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Singapore

Type: Country

Name: Singapore

population: 3,547,809

First Reported 17 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 4 Documents

Trafigura AG

Trafigura to move trading headquarters to Singapore

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Trafigura, the world’s third largest commodities trading company, announced it will be moving its legal headquarters from Geneva to Singapore, lured by lower taxes and proximity to China.Trafigura Pte, a Singaporean incorporated ... [ Published 1 hour ago by GenevaLunch ]

Entities: Trafigura AG, Singapore, Geneva

First Reported May 22 2012 - Updated 4 hours ago - 5 Documents

Why are maids falling to deaths?

Singapore (CNN) -- It's an annual tragedy in Singapore: domestic maids falling to their deaths from high rise apartments, often while carrying out duties such as cleaning outside windows.This year's grim tally swiftly ticked up to nine, when an Indonesian ... [ Published 4 hours ago by CNN ]

Entities: Singapore, Workers, Malaise, Well-being

First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 7 Documents

U.S. Defense Secretary to Travel to Singapore, Vietnam, India

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta will leave next week for a week-long trip to Asia, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little announced May 22. Panetta will leave May 30 to participate in the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore and will then travel to ... [ Published 4 hours ago by Defpro ]

Entities: Vietnam, Singapore, United States, India

First Reported 12 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 4 Documents

Singapore April CPI rises 5.4% from last year

Singapores consumer price index rose 5.4% in April from a year earlier, the government said on Wednesday, accelerating from 5.2% in March. In a Reuters poll, 12 economists had forecast that the CPI would rise 5.3% in April. Inflation has been persistently ... [ Published 11 hours ago by The Edge Singapore ]

Entities: Singapore, Inflation, Workers

First Reported 12 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 8 Documents

Singapore's CPI inflation climbs to 5.4 pct in April

Singapore's consumer price index rose by 5.4 percent in April, accelerating from the inflation rate of 5.2 percent of the previous month, the Department of Statistics said on Wednesday. The higher increase was mainly attributable to higher accommodation ... [ Published 10 hours ago by Individual.com ]

Entities: Inflation, Monetary Authority of Singapore, Singapore Dollar

First Reported May 22 2012 - Updated 13 hours ago - 5 Documents

IATA

Singapore - Asia’s Top Convention City

Singapore has once again maintained its position as Asia’s Top Convention City for 10 years running, according to the latest Global Rankings by the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA).In addition, Singapore has retained its spot as ... [ Published 13 hours ago by Asia Travel Tips ]

Entities: Singapore, IATA, Tourism

First Reported May 22 2012 - Updated 13 hours ago - 4 Documents

Fitch Ratings

Fitch says Singapore banks resilient in stress test

Singapore, May 21st 2012 - Fitch Ratings says its stress test shows that Singapore banks are able to keep their risk profiles intact during economic troughs. In a new report, Fitch says Singapore banks can fully absorb asset-quality shocks through their ... [ Published 13 hours ago by Newswit.com ]

Entities: Stress Test, Singapore, Fitch Ratings

First Reported May 22 2012 - Updated 14 hours ago - 10 Documents

Singapore eyes Asia cruise market with new terminal

SINGAPORE, May 23 — A multi-million-dollar cruise terminal capable of accommodating the world’s largest luxury cruise liners will start operating this weekend, officials said yesterday. The opening of the Marina Bay Cruise Centre Singapore will allow ... [ Published 14 hours ago by The Malaysian Insider ]

Entities: Singapore, Luxury

First Reported May 22 2012 - Updated 15 hours ago - 7 Documents

Passenger traffic at Changi up 12.7% on-year in April

SINGAPORE: Singapore Changi Airport reported a 12.7 per cent on-year increase in passenger traffic to 4.21 million for April this year. In line with the growth in passenger traffic, aircraft landings and take-offs rose 8.8 per cent to 26,400 flights. ... [ Published May 22 2012 by Channel NewsAsia ]

Entities: Singapore, Japan, India

First Reported 21 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 9 Documents

Singapore’s low taxes lure Trafigura

Commodities trading house is to move legal headquarters from Geneva, in a boost for island state as it fends off competition from other financial centres ... [ Published 21 hours ago by FT.com - International economy ]

Entities: Trafigura AG, Singapore, Taxes

First Reported May 21 2012 - Updated May 22 2012 - 4 Documents

Singapore has lowest talent risk in Asia Pacific

SINGAPORE has the lowest talent risk in Asia Pacific, according to a global study by human resources business Aon Hewitt.This means organisations here face the least risk among 50 Asian cities with regards to talent recruitment, employment and restructuring. ... [ Published May 22 2012 by Asiaone ]

Entities: Aon Hewitt LLC, Singapore, Taipei, Demographics

First Reported May 21 2012 - Updated May 22 2012 - 6 Documents

NS a contentious point between foreign- and local-born citizens

SINGAPORE - National service (NS) is a key issue in which Singapore-born and foreign-born citizens have different views on, with the former placing a greater emphasis on it, a study has found.When it comes to what qualities immigrants should have to be ... [ Published May 22 2012 by Asiaone ]

Entities: Singapore, Immigration, Institute of Policy Studies

Quotes

"With over 180 experienced lawyers resident in New York, this office provides a full range of litigation and transactional advice to Fortune 500 companies, multinational corporations, emerging businesses, and individual business leaders. This is a genuinely career enhancing opportunity for the trainees that join us, not only giving them a unique insight into our legal work, but also an opportunity to network with colleagues helping them to build important business relationships for the future."

Hogan Lovells to Offer U.S. Secondment [Hogan Lovells - 1 hour ago]

...HPB's chief executive, Ang Hak Seng, said eating habits in babies play a huge part in creating a healthy lifestyle. He said: "When we introduce solid foods to the babies, at the workshop for the mothers, we are actually educating the mothers to prepare baby food without salt, sugar and oil. And by doing so, the baby will have less or no reliance on this for taste." - CNA/ms

Toolkit to help parents raise healthy children [Channel NewsAsia - 1 hour ago]

"At the team manager's meeting, we were surprised that the original referee did not turn up" said Sarawak coach Robert Alberts, who on Tuesday admitted that his charges were given a "lesson in football" by the LionsXII who "absolutely deserved...

LionsXII win over Sarawak under cloud [Today Online - 1 hour ago]

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Blogs

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The Midweek Download: May 23rd Edition–Kinect f... [ Published 5 hours ago by The Official Microsoft Blog – News and Perspect ... ] In this edition of The Midweek Download, we’ve got stories on the release of Kinect for Windows 1.5, Microsoft Research, some gorgeous ultra-thin laptops from HP and Lenovo and more. Kinect for Windows 1.5 released with face tracking SDK and more. ...
News That Matters [ Published 7 hours ago by Zero Hedge ] Thetrader.se George W. Bush is back. And he’s got a plan! Freedom overseas? Yes — it would be nice to be free of George W. Bush’s destructive and costly neocon agenda (and I know many people overseas agree) but sadly the current White House ...
Is Fleeing the Country a Smart Tax Strategy for... [ Published 8 hours ago by EquityJungle - v0.1 ] Filed under: Facebook, TaxesFacebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has received a lot of criticism for his decision to give up his U.S. citizenship and emigrate to Singapore immediately before Facebook's (FB) IPO. But it's not a bad business move.Under ...
Disgruntled Maid Puts Period Blood in Boss?s Co... [ Published 9 hours ago by Gawker ] A domestic worker in the western Singapore town of Choa Chu Kang pleaded guilty in court today to mixing her menstrual blood into a cup of coffee she had prepared for her employer.The incident reportedly occurred last year; no motive for the crime was ...
SceneStyle: Saturday in Singapore [ Published 14 hours ago by WSJ.com: Scene Asia ] Patrick Leclercq, advertising head strategist. Acne cardigan and pants, Prada shoes, Saturday T-shirt. ...

Audio/Video

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Investments In Diamonds A Good Way To Preserve ... [ Published 14 hours ago by CNBC.com - Asia-Pacific ]
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Formula One goes public in Singapore [ Published May 22 2012 by CNN.com - Video ]
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Press Releases

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