 to support badminton world champion Loh Kean Yew Cindy Karim, the foundation's principal, said the family was "inspired" by Loh's perseverance and humility "even after…

Meet Harry Hindsight, the world's best investor In a world of significant uncertainty and complexity, there are always reasons not to invest. So, what should these investors do today? Here are 3 pieces of advice.

Neil Road shophouse up for sale with S$16.2m guide price Foreigners are eligible to purchase the property on 51 Neil Road, and the sale will not incur additional buyer's stamp duty or seller's stamp duty. The shophouse h…

Flight bookings for Singapore travel spike before halt of VTL ticket sales in December Ticketing data provider ForwardKeys noted that outbound ticket sales jumped to over 4 times the daily average of the previous week, w…

Cathay Pacific faces 'legal action' over Hong Kong virus outbreak: Lam A recent outbreak traced to Cathay air crew who breached home quarantine has sparked a dramatic tightening of already strict social distancing contro…

#BTOpinion: Give developers leeway to adjust prices and pay fat commissions at new home launches In his latest #TheLevelGround column, BT’s Leslie Yee breaks down market watchers' concern for pricing transparency and com…

Repeated Covid boosters not a viable strategy, says WHO, as Omicron variant pushes Covid-19 out of a pandemic phase The spread of the Omicron variant is pushing Covid-19 towards being an endemic disease that humanity can…

Investing in proptech and other innovations for a sustainable future PGIM Real Estate sees merits in repurposing or refreshing old buildings under the group's portfolio, rather than tearing them down and rebuilding from…

Singapore's resale condo market post strong showing in 2021, prices up 10.3%: SRX, 99.co Condo resale prices in all regions saw gains. The outside of central region (OCR) saw the largest increase at 11 per cent, followed…

A smart look at investing: How Netflix took over Hollywood and the world Co-founder of The Smart Investor Chin Hui Leong reflects on 15 years of holding shares of Netflix, and shares 15 highlights and lessons from the jo…

#BTOpinion: 'I have seen the future, and it works.' But is it Web3? What exactly is Web3, what does it mean to have a decentralised Internet, and how should investors navigate the minefield of experimental protocols and…

"People. One hundred percent our people. (They are) The first, the second and the third." This from Victor Khaw, general manager of Singapore firm AllAlloy Dynaweld, who focused over the past year on improving the safety…

Singapore's new private home sales fall 58% in Dec on cooling measures, holiday season On a year-on-year basis, the latest estimates are 47.2 per cent lower than the 1,217 new private homes sold in December 2020.

New securities for transfer of official foreign reserves will not increase risks: Wong MAS accumulates official foreign reserves (OFR) in the process of managing the Singapore dollar. Official foreign reserves above the…

GST hike cannot be put off forever but impact can be delayed: Indranee "It's not something we can put off forever, but the exact timing is something that we have to think about. In deciding the timing for the GST hike, w…

#BTOpinion: CDL will be a key beneficiary in the collective sale of Tanglin Shopping Centre In today's #HockLockSiew, BT's Kalpana Rashiwala notes that the mainboard-listed group, through Millennium & Copthorne Hotels, o…

Singapore Airlines aims to raise US$500m-750m in US bond deal: sources The airline has mandated banks to work on the transaction and will start briefings with investors about the deal on Tuesday (Jan 11), a term sheet se…

US CDC updates Singapore Covid advisory, resolving data flap The advisory on travel to Singapore is now revised from "Unknown" to "High".

Our correspondents in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur were at a Regional Outlook Forum organised by the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. Here are their reports on the challenges ahead for Indonesia and Malaysia in 2022: Consumer co…

Don't rush into 'hasty legislation' on working from home: Gan Siow Huang Might it make sense for Singapore at some point to introduce the right to work from home, and/or to bar employers from contacting staff outside wor…

Hatten Land partner confirms first shipment of 80 crypto mining rigs The rigs, which will mine Bitcoin, will commence operations this month after delivery and installation in Melaka. Hatten's partnership with Frontier Di…

Singapore security firm MD started company to train up security guards properly, and also to treat them well As a property manager in the early 2000s, post-9/11, Alvin Lee was struck by the state of the security sector a…

mm2 Asia to launch NFT marketplace for entertainment, media digital collectibles The Metaviva marketplace will serve as a hub for consumers to purchase, trade, sell and store digital tokens and will be interoperable acro…

World's biggest crypto fortune began with a friendly poker game After spending some time studying it, Changpeng Zhao took the plunge and ended up selling his apartment for Bitcoin. In 2017, he founded Binance (a portmant…

Carsome raises US$290m Series E round from Temasek-backed 65 Equity Partners and Seatown This funding round comes as speculation arose over a possible US$200 million pre-IPO round in September 2021, and values Carsome at…