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  • Fortis buys 23.9% in Singapore firm

    Delhi-based Fortis Healthcare today said that it is acquiring 23.9 per cent stake in Parkway Holdings, one of the Asia's largest healthcare service providers, from TPG Capital in an off-market deal.
    2010-03-11 04:38:24
  • China need to boost consumption: IMF officer

    The Chinese consumer has been held back for too long, and now must be put front and center in China's growth model, vsaid Anoop Singh, director of the International Monetary Fund's Asia and Pacific Department. According to an article by Singh published on Thursday's Straits Times, Singapore's leading English newspaper, he said that China has weathered the economic crisis well and the world waits to see if last year's domestic demand growth can be sustained. Singh said that one key idea to ...
    0000-03-00 00:00:00
  • Bedlam over CBI probe

    Ranchi, March 10: The Assembly was on the boil today with the Opposition creating a ruckus over the government's refusal to seek a CBI probe into various corruption cases that have brought disrepute to Jharkhand, including the Rs 2000 crore Madhu Koda money laundering case and another one involving a Singapore firm in 2005 when deputy chief minister Raghubar Das was urban development minister in the NDA government of Arjun Munda.
    2010-03-11 03:06:15
  • FormFactor opens Singapore plant

    Seeking to cut costs amid losses, FormFactor Inc. has announced the official opening of its new wafer probe card manufacturing facility and global business center in Singapore.
    2010-03-10 16:25:39
  • Economists forecast robust 9.5% first-quarter growth

    SINGAPORE The economy is expected to register robust growth this quarter - 9.5 per cent, according to economists' forecasts - though it'll be more of a technical rebound than anything else.
    2010-03-10 15:42:14
  • Clarification

    IN 'How SMEs can get that bank loan' BT, March 10, we reported Singapore Manufacturers' Federation president Renny Yeo as saying SMEs contribute a third of the economy's total value-add. The federation has clarified that SMEs contribute half of the economy's total value-add.
    2010-03-10 15:45:14
  • Lippo: No change in strategy for OUE

    SINGAPORE It will be business as usual for Overseas Union Enterprise OUE, even as Indonesia's Lippo Group takes sole control of the property firm.
    2010-03-10 15:37:14
  • Rising power prices may raise a sweat

    SINGAPORE Hot weather, increased economic activity, and hiccups in Indonesian gas supplies. A triple whammy that have led to one thing: climbing electricity prices that could impact businesses, according to sources.
    2010-03-10 15:36:14
  • Oil price seen hitting US$100 by 2011

    SINGAPORE Crude oil may hit US$100 per barrel by 2011, as demand outstrips supply on tight capacity from the producers, according to a UK-based commodities fund manager.
    2010-03-10 15:44:14
  • Yuan may not follow China trade bounce

    SINGAPORE China's better than expected trade results, released yesterday, prompted speculation that a revaluation of the currency may come soon but analysts have warned that this may not be the case.
    2010-03-10 15:40:14
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