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Despite the upward revision, we continue to expect this decline in construction activity to extend until 2020, with real growth for Singapore's construction sector forecast to average 3.7% per annum between 2014 and 2020.

DBS Wins Approval For Smaller Stake Than It Had Sought For Danamon Singapore's largest bank, DBS Group , has met with a mixed bag of success pertaining the year long effort in view of its takeover bid of Indonesia's PT Bank Danamon .

The economic boom in Asia over the past two decades has inspired people to take risks, develop new businesses and tread on unbeaten paths.

The mixed media work Electricity by Singapore artist collective Phunk and Indonesian artist Arahmaiani's Crossing Point at the Welcome To The Jungle exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art.

SINGAPORE will play host to several of the world's prominent finance and economics experts as they come together to form Asia's largest economics research organisation here, aimed at giving an intellectual boost to the local financial industry.

AN EMPLOYEE of Standard Chartered Bank will be charged in court today for criminal breach of trust involving $500,000, BT understands AN EMPLOYEE of Standard Chartered Bank will be charged in court today for criminal breach of trust involving $500,000, BT understands.

Earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters often showcase the worst in human suffering - especially when those disasters strike populations who live in rapidly growing communities in the developing world with poorly enforced or non-existent building codes.

By AzerNews The state oil fund SOFAZ -- an entity that accumulates and manages Azerbaijan's oil and gas revenues -- has announced that it is still interested in property acquisitions in prime business districts of major cities around the world.

With no respite expected for the tight labour market, some retail ers in Singapore are shutting their least profitable outlets, freezing expansion plans and even cutting opening hours.

More than 500 food outlets, including this Koufu foodcourt, will join efforts to encourage diners to return their trays.

To remind Singaporeans about the free Pap smear screenings this month, the Singapore Cancer Society came out with a "Lift your skirt.

Ms Grace Lam took a holiday to Australia with her husband Peter Yean and their daughter Naomi last October before she underwent surgery to reconstruct her breasts.

CRAVING. It can be difficult to address sometimes. Luckily, almost anything is available in the city today.

Back in 1996 Singaporean gallerist Jasdeep Sandhu was an aspiring art dealer on the hunt for something new.

It is in providing engineering services to the upstream oil and gas industry. Technics services include designing and developing of process modules and equipment that are used for the production and storage of offshore and onshore oil and gas exploration and production activities.

Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at the 9th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration on Saturday, May 18th from 11a.m. to 6 p.m. in San Francisco's Civic Center.

Coordinating chairman of the PAP town councils, Dr Teo Ho Pin, has responded to the latest statement from the Workers' Party on town council management.

The vaccine based on Cytos' Virus-Like Particle technology may open the door to accelerated production of influenza vaccines in Singapore The vaccine based on Cytos' Virus-Like Particle technology may open the door to accelerated production of influenza vaccines in Singapore Cytos Biotechnology AG today announced that the first healthy volunteer ... (more)

Identifying natural hazards is only a part of what the field should do, analysis suggests, and effective disaster risk reduction strategies integrate many different experts on community level Earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters often showcase the worst in human suffering - especially when those disasters strike populations who live ... (more)

EXCLUSIVE: More records breaking for Summer 2013 as may continues to sizzle at the global box office.