Skip to content

washington news

Only the latest news

Category: news

Condo and HDB rents, volumes up in February: SRX

11.03.2020 admin news Leave a comment

SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) – Rents and volumes of non-landed private homes and Housing Board flats rose in the month

Continue reading

Singapore economy to shrink 0.8% in Q1 on coronavirus hit: MAS poll of private analysts

11.03.2020 admin news Leave a comment

SINGAPORE – Private-sector economists see the Singapore economy contracting by 0.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2020 from

Continue reading

Pakatan Harapan rallies support with roadshows

07.03.2020 admin news Leave a comment

It has been only two weeks since the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition lost its majority in Malaysia’s Parliament, but it

Continue reading

Muhyiddin could reach out across parties for Cabinet line-up

07.03.2020 admin news Leave a comment

Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin may be reaching out across political parties as he attempts to assemble his new Cabinet,

Continue reading

New Malaysian PM Muhyiddin seen as a man of few words but with a steely will

07.03.2020 admin news Leave a comment

Handing out boxes of pizza to journalists camped outside his house in Kuala Lumpur’s leafy Damansara Heights suburb last Sunday,

Continue reading

KMT appoints new chairman after crushing election defeat

07.03.2020 admin news Leave a comment

Kuomintang (KMT) legislator Chiang Chi-chen won the party’s chairman election in a landslide victory yesterday, nearly two months after former

Continue reading

New Thai party to replace dissolved Future Forward

07.03.2020 admin news Leave a comment

A new party will be launched by the remaining Members of Parliament in Future Forward, Thailand’s second-biggest political party popular

Continue reading

World Briefs: Trump appoints new chief of staff

07.03.2020 admin news Leave a comment

Trump appoints new chief of staff WASHINGTON • US President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he had chosen staunch

Continue reading

Myanmar army smashes three drug labs

07.03.2020 admin news Leave a comment

KAWNGHKA • Sacks of heroin and methamphetamine are laid out in endless rows in a remote Myanmar border zone during

Continue reading

Sanders slams Biden’s record, but says rival could beat Trump

07.03.2020 admin news Leave a comment

DETROIT • Calibrating his approach for a tough head-to-head primary match-up in a year when many Democratic voters want to

Continue reading

Lewinsky affair was a way to manage anxieties: Clinton

07.03.2020 admin news Leave a comment

NEW YORK • Former US president Bill Clinton said he had an affair with Ms Monica Lewinsky to help him

Continue reading

The failed escape

07.03.2020 admin news Leave a comment

LONDON • Three years ago, in secluded corners of a sprawling mall in Dubai, Sheikha Latifa, the daughter of the

Continue reading

China’s factory activity posts record contraction as coronavirus bites

28.02.2020 admin news Leave a comment

BEIJING (REUTERS) – Factory activity in China contracted at the fastest pace on record in February, highlighting the damage from

Continue reading

Dow slumps again to finish worst week since October 2008

28.02.2020 admin news Leave a comment

NEW YORK (AFP) – Wall Street stocks suffered another downbeat session on Friday (Feb 28) to conclude the worst week

Continue reading

STI dives 5.3% for week – worst since Aug 2011

28.02.2020 admin news Leave a comment

Local shares faced heavy selling yesterday and clocked up their worst weekly performance since August 2011 as the virus outbreak

Continue reading

GIC chief risk officer Chia Tai Tee to retire

28.02.2020 admin news Leave a comment

GIC yesterday announced the retirement of Dr Chia Tai Tee as chief risk officer (CRO), and said his deputy Jin

Continue reading

Singapore market plunges amid global bloodshed on virus fears

28.02.2020 admin news Leave a comment

Fears that the coronavirus outbreak could turn into a worldwide pandemic sparked panicked selling across the region yesterday. The local

Continue reading

Wing Tai, Millennium Hotels and Resorts axe staff

28.02.2020 admin news Leave a comment

Wing Tai Retail – the local firm that manages retail brands such as Dorothy Perkins and Uniqlo – is axing

Continue reading

Development charge cuts could help developers

28.02.2020 admin news Leave a comment

Development charge (DC) rates for non-landed residential use have been cut again amid a weaker economic outlook and muted Government

Continue reading

Rental rebates for retail tenants at Wisma Atria, Ngee Ann City

28.02.2020 admin news Leave a comment

Starhill Global Real Estate Investment Trust (SGReit) is rolling out rental rebates and marketing assistance for tenants at its two

Continue reading

Traders expect Fed to cut rates to buffer US economy

28.02.2020 admin news Leave a comment

SAN FRANCISCO • The United States Federal Reserve may need to move aggressively to cut borrowing costs to cushion the

Continue reading

Singapore bank lending down 0.2% in January

28.02.2020 admin news Leave a comment

Bank lending dipped by 0.2 per cent last month compared with the month before on a drop in loans to

Continue reading

Met police chief: facial recognition technology critics are ill-informed

27.02.2020 admin news Leave a comment

The Metropolitan police commissioner, Cressida Dick, has attacked critics of facial recognition technology for using arguments she has claimed are

Continue reading

Money FM 89.3 Podcast: Heng Chee How’s response to Budget 2020 manpower initiatives

27.02.2020 admin news Leave a comment

Prime Time: Heng Chee How’s response to Budget 2020 manpower initiatives 12.53 mins Synopsis: In Career 360, Bernard Lim speaks to

Continue reading

Porcelain Hotel in Chinatown for sale with $115m guide price

27.02.2020 admin news Leave a comment

SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) – The Porcelain Hotel, a 138-key boutique hotel in Chinatown, is up for sale via expression

Continue reading

Posts navigation

«Previous Posts 1 2 3 4 5 … 55 Next Posts»

Share with your friends


Categories

  • news
WordPress Theme: Tortuga by ThemeZee.