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The M Hotel in Singapore’s business district once struggled to fill its rooms on weekends as visiting executives tended to leave by Friday. Now it enjoys 90 percent-plus occupancy even on Saturdays and Sundays.
A prime destination mainly for bankers and businessmen, Singapore also has started drawing tourists with a slew of new attractions, the most [...]

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So what are some of the changes? To summarise, the latest round of anti-speculation measures for private properties are as follows:
Increase the holding period for imposition of Seller’s Stamp Duty (SSD) from the current one year to three years.
Increase the minimum cash payment from 5 percent to 10 percent of [...]

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RPT-Singapore’s NOL places $1.2 bln ship orders from Daewoo

SINGAPORE, July 21 – Neptune Orient Lines <NEPS.SI>, the world’s fourth-largest container shipping firm, has placed an order with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering <042660.KS> for new container ships worth $1.2 billion.
It ordered 10 vessels of 8,400 twenty-foot equivalent unit capacity [...]

China, the worst-performing stock market
after Greece, looks like a buy by almost any measure, according to
top-ranked analysts of the Asian nation’s shares.
   The Shanghai Composite Index’s 26 percent plunge this year,
including yesterday’s 4.3 percent slump, sent its price-earnings ratio
to 18, the lowest level versus the MSCI Emerging Markets Index in a
decade. The largest owners of yuan-denominated [...]

Singapore’s factory output sees record rise in May
Singapore said Friday that manufacturing output surged a record 58.6 percent year on year in May as factories raced to meet robust foreign orders for electronics and pharmaceuticals.
Last month’s factory production, which eclipsed the previous record high of 49.7 percent posted in April, was almost double the 32.1 [...]

Wilmar International Limited (Wilmar) has make an offer to Benso Oil Palm
Plantation Ltd (BOPP) (listed in Ghana Stock Exchange) acquire at least
58.45% of the entire issued ordinary share capital. Unilever Ghana
Limited, which holds in aggregate 58.45% of the issued share capital of
BOPP, has provided the Company with a written irrevocable undertaking to
accept the Proposed Offer [...]

Well-established in SE Asian markets, a pioneer in 3-in-1 coffee. According to Euromonitor, instant coffee consumption is expected to experience a 2009-11 CAGR of 6.6 and 10.9% in Malaysia and Thailand respectively.
Super Group (Super) is one of the leading brands in the instant coffee-mix market and is in the position to benefit from this growing [...]

Singaporeans opt for pricey homes, says report

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Foreigners no longer accounted for most buyers who purchased homes at more than $5 million, according to a recent study conducted by Savills Research and Consultancy, revealing that Singaporeans are now buying up pricey homes.
The report showed a stunning turnaround in a trend which has [...]

Singapore ranks as world’s 17th most expensive location for retail rents
 
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Singapore has climbed up one spot in the latest survey conducted by CB Richard Ellis for the world’s most expensive retail locations.
CBRE’s Global MarketView report on the retail sector showed that prime retail rents in the country ranked [...]

Crude Oil: Crude oil declined, falling below $70 a barrel in New York, after the
seizure of a Spanish bank fueled concern the fallout from Europe’s debt
crisis isn’t over.
Crude oil dropped 37 cents, or 0.6 percent, to $69.84 a barrel, in
electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange at 8:44 a.m. Sydney
time. Yesterday, the contract rose [...]