The Business Times

The 10 top-performing ETFs on SGX in Q3; China funds dominate The rally was heavily concentrated in technology, growth, and A-share benchmarks.

🥵Hot weather is killing more than half a million people a year “That’s approximately one heat-related death every minute throughout the year,” says a heat and health expert.

BYD, the top-selling car brand in Singapore, widens lead over Toyota While BYD’s sales in its Chinese home market have hit speed bumps recently, it will end 2025 with a record high in Singapore.

SGAG parent company Hepmil sold to French Publicis Groupe for undisclosed fee Founded by junior college friends Karl Mak and Adrian Ang, the company currently employs more than 300 people.

No tariff talks at regional summit as PM Wong underscores Asean unity, deeper integration “We cannot afford to allow disputes to split Asean apart, and I think it’s good that there is a very strong sense of commitment to…

Ohmyhome co-founder Rhonda Wong resigns as CEO at Nasdaq-listed proptech The company said that Wong’s resignation was not due to disagreements over operations or company policies.

Start your day with BT ☕️: Stocks to watch: Mapletree Logistics Trust, Keppel Reit, Clas, ESR-Reit, Wee Hur, First Reit, LHN Top Stories: 1. Companies: LHN’s co-living unit Coliwoo to offer 80.3 million shares at S$0.60…

STI at 10,000 by 2040: Which companies will do the heavy lifting? Pretty much the same 10 companies are doing it now. The question is if they can continue to do well and create enough value over the next 15 years to get…

Shophouse sales rebound in Q3 as investor interest returns with lower financing costs Family offices, high-net-worth individuals and institutional investors continue to make up the key buyer pool for shophouses, PropNex…

PM Wong calls for deeper Asean-China collaboration to strengthen trust, regional stability He noted that the Asean-China relationship is among the bloc’s most substantive, with next year marking 35 years of dialogue rela…

Marina Bay Sands fined S$315,000 for 2023 data breach About 665,000 MBS patrons had their personal data illegally accessed and exfiltrated by one or more unknown threat actors in October 2023.

SGX ETF market hits record S$16.3 billion AUM in Q3 on strong gold, Reit demand It records net inflows of S$736 million in the quarter, bringing the total to S$1.4 billion in the year to date.

Indonesia’s Chandra Asri in talks with lenders to fund US$1 billion deal to buy Singapore’s Esso stations Chandra Asri has signed a sale and purchase agreement to acquire the fuel stations through a special purpose vehic…

The bulls, laggards and the IPO leaders: Asean’s markets in four charts In terms of returns, Vietnam and Singapore are leading the pack so far in 2025.

Skipping a generation: Lessons from the late Nippon Paint tycoon’s inheritance play The unusual move left 6 out of 8 grandchildren with shares worth over S$10 billion dollars.

Singapore court orders Ron Sim’s LAC to return GNC stores, pay US$18.9 million in franchise dispute The court finds that LAC had wrongfully terminated its agreement after ‘secretly’ preparing to rebrand all of the US hea…

Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts: sources The figure represents a small percentage of Amazon’s 1.55 million total employees, but nearly 10% of its roughly 350,000 corporate employees.

Singapore’s GIC seeks to sell US$1 billion of stakes in PE funds The divestment by GIC may include as many as than 30 funds from global private equity managers, including Blackstone and Apollo Global Management.

Start your day with BT ☕️: Stocks to watch: Cordlife, Seatrium, First Reit, CICT, KIT, Keppel Pacific Oak US Reit Top Stories: 1. Property: Shophouse sales rebound in Q3 as investor interest returns with lower financing…

East Asia Summit must move beyond ‘talk shop’ to deliver real outcomes: PM Wong The world is undergoing profound changes and trust deficits are widening, he says.

Is the Trump-Xi meeting in South Korea headed for a K-drama moment? No happy ending guaranteed.

Garena could fire Sea towards US$1t market cap dream, but Shopee growth plans weigh on near-term sentiment Developments at gaming arm Garena and digital financial services arm Monee could lift Sea to a good third-quarter…

Trump came, danced and left, leaving Asean (and Anwar) to carry on Asean must keep its focus as it weathers a choppy year of tariff turmoil, political tension within several member states, escalating costs and slowing tr…

#BTOpinion: Despite 14% subsidy clawback, a S$788,000 Berlayar BTO flat is a solid buy The desirable estate will be a good ‘forever home’, and also has potential to generate robust capital gains and rental income, says B…

STI 10,000 is not an unachievable goal The STI would have to rise by about 5.6% a year from its Friday (Oct 24) close of 4,422.21 in order to reach the 10,000 level by 2040, says BT's Ben Paul.

Dasmond Koh’s NoonTalk Media defends strategy amid going concern warning NoonTalk expects its projects, such as The Golden Singa Awards – an annual international Chinese-language film awards show – to “ensure a steady ca…

A gold crash everyone saw coming lures bargain hunters worldwide From Singapore to the US, dealers say they have seen a rush of interest from people looking to buy gold as prices dropped this week.

‘Asean will be finished’ if divided amid US-China rivalry, says PM Wong “The mutual suspicion and mistrust between the two powers is likely to continue, and they will continue to take steps to insulate themselves against…

Nuclear power: Singapore to partner two US institutes, releases background paper “Nuclear energy has the potential to be a safe, reliable, and cost-competitive option for Singapore,” said Minister-in-charge of Energy and…

Singapore to build 700MW data centre park on Jurong Island, pilot biomethane imports: Tan See Leng Some 20 hectares of land will be set aside for the low-carbon data centre park.