A suspected terror leader has fled from a detention center in Singapore after asking to use the toilet, Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng has admitted.
It was a hot, sticky day in Jakarta, especially for visiting officials of Singapore's state-owned Temasek Holdings. They sweated for nearly four hours on Nov. 19, as Indonesia's competition commission completed its six-month probe into the country's mobile-phone sector, where Singapore companies own major stakes in two operators that between them control 85 percent of a $6 billion market.
Applicants to the Mile-High Club, whose members claim amorous encounters at altitude, could be forgiven for having their excitement aroused by the prospect of a ride on the first A380 superjumbo passenger jet.
The government of Singapore is currently endorsing a campaign to boost its recycling levels to 60 percent by 2012 (up from its 2005 levels of 49 percent). Their final target however is an ambitious "zero landfill" status, which they hope to achieve by ultimately recycling all the waste produced in the city-state.
You can't go far wrong in a truck equipped with an Astrata box. The device, half the size of a cigarette pack, can be wired into anything that moves - truck, car, shipping container - to head off nearly every conceivable type of disaster.
For most of the morning the other day, they locked down one of the two massive runways at busy Changi International Airport here. This was unusual.
For the second year in a row, Singapore was ranked the world's easiest place to do business, followed by New Zealand and the United States, the World Bank's annual "Doing Business" report said Wednesday.
An earthquake struck Wednesday off the western Indonesian coast, killing at least nine people, said a spokesman for the country's Social Affairs Department. I-Reporters sent in their stories, photos and video.
SINGAPORE AIRLINES' A380 AUCTION
SINGAPORE AIRLINES' A380 AUCTION
A suspected terror leader has fled from a detention center in Singapore after asking to use the toilet, Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng has admitted.
It was a hot, sticky day in Jakarta, especially for visiting officials of Singapore's state-owned Temasek Holdings. They sweated for nearly four hours on Nov. 19, as Indonesia's competition commission completed its six-month probe into the country's mobile-phone sector, where Singapore companies own major stakes in two operators that between them control 85 percent of a $6 billion market.
Applicants to the Mile-High Club, whose members claim amorous encounters at altitude, could be forgiven for having their excitement aroused by the prospect of a ride on the first A380 superjumbo passenger jet.
The government of Singapore is currently endorsing a campaign to boost its recycling levels to 60 percent by 2012 (up from its 2005 levels of 49 percent). Their final target however is an ambitious "zero landfill" status, which they hope to achieve by ultimately recycling all the waste produced in the city-state.
You can't go far wrong in a truck equipped with an Astrata box. The device, half the size of a cigarette pack, can be wired into anything that moves - truck, car, shipping container - to head off nearly every conceivable type of disaster.
For most of the morning the other day, they locked down one of the two massive runways at busy Changi International Airport here. This was unusual.
For the second year in a row, Singapore was ranked the world's easiest place to do business, followed by New Zealand and the United States, the World Bank's annual "Doing Business" report said Wednesday.
An earthquake struck Wednesday off the western Indonesian coast, killing at least nine people, said a spokesman for the country's Social Affairs Department. I-Reporters sent in their stories, photos and video.
SINGAPORE AIRLINES' A380 AUCTION
SINGAPORE AIRLINES' A380 AUCTION
Garbage dumps are generally not associated with thriving coral reefs, vast mangrove plantations and rare bird species.
Pedestrians all over the world are moving faster than a decade ago, according to scientists who have conducted a study into the pace at which people walk.
SINGAPORE (AP) -- Lam Chih Bing was among five golfers to qualify for the British Open, becoming only the second golfer from Singapore to qualify for the only major outside of the United States.
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Posted: October 20, 2006
Is Ho Ching losing her touch? That's what some are asking about Temasek Holdings' formidable chief executive after a string of embarrassing setbacks.
Singapore's government hanged an Australian man for drug trafficking early Friday, hours after making an exception to prison policy by letting the condemned man's mother hold her son's hand one last time.
At dawn on Friday, a hangman at Changi Prison in Singapore placed a hood over the head of drug trafficker Van Nguyen, put a noose around his neck and opened a trap door in a "long-drop" procedure that killed the Australian citizen.
From monitoring its hazardous waste to keeping track of all computer activity, Singapore is one of the most security-conscious places in the world.
To Californian resident Eva Dang, Dr. William's Chong central clinic looks like any other office near her home.
Look to countries that have private accounts, and the risks appear as real as the promise. High fees overwhelm excellent returns in Chile.
A group of leading U.S. and European telecom providers are joining together to lobby Asian governments to open their markets to outsiders, according to a published report.
Lee Hsien Loong towers over most of his countrymen. But his height advantage isn't much help this morning in June at Singapore's new sports academy. The 6-foot Lee repeatedly tries to toss a ball t...
Singapore has sworn in the son of founding father and architect Lee Kuan Yew as the state's new prime minister in a colorful ceremony.
It's quietly called the nanny state, among other things, by Singapore's disenchanted.
In a final speech to the nation, Singapore's outgoing Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong declared his "chapter closed."
Singapore Airlines has completed the world's longest commercial passenger flight, touching down in Newark, New Jersey after a flight of more than 18.5 hours from Singapore.
While U.S. authorities and EU airlines test security schemes that allow frequent flyers to escape airport delays, the Asia Pacific region is already ahead of the game.
It was born out of a simple premise. Our companies are expecting us to travel further, do more when we get there, and do it all as cheaply as possible.
January 24, 2004
One of the last remaining refuges from the onslaught of electronic mail is about to disappear. Beginning in late November, Singapore Airlines will test a new system to allow business- and first-cla...
There is tremendous change but also tremendous inertia." The words of a Western business consultant in Bangkok pretty much sum up the state of Asian business as the third anniversary of Asia's cras...
As far as the citizens of Hong Kong were concerned, Wednesday, Oct. 23, couldn't have been a more inauspicious day. In the city's financial center, a plumbing fault suddenly drained an ornamental p...
Lee Kuan Yew is not one to shy away from controversy, whether by expounding on the superiority of Asian values or hounding his critics in court. But lately Singapore's senior minister and the succe...
In the middle of Asia's boom, with $700 million of assets in hand, resides John Koeneman, Singapore citizen and founder of Koeneman Capital Management. After two decades of analyzing stocks in the ...
DROP BY DROP, the Vietnamese bureaucracy was bleeding Daimler-Benz of small change--and most important, thwarting a high-priority project. The German automaker had been trying for a year to get per...
YOU COULD SPEND a lot of time looking up in Hong Kong. This island city is spectacularly vertical, and still sending up shoots like so much concrete bamboo. But don't pause too long to contemplate ...
THE SYMBOLISM in the drawing at left is traditional: The dragons are contending for a pearl, an Oriental emblem of great riches. What's modern is the identity of the players. In the struggle to cre...
CITI's a curious breed of cosmopolitan. You can count on Citicorp for periodic faux pas at home, yet it seems in its element in the booming economies of Asia. Its consumer business transfers market...
As befits a man born in Holland, the first foreign stock Maurits E. Edersheim bought when he was a young investor on Wall Street was Royal Dutch/Shell. That was in the late 1940s, when only the int...
AN EXTRAORDINARY arena of growth in a listless global economy. A battleground for the competition between the U.S. and Japan. This is booming, ambitious East Asia. America and Japan have slowed dow...
A FUNDAMENTAL shift is under way in how and where the world's work gets done -- with potentially ominous consequences for wealthy, industrialized nations. The key to this change: the emergence of a...
I TELL American friends to stop worrying about layoffs at home and come to this region,'' says Laksamana Sukardi, 37, managing director of the Lippo Group, a financial services company in Indonesia...
IN A QUIET SHOWROOM in a fashionable part of Seoul sit two lonely Honda Accords. How can that be? After all, South Korea bars all Japanese car imports in order to keep its $5.9 billion trade defici...
One after another, foreign economies are slowing down. But not Singapore's. This tiny country, only one-fifth the size of Rhode Island, is in full swing. Bolstered by a solid middle class, low infl...
Singapore has surfaced as the Kuwait of Southeast Asia: a small country (pop. 2.7 million) with billions of dollars of hard cash for investment overseas. Conservative estimates place the republic's...
WHEN THEY COME to compete against you, the Asians sometimes seem ten feet tall. They appear to have everything: brains, drive, determination, and capital. But, increasingly, they lack one crucial e...
After the fall of the Berlin Wall last year, world stock markets surged powerfully on hopes of peace and a global economic boom. But since Iraq's conquest of Kuwait, sky-high oil prices and fears o...
FROM THE burgeoning Asian economies outside Japan -- from South Korea and Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, and beyond -- a new breed of corporate giant is rising to challenge top businesses in both t...
ASIA'S GROWING power is the corporate challenge of the 1990s. If as manager or tourist you have always found the region intriguing, the stories on the following pages will inform as well as delight...
YOU'RE THE TOP, you're a lazy Sunday . . . you're a lunch on Monday, you're a blue-chip stock . . .'' Listen to the beguiling female voice croon a television commercial pitching Chivas Regal whisky...
The news reached Hong Kong on a muggy July morning, as shock waves from the Tiananmen Square massacre were still reverberating: Singapore was relaxing its immigration rules. Almost immediately anxi...
6 EDITOR'S DESK
NOTHING proclaims the success of a bustling economy better than a thriving stock market, and these days the Pacific Rim has more than its share. Powered by a cascade of cash from surging trade surp...
IN A FLASH, it seems, they have gone from scruffy, dependent countries to well-off producers of shoes, clothes, and transistor radios to wealthy powerhouses that appear to turn out the best of ever...
Still picking arguments with people who insist that deep down inside everybody is the same as everybody else, we come now to the slightly touchy subject of brainy Asian-Americans. Oddly enough, the...
TRADING on the global stock bazaar, where orders chase the sun from Tokyo to London to New York -- with stop-offs on the Continent and in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Sydney -- does not seem so chic a...
Stand back, the old line goes, and gain perspective. So to gain global perspective -- the prime requisite for a global investor -- one must, of course, stand way back, indeed back far enough to see...
ASIA'S FASTEST-GROWING economies, the so-called little dragons of South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong, prospered for years with a simple formula: pump out cheap exports to the U.S. and Eu...
LIKE ANY GOOD FATHER, the government of Singapore knows when it's time to back off and let the children run the business -- to struggle, stumble, and with luck succeed. And like any good father, th...
If he weren't the boss's son, Lee Hsien Loong probably wouldn't be a minister of Singapore at the age of 33. But he almost certainly could have made it into the cabinet eventually. The son of Prime...
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