Singapore Informer

PropertyGuru.com.sg By Romesh Navaratnarajah: The drop in private home sales in Q1 2013 was a result of the tough property cooling measures introduced in January, according to Jones Lang LaSalle. Resale transactions of condominiums in prime districts 9, 10 and 11 declined 61 percent to 144 units during the period. Notably, foreign buyers registered the [...]

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May 11, 2013 12:51 AM MASSEUSE Siti Satuyah heard a loud crash on Thursday evening from inside the spa where she worked, and spun around to see a woman rolling off the back of a BMW parked at the spa’s doorstep and onto the road, her face bloodied.      Full News here – RSS Print [...]

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May 10, 2013 10:18 PM Two mainboard-listed service providers for the marine industry, Chuan Hup Holdings and Swissco Holdings, posted a decline in their quarterly revenue.      Full News here – RSS Breaking News – Singapore

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Yahoo! News Singapore, 4 May 2013 In this year’s Freedom of The Press report published Wednesday by Freedom House, Singapore’s press was rated “Not Free” and was ranked 153rd in the world, tied with Afghanistan, Iraq and Qatar. Norway and Sweden tied for tops, while North Korea and Turkmenistan tied for the bottom two. Both [...]

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OCBC Bank has booked a 16 per cent on-year decline in its first-quarter net profit to S$ 696 million. Full News here – Channel NewsAsia Singapore Business News

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April 26, 2013 6:56 PM Tianjin Zhong Xin Pharmaceutical Group on Friday said its net profit for the fiscal first quarter ended March 31, 2013 fell 20 per cent year on year to 118.47 million yuan (S$ 23.57 million), despite a 17 per cent increase in turnover to 1.45 billion yuan.      Full News here [...]

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April 23, 2013 8:22 PM Hong Leong Finance’s first quarter net profit fell 8.9 per cent to $ 15.3 million, from $ 16.7 million a year ago.      Full News here – RSS Breaking News – Singapore

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Deepavali will fall on 2 November instead of 3 November, as advised by The Hindu Advisory Board. Full News here – Singapore Local News – inSing.com

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March 18, 2013 10:28 AM SINGAPORE – The Singapore dollar fell against the greenback on Monday as worse-than-expected February exports data reinforced worries about a slowdown in the city-state’s economy. Full News here – RSS Breaking News – Singapore

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March 11, 2013 8:03 PM WBL Corporation Limited saw its net profit for the fiscal first quarter ended Dec 31, 2012 plunge 74.3 per cent year on year to S$ 6.08 million from S$ 23.68 million. Full News here – RSS Breaking News – Singapore

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Bloomberg, 26 Feb 2013 Singapore’s industrial production unexpectedly declined in January as demand for electronics and pharmaceuticals faltered. Manufacturing fell 0.4 percent from a year earlier after a revised 1.3 percent gain in December, the Economic Development Board said in a report today. The median of 16 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News was for a [...]

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SINGAPORE: Singapore Telecom (SingTel) said Thursday its third quarter net profit fell 8.3 per cent from the previous year as it invested more to improve growth and incurred one-off restructuring expenses. Full News here – Channel NewsAsia Singapore Business News

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February 01, 2013 6:37 PM Chuan Hup Holdings said on Friday that its second-quarter net profit fell 21.2 per cent to US$ 5.28 million (S$ 6.5 million) from US$ 6.7 million a year ago. Full News here – RSS Breaking News – Singapore

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January 25, 2013 6:03 PM Singapore Post recorded a 5.1 per cent year-on-year decline in its third-quarter net profit to S$ 39.45 million. Full News here – RSS Breaking News – Singapore

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January 14, 2013 6:44 PM LIAN Beng Group on Monday said its fiscal half year net profit fell 36.2 per cent year on year to S$ 19.21 million from S$ 30.13 million. Full News here – RSS Breaking News – Singapore

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