THE recent cooling measures have “indeed weakened market sentiments and demand” by raising the barriers for entry for “all categories of buyers”, said Real Estate Developers’ Association of Singapore (Redas) president Augustine Tan at the group’s annual mid-autumn festival lunch on Wednesday. Nearly 46,000 private residential units could be available for sale between 2019 and 2020, which would take around […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE is the second-best city for technology companies looking to establish or expand operations in Asia, according to a report published on Wednesday by real estate services and investment management company Colliers International. In the report, titled “Top Locations in Asia – Technology Sector”, Colliers ranked 16 large Asian cities on socio-economic, property and human factors […]
Read MoreA LONG-AWAITED piece is finally in place that will get Singapore’s electronic payments transformation going. Singapore on Monday launched a single, standardised QR or Quick Response code for e-payments in what could be a global model for other jurisdictions. Just as significant, the government also announced it will open the interbank payment gates to fintech […]
Read MoreSingapore unveiled the first-of-its-kind unified payment QR code on Monday, in an announcement by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA). Known as the Singapore Quick Response Code (SGQR), it combines multiple payment QR codes into a single label and aims to make QR code-based mobile payments simpler for […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE: Singapore’s on-year non-oil domestic exports growth slowed sharply in August as sales of pharmaceuticals came off the sizzling pace of the month before, official data showed on Monday. Exports rose 5.0 percent in August year-on-year, data from the trade agency International Enterprise Singapore showed, slowing from the revised 11.0 percent rise the month before. […]
Read MoreMORE Singaporeans found jobs in the first half of this year than in the first six months of 2017, with local employment growth 1.5 times higher. However, the latest Manpower Ministry (MOM) statistics released on Thursday also showed that the long-term unemployment rate has continued to edge up. The MOM said in its latest report […]
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