The Business Times

Start your day with BT ☕️: Stocks to watch: Keppel Reit, Paragon Reit, SingPost Top stories 1. Companies: Singapore flags corporate service providers, real estate among non-bank money laundering risks 2. Companies: Parag…

Japan’s stock market revival could hold lessons for Singapore despite fundamental differences The Straits Times Index has gained a modest 4.8% in the year to date.

Greater interest in private credit as investors move away from bonds as hedging tools: UBS forum panellist Bobby Jain, Jain Global’s CEO, says many investors are ‘underweight’ in alternative assets, including private cre…

Civil servants to get 0.45-month mid-year bonus; one-time payment of up to S$250 for junior officers This is the highest such bonus since before the pandemic in 2019.

Passenger car COE premiums bounce back after previous round’s drop Category A at S$90,889 and Category B at S$102,334, while open and goods vehicle categories both post decreases.

Singapore flags corporate service providers, real estate among non-bank money laundering risks The banking sector is assessed to pose the highest money-laundering risk to the country.

#BTOpinion: Singapore needs a trained workforce to become an AI capital Despite their optimism in AI’s economic potential, Singaporeans are more concerned about AI job redundancy than workers elsewhere.

Latest Singapore 6-month T-bill offers cut-off yield of 3.74% Demand has increased, with applications totalling S$15.5 billion for the S$6.6 billion on offer.

Booking.com sounds alarm on AI-enabled travel scams Travel websites can offer a rich bounty to phishing scammers since travellers are often asked to share credit card and family details or upload ID.

Singapore’s re-entry rate of retrenched workers down, job vacancies up in Q1 It falls to 59.4 per cent in Q1, from 61.5 per cent the previous quarter.

Start your day with BT ☕️: Stocks to watch: Seatrium, Wing Tai Top stories 1. Property: Site near Great World City draws two bids; top bid of S$1,325 psf ppr from Wing Tai 2. Property: No bids for Upper Thomson Road hous…

Malaysia, China mark 50 years of ties with deals on development, durians China also agreed to allow imports of fresh durian from Malaysia after it meets sanitary requirements.

After success in China, homegrown retailer Motherswork takes on South-east Asia The retailer of premium mother and baby products plans to open flagship stores in the region’s biggest cities.

HDB launches nearly 7,000 BTO flats in June exercise The projects are in Jurong East, Kallang/Whampoa, Queenstown, Tampines, Woodlands and Yishun.

JTC commits S$4 million to support Jurong Innovation District tenants’ carbon-saving solutions It will partner its tenants and lessees to reduce Scope 3 emissions in the industrial estate.

#BTOpinion: Shareholders deserve more metrics against which they can benchmark CEO pay Shareholders deserve to know why compensation is deserved.

KKR-Singtel consortium to invest S$1.75 billion in data centre provider ST Telemedia GDC Deal is said to be this year’s largest digital infrastructure investment so far in S-E Asia; the companies will inject an additiona…

Start your day with BT ☕️: Stocks to watch: Singtel, SIA, Seatrium, Mooreast, Sabana Reit Top stories 1. Companies: SIA Group passenger traffic rises 10.2% in May 2. Companies: Temasek to divest entire stake in Pavilion…

From sails to wings: Maritime players innovate on fuel efficiency As green shipping fuels takes up more space on a ship, the need for technology that can improve fuel efficiency is much needed.

Ex-Foodpanda CEO speaks out after abrupt exit from firm “As the CEO of Foodpanda, I was exposed to confidential information. At that point in time, I chose to share this … with somebody who was very close to me and who I…

Singapore’s May air freight jumps 20%; port’s box throughput highest this year MPA statistics show there were 12.7 per cent fewer containerships calling at the Republic in the month.

Singapore-based Trafigura tops inaugural Fortune 500 ranking for S-E Asia Wilmar, Olam, Flex, DBS among top 10; the inaugural list includes companies from seven nations in the region.

New private home sales in May plunge 78.7% year on year URA data shows just 221 condos were sold in the month.

Voter rolls updated; public inspection opens from June 19 to July 2 The exercise to bring the registers up to date comes amid speculation that the next general election, which must be held by November 2025, may be called…

OCBC launches new tool that uses AI to pick stocks AI OCBC Securities’ Customer Artificial Intelligence Radar can predict share price movements, generate personalised stock ideas.

SingHaiyi-led group to launch Jurong East condo Sora at S$2,180 psf average Sora is located along Yuan Ching Road, near the upcoming Jurong Lake District.

Sabana Reit denies allegations that bond issuance is ‘highly abnormal’ or ‘impedes internalisation’ Quarz Capital alleges that the bond issuance is ‘highly abnormal’ and may put the trust in ‘financial jeopardy’.