SOME regulatory reforms in Indonesia could support smaller banks and make it easier for foreign companies to do business, observers have suggested. Read more at The Business Times. ( read original story ...)
Indonesia’s Markets Rally on Move to Simplify Labor Regulations
Indonesia’s stocks and currency rallied after the nation passed a bill simplifying labor and investment rules, making it easier for companies to secure permits while exempting some dividend taxes. ( read original story ...)
Singapore Stock Market Has A Green Light For Tuesday’s Trade
The Singapore stock market has moved higher in two of three trading days since the end of the two-day slide in which it had fallen more than 15 points or 0.6 percent. The Straits Times Index now sits ... ( read original story ...)
Hit by commodity defaults, banks in Singapore team up for digital trade registry
Some of the world's biggest banks in commodity trade financing are creating a digital trade finance registry in Singapore to try and mitigate the risk of trade fraud and boost transparency after ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s Changi Airport, voted ‘world’s best,’ has dim outlook on future of travel industry
The Changi Airport Group (CAG) recently released a fiscal report covering April 2019 through March 2020, which showed shareholder profits were down 36% from the previous fiscal year despite total ... ( read original story ...)
Facebook to tap 1,200 rooftops to power Singapore data centre, operations
Social media platform inks deal with Sunseap Group to tap energy generated from solar panels placed atop 1,200 apartment blocks across Singapore, which is expected to churn 100MWp of capacity when ... ( read original story ...)
This is Singapore’s last traditional village
World This is Singapore's last traditional village. Posted . Hidden between the skyscrapers of Singapore's urban jungle sits Kampong Lorong Buangkok - the only surviving tradition ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Banks to Extend Debt Relief for Struggling Borrowers
Singapore banks will extend debt relief for individuals and small-to-midsized businesses beyond the end of the year to support borrowers hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. ( read original story ...)
Disgraced Nissan ex-CEO launches effort to help Lebanon rise from ashes
Nissan’s scandal-ridden former CEO Carlos Ghosn made a daring escape from Japan to his home country of Lebanon to escape prosecution. Lucky for him, Lebanon doesn’t have an extradition treaty with ... ( read original story ...)
Heart-wrenching Lebanon may yet have better days
Like most Middle East states, modern Lebanon was engineered by colonial powers after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire. Le Grand Liban was established by the French, amalgamating the autonomous Ottoman ... ( read original story ...)