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SINGAPORE – Financial resilience and know-how are vital, especially amid the kind of crisis the world is facing now, said Minister of State for Manpower Gan Siow Huang on Friday … Read More
SINGAPORE – The surprisingly significant impact of Covid-19 Delta variant on the global growth outlook has also started to check enthusiasm over the prospects of the trade-driven Singapore economy. The … Read More
SEOUL (REUTERS, BLOOMBERG) – South Korea raised interest rates for the first time in almost three years on Thursday (Aug 26), becoming the first major Asian economy to start exiting record-low borrowing … Read More
SEOUL (BLOOMBERG) – A new elite of uber-rich entrepreneurs is shooting up the wealth rankings in South Korea, overtaking the families behind the country’s decades-old sprawling conglomerates known as chaebol. … Read More
STOCKHOLM (REUTERS) – As Klarna’s billionaire founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski prepares to stage one of the biggest-ever European fintech company listings, a feast of capitalism, he credits an unlikely backer for … Read More
SINGAPORE – Retail sales in Singapore rose 25.8 per cent last month on an annual basis, aided by a low base in the same month last year when stricter curbs … Read More
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – US companies added far fewer jobs than expected in July, indicating persistent hiring obstacles despite broader improvement in the economy. Businesses’ payrolls increased by 330,000 last month, … Read More
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US factory activity slowed sharply in July amid ongoing supply shortages and bottlenecks, according to an industry survey released on Monday (Aug 2). While manufacturing continues to … Read More
SINGAPORE – The Singapore dollar has bounced back to the level it held about two weeks ago after recovering from a slew of negative factors that emerged in the past … Read More
BENGALURU (REUTERS) – Global economic growth prospects are holding strong for this year and next, despite a significant majority of economists in Reuters polls warning new variants of the coronavirus … Read More
Matt Kelley lives in Denver and works for Major League Baseball, but he’s like people traveling to the Mile High City for the All-Star Game: He needs a car. He … Read More
SINGAPORE – This year’s SkillsFuture Forum, which kicks off SkillsFuture Month, will focus on best practices for business transformation and employee training. At the forum on Thursday (July 8), Minister … Read More
