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Singapore: 31-Year-Old Man Jailed for Filming Obscene Videos of Girlfriend, Colleague After Blindfolding Them
A 31-year-old man was sentenced to eight months and 12 weeks' jail on Wednesday, February 26, for blindfolding women and secretly recording them having sex with him. He pleaded...
Billionaires should do more to list their businesses on SGX.
LAST week, there was a raft of measures unveiled to spur equities market development here.A S$5 billion equity market development programme is being launched, under which the Monetary Authority...
OCBC conservative on FY2025 targets amid trade tensions, uncertainties
This is despite bank’s net profit for FY2024 being up 8% at record S$7.6 billionOCBC rode on the strength of macroeconomic tailwinds to register healthy growth for the full...
Indonesia reaches pact with Apple, signalling end for iPhone ban
APPLE has signed an agreement with Indonesia to invest in the country, paving the way for sales of the iPhone 16 to resume in South-east Asia’s largest nation.
The agreement...
Thai central bank cuts key policy rate amid slow growth, trade policy risks
THAILAND’S central bank cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point on Wednesday (Feb 26), a move it said was a response to a weaker growth outlook...
CDL CEO Sherman Kwek disappointed by father’s ‘extreme actions’ against him after suits filed
CITY Developments Ltd (CDL) group chief executive officer Sherman Kwek said recent changes to the board have “never been about ousting our esteemed chairman”, responding to moves by his...
The knights and pawns in CDL joust
This is not the first time a tussle has torn a rift in the company’s management
Great Eastern privatisation is ‘natural progression’ in bank’s strategy: OCBC CEO Helen Wong
THE full integration of Great Eastern into OCBC will help the lender realise more synergistic value, by providing more opportunities for the bank to work closer with the insurer,...
