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The 2025 Graduate reality check It's a mixed bag for Singapore’s fresh grads, according to the latest graduate employment survey, released on Thursday (Mar 5). While the median salary is holding steady at S$4,500, the hu…

Oil spike drags Asian currencies lower, with Fed path and Middle East trajectory key risks ahead The Singapore dollar has fallen 1.1% against the greenback in the last five days, weakening alongside other major currencie…

Start your day with BT ☕️: Stocks to watch: Hongkong Land, SIA Engineering, CapitaLand Ascott Trust, CSE Global Top stories: 1. Companies: ‘Really different’: SGX RegCo’s Tan Boon Gin looks to exorcise S-chip ghosts 2. C…

Singapore Gulf Bank launched amid booming wealth flows from Asia – then came the Iran crisis The Singapore Gulf Bank (SGB) was set up in 2024 in Manama city by the Whampoa Group, a multi-family office group linked to OCB…

First home-grown gold ETF to list on SGX on Mar 26 This will be the first listing of a gold ETF on the local bourse in two decades.

Fewer fresh Singapore graduates in 2025 found full-time work, but pay held steady: Survey 74.4% of graduates secured full-time positions in 2025, down from 79.4% in 2024.

Hong Fok family scion Cheong Sim Lam buys retail property Holland Piazza for S$100 million The acquisition marks the first ownership change in over five decades for the freehold retail property.

A 900% fare hike shows Asian carriers Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific can weather Iran chaos A one-way economy ticket flying Singapore Airlines from Heathrow to Singapore on March 5 costs HK$66,767 (S$10,916) – a 900%…

Subsidy clawbacks could hit 20% for Singapore’s tallest public housing project at Pearl’s Hill: Analysts An industry watcher sees a subsidy clawback of 20% as “construction costs are likely to be much higher due to the n…

A shortage of used cooking oil threatens green aviation. Could these Singapore projects help? Limited supplies of used cooking oil and fraud risks are pushing Singapore players like Aster to find new ways of making susta…

🥟Old Chang Kee stores its curry puff recipe in a hidden vault to protect its signature taste That iconic curry sauce recipe is so prized, it’s kept under lock and key to stay ahead in Singapore’s ultra-competitive F&B s…

Morgan Stanley lays off 2,500 employees across divisions, source says Morgan Stanley reported a banner year in 2025, with annual revenue hitting a record.

ComfortDelGro to partially absorb higher fuel costs at its petrol pumps It will also deploy fuel subsidies to ease the financial pressure on its drivers in the wake of higher pump prices amid the Iran war.

Start your day with BT ☕️: Stocks to watch: Aims Apac Reit, Marco Polo Marine, Geo Energy Resources, Aspial Lifestyle Top stories: 1. Singapore: One Singapore bank launched in the Gulf amid booming wealth flows from Asia…

More than 800 Maybank Singapore junior staff to receive one-off payouts The payment includes S$1,250 for 200 unionised executives, along with additional quarter-month bonuses for more than 600 junior employees.

Boutique wellness player Trapeze Rec Club to close after five years; owner says ‘not sustainable’ to carry on The 8,000 sq ft club at Tanjong Pagar is owned by Grant Wee, the youngest child of UOB CEO Wee Ee Cheong.

Singapore to review COE categories for cars: Jeffrey Siow Siow noted that the price difference between Category A and Category B has been converging in recent times as car manufacturers have been adjusting specifications…

Beauty salon becomes first sub-tenant to sue Hao Mart over alleged breach of Taste Orchard sublease Beauty salon operator Belovie said it had spent approximately SS$445,607.70 in fitting out and preparing its salon at Ta…

Premiums for all COE categories rise; big cars lead with S$9,000 jump, beating mainstream cars Category B is up 8.6% at S$114,002.

How should Singapore decide which jobs are to be filled by foreign workers? Every job a good job? Amid efforts to broaden the range of good jobs, foreign worker flexibility tweaks suggest that certain roles may never be…

[JUST IN] HDB to roll out 60-storey BTO blocks in plan to ‘build more, faster, higher’ The government is scaling up its public housing building programme with plans to “build more and build faster” as well as much taller…

Middle East conflict likely to raise global energy and Singapore electricity prices: EMA Singapore relies on imported liquefied natural gas to generate 95% of its electricity – including supply from Qatar shipped through…

Former oil tycoon OK Lim granted jail term cut in US$111.7 million case appeal The High Court rejects OK Lim’s appeal against conviction, but allows his appeal against a 17.5 year sentence.

STI drops 2%, Asia-Pacific indexes slump as Iran worries continue to plague investors Local bank counters were a sea of red in the morning, with DBS falling 1.2% to S$54.95 and OCBC declining 1.2% to S$20.85. UOB was dow…

Mandating advance retrenchment notice may hasten layoffs, discourage negotiations: Tan See Leng “If we mandate advance notifications, this may inadvertently push companies to finalise retrenchments more quickly, discoura…

Start your day with BT ☕️: Stocks to watch: DFI Retail Group, GuocoLand, Wilmar, iFast, Q & M Dental Top stories: 1. Singapore: Assets seized in connection with Chen Zhi’s transnational scam syndicate total over S$500 mi…

Sea Q4 earnings up 72.9% at US$410.9 million; targets 25% GMV growth in Shopee The increase in net profit was driven by a strong performance by Sea’s e-commerce platform Shopee and its digital financial-services arm Mone…

S-E Asian businesses in the Gulf take safety measures as they hunker down for prolonged disruption “The emotional pressure on the team and their families is huge.” Alan Ng, founder and CEO of Singapore startup QuikBot Te…

Budget 2026: New CPF life-cycle investment scheme likely to appoint only two to three fund managers to keep fees low MOM said that simplicity and cost are two “very important parts” of the scheme, and that members should…