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— Lee Kuan Yew
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KT&G refuses ginseng unit spin-off, aims to double sales by 2027
KT&G, South Korea's dominant tobacco and ginseng company, rolled out an aggressive mid-term business plan Friday to bolster its investment and sales in an apparent move to fend off a campaign launched by a Singapore-based activist fund. Unde
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Portugal available to support Timor-Leste’s accession to ASEAN
“We are available for this, to work with Singapore, and with Timor-Leste because of the importance we attach to participation in ASEAN”, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal, João Gomes Cravinho, said today in Singapore, indicating that this was one of the issues discussed during the meeting he held ...
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SMEs share transformation stories
Fifty-five percent of small and medium enterprises in Southeast Asia are optimistic about their business recovery after the pandemic, but they realise they need to make changes to stay competitive, the UOB Asean SME Transformation Study 2022 has found.
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Koersmanipulator achter Singaporese crash van centjesaandelen krijgt 36 jaar cel
17:03 De Maleisische zakenman John Soh en zijn partner hebben woensdag in Singapore lange gevangenisstraffen gekregen voor grootschalige koersmanipulatie met valse beleggingsrekeningen. 5,8 miljard dollar b...
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Ratch Group completes $605m Nexif acquisition
SET-listed Ratch Group, Thailand's largest private power producer by capacity, has completed a US$605 million deal to acquire Singapore-based Nexif Energy Joint Venture, part of a move to grow its energy and battery businesses.
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Local banks eager to step up regional expansion
Local banks have continued to gear up for regional business expansion, aiming to create higher income from the growth potential of the Asean economy in the post-pandemic period.
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Hong Kong and Singapore compete for green finance supremacy
The race to attract all that fresh money and trading business in Asia will take years to play out, but so far Singapore has an ...
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SK Telecom, Singapore's Singtel join hands for metaverse push
South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom said Tuesday it forged a partnership with Singapore’s largest mobile carrier Singtel to expand its metaverse service into the Asia-Pacific region. Singtel operates in 21 countries to provide mobile communic
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Thai Mice sector forecast to generate $12bn by 2027
Thailand has the potential to become the Asean hub of Mice (meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions), with the country's industry forecast to reach US$12 billion by 2027, buoyed by world-class venues and its multicultural nature, according to global event organiser RX.
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FTX case has raised 'serious allegations', says Singapore minister
SINGAPORE: The collapse of crypto exchange FTX has raised "very serious allegations that amount to potential fraud", Singapore's finance minister and deputy prime minister said on Thursday.
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Analysis: Southeast Asia between the sword of China and the wall of the United States
By Nicolás Promanzio This Sunday ended the 40th and 41st summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), held for 4 days in Cambodia. ASEAN is an intergovernmental organization that is on course to become the fourth largest economy in the world in the coming years and already has more ...
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Asean moves into the spotlight
In a global economy facing a protracted period of weak growth and high inflation, Southeast Asia offers a rare speck of optimism, with strong fundamentals, accelerating growth and a bright future.
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China seeks upgrade of massive trade zone with Asean amid US hostility
China is expected to start talks with Southeast Asian nations about an upgrade to their giant free-trade zone in a potential boost to the stability of Beijing's manufacturing supply chains amid mounting rivalry with the United States.
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KBank keen to build sustainable finance
Kasikornbank (KBank) has set a goal to expand the extension of sustainable financial facilities to 25 billion baht this year, doubling to 50 billion next year, aiming to become an Asean leader in the field of environment, social and governance (ESG) finance by 2030.
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Ant digital bank expands in Singapore with small business loans
Ant Group Co’s Singapore digital wholesale bank will start offering loans to small and medium-sized businesses, as the Chinese fintech giant extends its reach in the city-state.
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Hong Kong set for Asean cooperation and entry into RCEP
Hong Kong is set to gain early admission into the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), city leader John Lee Ka-chiu has said as he expressed confidence the city would bring "enormous value" to the free-trade grouping and revealed that member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) supported ...
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Deal values on the rise as private funding surges
Thailand saw private funding of US$300 million in the first half of 2022, a jump from $200 million in the same period a year earlier, according to an Asean internet economy report by Google, Temasek and Bain & Company.
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Kirin to export premium Fuji whisky to Singapore amid weaker yen
Singapore was chosen as the fifth country for the brand to enter, counting on a large population of well-to-do customers eager to snap up high-end ...
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Singapore seeks to boost regional electricity imports by 2035
SINGAPORE: Singapore will import more electricity from the region and is on track to reach its import targets of up to 4 gigawatts (GW) of electricity by 2035, a minister said on Wednesday.
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US Treasury's Adeyemo heads to Apec meeting with focus on trade, 'resilience'
WASHINGTON: United States Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo will travel to Asia this week for a two-day meeting with finance ministers from the Asia-Pacific region and bilateral meetings in Thailand and Singapore, the US Treasury Department said on Tuesday.
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Cargill Meats to expand Thai chicken production
Cargill Meats (Thailand), the subsidiary of the US agricultural and food ingredient producer Cargill Group, is ramping up its ready-to-cook products and using Thailand as a production hub to export to the Asean market.