THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) said on Friday (Jan 28) that its private home price index rose 5 per cent quarter on quarter in Q4 2021, and climbed 10.6 per cent for the whole of last year. These are unchanged from the flash estimates put out on Jan 3. Analysts had said then that the Q4 […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) – Industrial developments continued to see delays in the fourth quarter of last year, with available stock rising by 11,000 sq m, a sharp drop from the 228,000 sq m in the previous three months. It is also a mere 1.5 per cent of the 736,000 sq m rise in total […]
Read More[SINGAPORE] The number of reported job scams during the Covid-19 pandemic has skyrocketed, warned the police, as more people are lured by the convenience of easy jobs promising high commissions. The revelation comes even as people are still reeling from the shock of at least S$8.5 million that nearly 470 OCBC Bank customers lost last […]
Read MoreSingapore will be investing $9.2 billion to support green investment and build a logistics port hub in Indonesia, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said on January 25. The money, he said, will fund renewable energy projects in Batam, Riau Islands province, and in Sumba island and West Manggarai in East Nusa Tenggara province, as well as […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE’S manufacturing sector grew by 13.2 per cent year on year in 2021, jumping from the 7.5 per cent expansion in 2020, according to fresh figures on Wednesday (Jan 26). Full-year growth was driven by electronics and its adjacent precision engineering cluster, and supported by both the volatile pharmaceuticals cluster and a recovery in transport […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE – Singapore’s central bank tightened its monetary policy in a surprise off-cycle move on Tuesday (Jan 25), to help strengthen the Singapore dollar and combat inflation running at its fastest pace in nearly eight years. In its second tightening move in three months, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) raised slightly the “slope” or rate of appreciation of its Singapore dollar […]
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