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Furniture or sculpture? Le Gall blurs the line The French designer’s solo exhibition at Cuturi Gallery features some of his best pieces.

Olafur Eliasson’s sensory spectacle at SAM One of the world’s most celebrated artists, Olafur Eliasson, has just opened a solo show at the Singapore Art Museum (SAM).

Ichigo Ichie – new location, safe cooking at this Japanese kappo Chef Akane Eno’s menu fills you up but doesn’t quite satisfy, says our food critic Jaime Ee.

Gifts for the mums in our midst For Mother’s Day this Sunday, take your pick from luxury goods and pretty cakes to last-minute gifts.

#Brunch: No child’s play: The changing landscape for preschools Investors are keen on Singapore’s preschools post-Covid, even as sector faces consolidation.

Mother’s Day gift guide: Incredible gifts for incredible women From eccentric bouquets to riveting reads, here are gifts to suit all kinds of mums.

Hot stock: Great Eastern shares jump 39% as OCBC mounts S$1.4 billion privatisation offer at S$25.60 per share OCBC group chief executive Helen Wong said that the privatisation offer is a natural progression of OCBC’s st…

OCBC CEO confident on 2024 performance as Q1 profit rises 5% to S$1.98 billion The move to wholly acquire Great Eastern should also add to the bank’s return on equity, she says.

Singapore’s 2023 tourism receipts hit S$27.2 billion; may reach record S$29 billion in 2024 As at April, Singapore received 5.7 million tourists, which is about 90% of the figures for the same period in 2019.

Frasers Property in talks to sell serviced apartments, former Zouk warehouses in Jiak Kim Street, say sources An entity linked to Tuan Sing Holdings is tipped as the prospective buyer. The Business Times understands that…

Porsche to open S$100 million ‘experiential centre’ in Changi by 2027 It will have a 2 km test-drive track and an aftersales facility.

Hin Leong founder OK Lim found guilty of 3 criminal charges of cheating, forgery The charges involved a total of US$111.7 million.

Start your day with BT ☕️: Stocks to watch: OCBC, Sri Trang Gloves, Wilmar, Great Eastern, F&N, SingPost Top stories 1. Companies: OCBC makes S$1.4 billion offer to delist Great Eastern 2. Property: Frasers Property in t…

OCBC Q1 profit rises 5% to S$1.98 billion This beats the S$1.85 billion consensus forecast in a Bloomberg survey.

Singapore energy scene in no danger of shakeup even as oil giants rejig portfolios: observers Shell, which is listed in London, began a strategic review of its Energy and Chemicals Park assets on Pulau Bukom and Jurong I…

Shophouse sales surge and at higher prices in Q1 as high-net-worth investors return to market: Knight Frank Overall average unit price rose 27.1% to S$5,566 per square foot (psf) on land, compared with the S$4,380 psf on…

VIDEO: Boeing cargo plane lands in Istanbul without front landing gear A FedEx Airlines Boeing 767 cargo plane landed at Istanbul Airport on Wed (May 8) without its front landing gear, a Turkish Transport Ministry offici…

Latest Singapore 6-month T-bill offers cut-off yield of 3.7% This is down from the 3.74% offered in the previous six-month auction.

LHN’s Coliwoo, Oxley boss tie up to buy Wilmer Place for S$26.5 million Located within Singapore’s civic and cultural district, Armenian Street houses the Peranakan Museum and the Substation.

UOB awards Wong Kan Seng over S$400,000 in shares Wong, who is UOB's chairman, received 13,700 shares, worth S$418,672.

Hot stock: AEM hits 4-year low after Q1 earnings miss The semiconductor equipment maker’s shares falls as much as 14.7% in early trading.

Mirxes records US$58.7 million operating losses and US$24.2 million revenue in lead up to HK listing Mirxes attributed the increased losses primarily to higher spending on research and development, which grew 22.3% year…

Start your day with BT ☕️: Stocks to watch: Frasers Hospitality Trust, AEM, ARA H-Trust, Mermaid Maritime Top stories 1. Companies: Singapore has to be realistic on global trends plaguing its stock market: DPM Wong 2. Si…

DBS hires chief of Ping An’s tech group to fix outage issues Eugene Huang, with more than 36 years of technology and banking experience under his belt, will be under pressure to fix several outage issues that have plague…

Government probes ‘misleading’ and ‘unrealistic’ resale listings for S$2 million HDB flats A ‘jumbo flat’ in Sengkang and a five-room resale flat in Toa Payoh were recently listed for S$2 million each.

Big car COE premiums top S$105,000 as mainstream cars hover below S$95,000 Price for a Category B Certificate of Entitlement sees its fourth consecutive increase.

Shell to sell Singapore oil refinery, chemicals assets to Glencore joint venture The transaction is expected to complete by the end of 2024.