Singapore Morning News For May 2
Singapore’s GDP to grow 2.2% this year: UN agency The Republic’s growth outlook is expected to pick up to 2.2 per cent this year and 2.5 per cent in 2018, mainly conditional on a revival […]
Singapore’s GDP to grow 2.2% this year: UN agency The Republic’s growth outlook is expected to pick up to 2.2 per cent this year and 2.5 per cent in 2018, mainly conditional on a revival […]
Philippines’ Duterte says helpless against China Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday (Apr 27) there was no point protesting Chinese artificial island building in disputed areas of the South China Sea because it could […]
Meth’s new frontier: The Islamic marshlands of Bangladesh Annual seizures of meth in the country have gone up 80,000 percent — yes, eighty thousand percent — in nine years. — PRI Mizoram bans import of pigs and piglets from […]
Bangkok gets the traffic, Singapore gets the bucks Bangkok may be the most visited destination in Asia-Pacific among foreign visitors, but it is Singapore where they spend the most. — Bangkok Post 33% of the […]
Agriculture ministry to create 80,000 hectares of new rice fields The Agriculture Ministry has expressed its optimism that it is able to create some 80,000 hectares of new rice fields this year as targeted by […]
When it comes to television versus the internet the latter wins hands-down with Asia-Pacific youth, with Thai youth the most internet ‘addicted’ of all. In fact, so internet tuned-in are Thai youth between the ages […]
New S$1 billion innovation fund to drive enterprise growth The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (Ipos) and home-based private equity firm Makara Capital launched a S$1 billion fund on Wednesday (April 26), with aims to […]
Exclusive: Industry builder REAPRA targets to invest $46m in SE Asia this year Active business builder REAPRA Pte Ltd targets to invest up to $46.6 million (S$65 million) more in Southeast Asia this year and […]
Indosat Eyes Rp 3t From Bond Sale in May to Repay Debt, Expand Network Indosat, Indonesia’s second-largest telecommunications operator, plans to raise Rp 3 trillion ($226 million) from a bond sale next month to repay […]
Telecom operator Ooredoo prepares to launch mobile money services in Myanmar Ooredoo, one of the three telecom providers in Myanmar, is gearing up to launch mobile money services in the country. — Deal Street Asia […]
NUS embarks on programme to promote fintech and blockchain training in Singapore The National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Computing and the IBM Center for Blockchain Innovation (ICBI), a part of IBM Research, are […]
Duterte’s China honeymoon comes to a close Ten months into Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte’s tenure, his strategic honeymoon with China has devolved into rocky relations. — Asia Times Death penalty bill already ‘dead’ in Senate […]