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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 [...]

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 [...]

CHINA TAISAN’s sales grew 51.0% year-on-year to Rmb 302.5 million
due to rising average selling prices and a higher sales volume.
Weighted average selling prices rose 6.6% year-on-year due to higher average pricing for both performance fabrics and fabric processing services.
Sales volume jumped 41.5%, driven mainly by the successful launches of new products in 2009.

The new products [...]

Genting S’pore Q1 loss widens; Sentosa EBITDA S$109 mln
Genting Singapore <GENS.SI>, which operates one of the city-state’s two mega casinos, reported its losses rose 12-fold in the three months to March, hurt by impairment losses on its UK casino operations.
Genting Singapore, a unit of Malaysia’s Genting Bhd <GENT.KL>, reported late on Thursday a net loss [...]

Remembering Dr. Goh Keng Swee
Singapore’s former Deputy Prime Minister and chief economic architect, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, has passed away after a long illness. He was 91.
Dr Goh is best remembered as one of the key architects behind Singapore’s  economic success. His daughter-in-law, Tan Siok Sun described the story of his life in the new book Goh Keng Swee: A Portrait. The biography features many of [...]

Sand exports to Singapore harm Cambodia: watchdog
Cambodia is engaged in destructive sand exports to fuel Singapore’s rapid expansion despite a supposed government ban on the practice, an environmental watchdog said Tuesday.
London-based Global Witness said Cambodia was making a “mockery of the government’s supposed May 2009 ban on sand-dredging”, risking devastation to its coasts, endangered species, [...]

Overseas S’poreans should look at home growth post—crisis & return
CHICAGO: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong hopes that Singaporeans based overseas will realise the country’s developments and economic growth particularly after the financial crisis and return home soon.
He was speaking to some 150 Singaporeans who are studying and working in Chicago. Mr Lee was wrapping up [...]

Singapore ups growth view but may stand pat on policy,singapore stock market news,singapore stock market ,singapore stockmarket news
Govt ups 2010 GDP growth forecast to 4.5-6.5 pct vs 3-5 pct
* Economy shrank annualised 2.8 pct q/q s/adj in Q4
* Economists expect c.bank to stand pat on policy in Apr
* Inflation outlook lowered slightly due to rebasing [...]

PM Lee identifies 3 areas of priority for govt
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Monday identified three areas of priority for the government: restructuring the economy, addressing the population shortfall and updating the political system.
In a wide—ranging speech to the annual Singapore Perspective Conference organised by the Institute of Policy Studies, Mr Lee [...]

SINGAPORE: Marina Bay Sands has begun training a few hundred dealer inspectors, cashiers and surveillance staff for the casino.
A spokesman for the integrated resort said this is part of an extensive training programme underway for all levels of staff.
Many dealers had been hired to work at the Integrated Resort from July last year.
However, construction woes [...]