BUSINESS confidence among Singapore companies remained downbeat for the second quarter of 2019, and waned for the third consecutive quarter, according to the latest quarterly Singapore Commercial Credit Bureau’s (SCCB) Business Optimism Index released on Tuesday. The overall index eased from +7.19 percentage points in Q1 2019, to +5.08 percentage points in Q2 2019. On a year-on-year […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE: Singapore will allocate a further S$300mil (US$222mil) to spur research in digital innovation as the government transforms the economy through technology. The amount, almost double the current budget, is part of the next phase of the National Research Foundation’s five-year plan ending 2020, Minister for Communications and Information S. Iswaran said during a parliamentary […]
Read MoreSingapore has been ranked 13th out of 126 countries in the 2019 Rule of Law Index released on Thursday (Feb 28), and first in the area of order and security. Compiled by the World Justice Project (WJP), a US-based independent advocacy group, the index measures how the rule of law is “experienced and perceived in practical, everyday situations by the […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE – The Republic continues to rank world No. 1 in the area of order and security, according to the 2019 Rule of Law Index compiled by the World Justice Project (WJP), an independent advocacy group based in the United States. Order and security is measured by how well a society ensures the security of […]
Read MoreAlthough Singapore remains the undisputed business hub of Asean a recently released international trade connectivity survey also found rapid improvements in other Asean member states. Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam (along with Mozambique) were highlighted in notes accompanying the latest DHL Global Connectedness Index (GCI 2019) as the five countries globally where international flows were […]
Read MoreSingapore’s gender wage gap widened in 2018, as the median wage for women working full-time fell to 87.5 per cent of the median wage for men – its lowest in the past decade, a report by ValueChampion published on Thursday (Feb 28) has found. In 2017, the median wage for women working full-time was 90.8 per cent of the median wage […]
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