- The Ministry Of Trade and Industry (Abbreviation: MTI; Malay: Kementerian Perdagangan dan Perusahaan; 贸工部; Tamil: வர்த்தக, தொழில் அமைச்சு) is a ministry of the Government of Singapore that directs the formulation of policies related to the development of trade and industry in Singapore.
- The Singapore Tourism Board (Abbreviation: STB; Malay: Lembaga Pelancongan Singapura; 新加坡旅游局; Tamil: சிங்கப்பூர் சுற்றுலா வாரியம்) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industryof Singapore, tasked to promote the country's tourism industry.The board was first established in 1964 and was called the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (Abbreviation: STPB; 新加坡旅游促进局).
- Mr S Iswaran, Minister for Communications and Information today announced the formation of the SG Digital Office (“SDO”) under the Infocomm Media Development Authority (“IMDA”). The Office will drive the Government’s concerted new push to accelerate digital adoption in our community, as Singapore embarks on a phased economic recovery post COVID-19. https://www.imda.gov.sg/news-and-events/Media-Room/Media-Releases/2020/New-SG-Digital-Office-Established-to-Drive-Digitalisation-Movement
- The National Library Board (Abbreviation: NLB; 国家图书馆管理局;Malay: Lembaga Perpustakaan Negara; Tamil: தேசிய நூலக வாரியம்) is a statutory board of the Ministry of Communications and Information, Singapore. Although the NLB was formed on 1 September 1995 only, its history began way back in the 1820s when Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of modern Singapore, first proposed the idea of establishing a public library in the thriving colony. This library was to evolve into the National Library of Singapore in 1960, before expanding into the suburbs with the setting up of branch libraries in the various new towns.
- Ministry of Manpower http://www.mom.gov.sg/Pages/default.aspx
- The Government Technology Agency (Abbreviation: GovTech) is a statutory board of the Singapore government, under the Prime Minister's Office (Singapore)(PMO). It was restructured from the former entity Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) in 2016, and officially legislated in Parliament on 18 August 2016. The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) was formed in 1999 when the government merged the National Computer Board (NCB) and Telecommunication Authority of Singapore (TAS), as a result of a growing convergence of information technology and telephony.GovTech is responsible for the delivery of the Singapore government's digital services to the public. It is the agency that provides the infrastructure to support the implementation of the country's Smart Nation initiative to harness infocomm technologies, networks and big data to create tech-enabled solutions. The Government Chief Information Office (GCIO) is under GovTech.
- The Committee on the Future Economy (CFE) is a 30-member committee comprising members from different industries that operate in both global and domestic markets, as well as enterprises both large and small. It is co-chaired by Minister for Finance Mr Heng Swee Keat and Minister for Trade and Industry Mr S Iswaran. Minister in the Prime Minister's Office Mr Chan Chun Sing serves as Deputy Chairman. https://www.gov.sg/microsites/future-economy/about-us/about-the-committee-on-the-future-economy
- monetary authority of singapore
- Project Ubin is a collaborative project with the industry to explore the use of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) for clearing and settlement of payments and securities. DLT has shown potential in making financial transactions and processes more transparent, resilient and at lower cost. The project aims to help MAS and the industry better understand the technology and the potential benefits it may bring through practical experimentation. This is with the eventual goal of developing simpler to use and more efficient alternatives to today’s systems based on digital central bank issued tokens.http://www.mas.gov.sg/Singapore-Financial-Centre/Smart-Financial-Centre/Project-Ubin.aspx
- Media Development Authority www.mda.gov.sg
- Screen Singapore www.screensingapore.com.sg
- Spring Singapore http://www.spring.gov.sg/Pages/homepage.aspx
- infocomm development authority http://www.ida.gov.sg/
- Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore http://www.ava.gov.sg/- national environment agency http://www.nea.gov.sg/
- Singapore Workforce Development Agency http://www.wda.gov.sg/
- ministry of community development
- The Social Development Network (SDN), formerly known as "Social Development Unit" (SDU), is a governmental body under the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports ofSingapore (now the Ministry of Social and Family Development), which works closely with the community and commercial sectors to foster opportunities for singles to interact in social settings in Singapore. Besides coordinating and facilitating dating activities offered by the private sector, it also serves to educate the public on singlehood issues. Other responsibilities of the SDN include providing the necessary infrastructure and support for the dating industry, as well as to ensure the professionalism of dating agencies through anaccreditation council that was formed in 2007. SDN’s role in the industry has not always been that of facilitating and accrediting. When it was first established in 1984 as SDU, it functioned on its own, organising activities for its members without the help of commercial agencies. It was only in 2006 that the then SDU decided on a major change in approach: it let the private sector be the main provider of matchmaking and dating services, focusing instead on accrediting and funding private dating agencies and projects. This was done in the hopes of creating a more vibrant dating scene and of allowing singles to have more options to interact with others of different educational levels.
- Singapore Stock Exchange
- set up hk office hkej 4jul14 a8
- https://www.ft.com/content/ceae0fe6-2bfa-11e7-bc4b-5528796fe35c SGX, the Singapore Exchange, is looking to further boost its Chinese derivatives business by offering to collaborate with a planned new local futures venture backed by the founders of one of China’s largest hedge funds. Loh Boon Chye, the bourse’s chief executive, told the Financial Times he was willing to open its clearing infrastructure to the challenger, called Apex, so it could conduct futures trading in the city state. Apex is a new Singapore derivatives exchange focused on commodities. It is backed by Eugene Zhu, former head of Dalian Commodity Exchange, and Ge Weidong, a renowned trader who is head of Chinese hedge fund Shanghai Chaos, a mainland-based investor with an outsized impact on markets.
- 新加坡藝人馮偉衷上周六在新西蘭進行軍訓期間受重傷，延至周三不治。新加坡軍方公開初步調查結果，顯示馮維修炮車，在炮槍往後延伸時被困車後，走避不及被輾壓至重傷。陸軍周四決定即日起暫停所有高風險訓練，武裝部隊也將全面降低軍訓密度，審視軍人安全，為該國首次。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190126/00180_022.html
Geylang (芽笼, Tamil: கேலாங்) is a planning area and township located on the eastern fringe of the Central Region of Singapore, bordering Hougang and Toa Payoh in the north, Marine Parade in the south, Bedok in the east, and Kallang in the west. Geylang is known perhaps most infamously as a red-light district, particularly the areas along Geylang Road. Geylang is also where one of Singapore's oldest Malay settlements, Geylang Serai, is.The word Geylang is found early in Singapore's history and also in early topographical maps showing marsh and coconut plantations beside and adjacent to the mouth of the Kallang River, home to the Orang Laut (sea gypsies). One possible etymological link in the stock vocabulary of the Malay is geylanggan meaning to "twist" or "crush" a reference to the process of extracting the coconut meat and milk used by the locals to thicken curries in Malay-Chinese (Peranakan) cuisine. The word Geylang may be derived from a corrupted spelling of the Malay word gelang which is a type of edible creeper (Portulaca oleracea). This is a more plausible explanation for the name because Malays typically name places based on the abundance of certain plant species (e.g. Melaka after the tree species of the same name) or geological formations (e.g. Bukit Gombak based on the comb-like hill summit).
- One of the distinctive hallmarks of Geylang architecture is the preservation of its shophouses used by the clan (kinship) associations, set up as a (first) point of contact for newcomers in the migrant wave between 1840 and 1940 for the purpose of integrating the newcomers into the ways and customs of locals. At present the Geylang neighbourhood accurately reflects demographic changes in Singapore (2011) where out of every four Singaporeans, one is a foreigner (Goh, Mar 2011 paper on PRC Immigrants', Social Work Dept, National University of Singapore). As a strategic and military outpost for the British, the sea lanes off the Straits of Malacca were important to be kept free from pirates and open for shipping. As the British expanded in influence and power, so Singapore stood in the gap between East and West interests as a natural deep-harbour destination that played host to the French, Portuguese, Dutch and other European navies and their men. Other seaports in Asia, from Shanghai to Calcutta, also played a role in the traffic of women and girls for prostitution. James Francis Warren has studied the death (coroner's) reports in that colonial era that attest to the lives of the Cantonese, Hokkien, Teochew and Hakka and other dialect groups cast out of the Chinese mainland due to famine and abject poverty. His research tells the story of illiterate Chinese migrants working as coolies and rickshaw pullers and gives a description of what life might have been for the poorest of the poor living in Singapore under the British and immediately before the Japanese Occupation. In his 2008 edition of Pirates, Prostitutes & Pullers, the author traces the roots of prostitution in Singapore and gives an explanation of the eastward shift of Singapore's red-light district from Chinatown that was east of the Singapore river, toward the Hylam Street–Beach Road locality where many Chinese, Japanese and European girls were pimped, and finally across the Kallang river to its present location. Warren's research describes the ethno-social background of prostitutes: young men and women who came to Singapore a hundred years ago, having little or no education, who could not converse, read or write in English and resorted to any and all means to survive the ravages of war, hunger and privation back in the country of origin.
- 早於十九世紀初新加坡開埠初年，芽籠已出現於典籍內。1822年，當新加坡剛剛成為英國殖民地不久，殖民政府著手新加坡之地方規劃時，已提到「芽籠河」一詞。芽籠 (英文名稱 Geylang)得名有多種源說，其中一個說法是馬來文"Kilang"，意思是工廠，因當時該處有大量的椰林及檸檬草種植園，衍生出芽籠一帶眾多以椰子及檸檬草為原料的加工廠房為名。另一種源說是指「芽籠」其實是指新加坡的部落orang gallang。此部落是馬來半島沿海一帶orang laut部族的其中一支，以掠奪新加坡附近海域的船隻而著名。此外亦有一說指「芽籠」其實是福建話「雞籠」，因「雞籠」之福建話讀"kei-lang"，與『芽籠』的英文名稱"Geylang"讀音非常相似，是故有此推測。自英國殖民政府於開埠初年將馬來人及土著由新加坡河河口遷移到芽籠後，此區便成為新加坡馬來人的集中地。直到十九世紀後期芽籠亦漸漸成為馬來與阿拉伯富商的聚居地，當中包括Alsagoff、Alkaff、Aljunied家族。到二十世紀三十年代，芽籠出現了多個純馬來人的區域，例如Kampong Melayu（馬來村），及後演變成今天的芽籠士乃。近來於芽籠所發展的馬來村就是要將此區當年的面貌重新塑造出來，以迎合近年興起的文化旅遊。
- 早於十九世紀初新加坡開埠初年，芽籠已出現於典籍內。1822年，當新加坡剛剛成為英國殖民地不久，殖民政府著手新加坡之地方規劃時，已提到「芽籠河」一詞。芽籠 (英文名稱 Geylang)得名有多種源說，其中一個說法是馬來文"Kilang"，意思是工廠，因當時該處有大量的椰林及檸檬草種植園，衍生出芽籠一帶眾多以椰子及檸檬草為原料的加工廠房為名。另一種源說是指「芽籠」其實是指新加坡的部落orang gallang。此部落是馬來半島沿海一帶orang laut部族的其中一支，以掠奪新加坡附近海域的船隻而著名。此外亦有一說指「芽籠」其實是福建話「雞籠」，因「雞籠」之福建話讀"kei-lang"，與『芽籠』的英文名稱"Geylang"讀音非常相似，是故有此推測。自英國殖民政府於開埠初年將馬來人及土著由新加坡河河口遷移到芽籠後，此區便成為新加坡馬來人的集中地。直到十九世紀後期芽籠亦漸漸成為馬來與阿拉伯富商的聚居地，當中包括Alsagoff、Alkaff、Aljunied家族。到二十世紀三十年代，芽籠出現了多個純馬來人的區域，例如Kampong Melayu（馬來村），及後演變成今天的芽籠士乃。近來於芽籠所發展的馬來村就是要將此區當年的面貌重新塑造出來，以迎合近年興起的文化旅遊。
Kovan (Chinese: 高文; pinyin: Gāo Wén) is a neighbourhood located within the town of Hougang, in the North-East Region of Singapore. Kovan was traditionally an area associated with the Teochew community. A number of road names at Kovan commemorate the more prominent members of this community. Kovan's Teochew name is "La gou jio", which means six miles from the Fullerton Hotel. The neighbourhood today, largely consists of private housing properties, where a majority of the residents live in terrace homes, semi-detached and bungalows.Kovan is part of Aljunied GRC, and is located within the constituency's Paya Lebar division. Residents within the neighbourhood are represented by Chen Show Mao.
- Chen Show Mao (simplified Chinese: 陈硕茂; traditional Chinese: 陳碩茂; pinyin: Chén Shuò Mào; born 6 February 1961), JD, is a Taiwanese-born Singaporean politician and lawyer. He is a member of the opposition Workers' Party (WP), and has been a member of parliament (MP) for the Aljunied Group Representation Constituency (Aljunied GRC) since 7 May 2011. Chen was born in Taiwan and moved to Singapore at the age of 11. He studied at Nanyang Primary School, Catholic High School and Anglo-Chinese School.
Kusu Island is one of the Southern Islands in Singapore, located about 5.6 kilometres (3.5 miles) to the south of the main island of Singapore and below the Singapore Straits. "Kusu" means "Tortoise Island" or "Turtle Island" in Hokkien; the island is also known as Peak Island or Pulau Tembakul in Malay. The word kusu also means flatulence in Tamil, one of Singapore's official languages—however, this is in no way related to the name of the island, and is a misconception.龟屿本为珊瑚礁，最早的历史记载始于17史记。时任菲律宾总督的 Dom Jose de Silva 在1616年3月曾经到此一游，故将岛屿命名为“总督岛”(Governor's Island)，新加坡海峡称为“总督海峡”(Governor's Straits)。马来语则将岛屿称为"Pulau Tembakul"。1806年，英国东印度公司水文学家霍士堡将岛屿命名为“果阿岛”。新加坡在1819年开埠后，莱佛士爵士决定采用本岛作为船只驶入新加坡港的标志。龟屿原面积1.2公顷，1975年政府用填海方式将其增加至现在的8.5公顷。本岛曾是新加坡开埠初期，因病在棋樟山病死的移民的葬身之地。
- [aerial asia episode on singapore] mentioned that there is a taoist temple and three muslim mosques
Association
- The ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute (尤索夫伊萨东南亚研究院; pinyin: Yóusǔofū Yīsà Dōngnányà Yánjīuyuàn), an autonomous organization established by an Act of Parliament in 1968, was renamed ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute in August 2015 in honour of Singapore's first President.
- http://www.contactsingapore.sg/tc/professionals/work/career_development_and_networking/
- thinktank
- singapore institute of international affairs www.siia.online.org
- financial services consumer association singapore (fisca) http://c-onyx.com/12, wrote to SCMP on the issue of best interest of insurance policyholders
- Seafood industries association singapore www.seafoodsingapore.org
- Publishes members directory
- Europe
- Asia Europe Foundation http://www.asef.org/
- Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore http://www.seris.sg/
- Franchising and Licensing Singapore http://www.flasingapore.org/asso_about.php
- Media Publishers Association Singapore http://www.mpas.org.sg/
- Print and Media Association http://www.pmas.sg/pp.htm
- MICE
- asian federation of exhibition and convention associations http://www.afeca.net/afeca/
- singapore logistics association
- Founded on 1973 as Singapore Freight Forwarders Association Became Singapore Logistics Association in 1999 Incorporated The Logistics Academy Pte Ltd on 25 February 2010 https://www.unescap.org/sites/default/files/9_Singapore%20Logistics%20Association.pdf
- https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/logistics-association-rolls-out-3-year-plan-to-help-companies-go-10788224, https://www.straitstimes.com/business/economy/singapore-logistics-sector-launches-3-year-plan-to-speed-up-tech-adoption
- maritime
- http://www.asianshippers.org
- hobby
- kebun baru birdsinging club china daily 25jun19 annual birdsinging competition
- british club
- chinese
- present landlord is the Swiss Club. Fortunately our founders knew that the Swiss were anxious to develop the vast area of steep jungle on Bukit Tinggi ('High Hill' in Malay) that they had owned over many years.https://www.britishclub.org.sg/club-history
- The Straits Chinese British Association (SCBA) was formed on 17 August 1900 to advance the interests and welfare of the Straits-born Chinese community (also known as the Peranakans) in Singapore as well as to promote their allegiance to the British Crown.[1] Unlike the China-born Chinese who hailed mainly from the various southern provinces of China, the Straits Chinese were defined as those born or living in the Straits Settlements and whose loyalty was towards the British Crown.[2] One of the original objectives of the association was to promote among its members “an intelligent interest in the affairs of the British Empire, and to encourage and maintain their loyalty as subjects of the Queen”. The founding members of the SCBA were prominent Straits-born Chinese, some of whom were educated in Britain. These included influential personalities such as Seah Liang Seah, Lim Boon Keng, Song Ong Siang and Tan Jiak Kim, who was the first president of the association. The majority of the initial 800 members were drawn from the Chinese Philomathic Society of Singapore, which was established in 1896 to address political and social issues of concern to the Straits-born Chinese. To demonstrate its allegiance to the British, one of the first achievements of the SCBA was the formation of a Straits-Chinese company in the Singapore Volunteer Infantry in 1901 for the purpose of local defence.During World War I, SCBA leaders donated funds and even purchased warplanes to aid the British war effort.[6] In addition, they sat on school committees to improve English education in schools and donated money for the establishment of the King Edward VII Medical School in 1905. SCBA members were also active in social work. For instance, Lim Boon Keng launched a campaign against opium smoking in 1906. Shortly after the SCBA was established in Singapore, a branch was set up in Malacca in October 1900 followed by a Penang branch in 1920.[8] The SCBA changed its name to the Singapore Chinese Peranakan Association in 1964 and again in March 1966 when it was renamed The Peranakan Association.
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- directory
- Temasek
- people
- Temasek Holdings on Tuesday (Mar 19) announced a leadership succession at its wholly owned management and investment arm Temasek International. Mr Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara, 55, will succeed Mr Lee Theng Kiat as CEO of Temasek International from Apr 1. Mr Lee will take over from Ms Ho Ching as chairman of Temasek International on the same date. Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/temasek-international-dilhan-pillay-lee-theng-kiat-ho-ching-11358742
- temasek develops taste for china tech consumer companies http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2014-08/16/content_18355282.htm
- GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, has paid $1.7bn for a landmark office block in one of the most desirable locations of Tokyo http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/6ffc68d6-58c5-11e4-942f-00144feab7de
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20160831/PDF/b3_screen.pdf 新加坡主權財富基金， 新加坡政府投資公司（GIC Private Ltd） ，將收購越南市值最大銀行Vietcombank 的7.73%股權。目前越南是外國企業於亞 洲其中競爭激烈的市場之一，有關交易反 映越南對外資投資開放，該國目前尋求簡 化國營部門及推行自由化政策。
- http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tpg-property-sale-idUSKBN1320QY U.S. buyout fund TPG TPG.UL said on Monday it had signed a 2.4 billion euro agreement to sell its logistics property firm P3 Logistics Parks to Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC, in what it described as the largest European real estate deal this year.
- Keppel Corporation (also known as Keppel Corp) is a Singaporean conglomerateheadquartered in Keppel Bay Tower, HarbourFront. The company consists of several affiliated businesses that specialises in offshore & marine, property, infrastructure and asset management businesses. The company was founded in 1968 as Keppel Shipyard at the Keppel Harboursituated in Tanjong Pagar before moving its operations to Jurong, where the company focused on offshore and marine activities. Notable Keppel subsidiaries include Keppel Offshore & Marine (world's largest oil rig builder) and Keppel Land (world's 2nd most sustainable diversified real estate developer).The name of the company Keppel was derived from a British ship captain, Captain Henry Keppel, who discovered a natural, deepwater harbour (the Keppel Harbour) in Tanjong Pagar in 1848. The harbour was previously known as New Harbour until 1900 when the acting governor of Singapore, Sir Alexander Swettenham, renamed the harbour to Keppel Harbour in the honour of Captain Henry Keppel when he visited Singapore in 1900. In 1968, Temasek Holdings founded Keppel Shipyard when Keppel Harbour was taken over from the British Royal Navy after it withdrew from the island. In the 1970s and 1980s, Keppel Corporation focused on diversification within the company and regionalisation with the first overseas venture in 1975, Keppel Philippines Shipyard was set up in partnership with Filipino investors,with head offices in Cebu and Manila. In 1978, Keppel then ventured into the finance industry by providing financial services to marine contractors under Shin Loong Credit (renamed Shin Loong Finance) which propelled the growth and expansion of the financial services provided by Keppel. Keppel then ventured into the property market in 1983 after acquiring Straits Steamship Company, an established shipping company with substantial land holdings in Singapore. The Straits Steamship Company was then renamed to Straits Steamship Land (now known as Keppel Land) to focus on the property market. In 1990, with the acquisition of Asia Commercial Bank, Keppel Corporation established banking and financial services as a major pillar of growth for the company and in 1997 Keppel Bank acquired Tat Lee Bank, resulting in an enlarged bank called Keppel TatLee Bank to expand its services in the banking industry. In 1999, Keppel Shipyard (now known as Keppel Offshore & Marine group) moved its operations base from Keppel Harbour to Jurong to expand Keppel Corporation's offshore and marine operations in yards around Tuas, Gul and Benoi, which were close to one another and also to develop the land which Keppel Harbour was situated on into waterfront residential area.
- Oxley Holdings Limited, an investment holding company, engages in property investment and development activities in Singapore, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Cyprus, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Myanmar, Australia, Japan, and Vietnam. It operates through Property Development, Property Investment, and Hotel segments. The company’s property development portfolio includes residential, commercial, industrial, and hospitality projects. It also provides project management and consulting services. Oxley Holdings Limited was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in Singapore.https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=114977291
- https://frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanma-railways-selects-winner-for-25-billion-yangon-railway-station-project
- https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3051847/how-singapores-skyline-continues-be-reshaped-one-family
- Bank of Singapore (新加坡银行; pinyin: Xīnjiāpō yínháng) is a Singapore-based private banking arm of OCBC Bank. Formerly known as ING Asia Private Bank, it was acquired by OCBC in 2009 from ING Group for US$1.46 billion. As at 31 December 2016, Bank of Singapore's assets under management (AUM) was US$79 billion. Its core markets include Southeast Asia, Greater China and the Middle East, namely the Gulf Cooperation Countries. Bank of Singapore is rated Aa1 by Moody's.The bank was formed in 2010 by the acquisition of ING Asia Private Bank by OCBC in 2009, as a result of ING's restructuring plan, following a government bailout of ING Group in 2008,[3] due to the financial crisis in the late 2000s. Its current headquarters, the Bank of Singapore Centre at Market Street, was officially opened on June 2011. Since then, the bank has been strengthening its position in the Asia Pacific region.
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20170904/00202_021.html新加坡銀行行政總裁博林（Bahren Shaari）表示，未來業務會繼續放眼亞洲核心地區，透過擴張香港業務爭取內地的離岸資金，並透露今年香港區的客戶經理增加49%
- http://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-markets/uob-sets-up-joint-venture-with-chinese-fintech-firm United Overseas Bank (UOB) has tied up with an emerging Chinese fintech firm to tackle the region's underbanked market. UOB said yesterday that it has set up a joint venture called Avatec.ai (Avatec) with Beijing-based Pintec Technology Holdings.
- oh sian guan (one of the founding directors)
- great grandson kevin kwan (author of crazy rich asians); maternal grandfather paul hang founded the hinghwa methodist church; paternal grandfather arthur pc kwan was the first western trained ophtalmologist as well as being commissioner of st john ambulance brigade; paternal grandmother egan oh; great aunt margaret hu hk tatler sep2018
- singapore stock exchange
- http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/9d308844-7136-11e4-85d5-00144feabdc0.html Mr Böcker is working on an Asian link of his own: in September, he began talks with the Taiwan stock exchange about connecting their two markets. He says that, with both Singapore and Taiwan developing rapidly as offshore centres for the renminbi – China’s currency – a link with Taiwan opens up “greater China” opportunities for investors.
- http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/25/singapore-exchange-in-talks-to-buy-baltic-exchange.html
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20170729/00202_006.html新加坡交易所（新交所）亦作出反擊，表示會容許在「已發展市場」第一上市的雙重股權架構公司於新加坡第二上市。
- https://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-markets/sgx-tel-aviv-to-pursue-tech-healthcare-firms-for-dual-listings Singapore exchange (SGX) and the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) are teaming up to get technology and healthcare companies to list on both exchanges, the market operators announced on Monday (May 14). The two exchanges will "pro-actively engage" technology companies seeking to penetrate Asian markets to list on both exchanges, the two partners announced. This will include assisting companies during the pre-listing stage, facilitating the listing process, and providing issuers with post-listing support.
- smrt
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160717/00180_035.html 新加坡運輸部門上周五宣布，會斥資近十億新加坡元（約五十七億港元）收購「新加坡地鐵有限公司」（SMRT）的鐵路資產，協助該公司專注於列車營運。由SMRT營運的新加坡MRT地鐵近月事故不斷，致公眾怨聲載道。日前傳出，由中國製造的MRT列車，交付買方三年後重要結構組件及車身出現裂紋。
- Global Logistic Properties Limited (GLP) is a Singapore-based investment holding company, which is engaged in the provision of distribution facilities and services. The Company owns, manages and develops logistics facilities. The Company's segments include PRC, Japan, Brazil, US and Others.
- Chinese dealmaker Fang Fenglei won backing from Global Logistic Properties Ltd's chief executive officer as he pursues a takeover of the US$9 billion warehouse owner, said people with knowledge of the matter. His Beijing-based private equity firm, Hopu Investment Management, submitted an offer for the Singapore company together with Hillhouse Capital Management and GLP CEO Ming Mei, according to the people who requested anonymity because the information is private. http://www.redas.com/daily-news/2017/02/07/07022017/ , also scmp
- 由萬科企業(02202)牽頭的中資財團，斥資約159億新加坡元（約903億港元）提出私有化新加坡上市的亞洲最大倉儲物流營運商普洛斯，將成私募基金在亞洲最大宗併購個案。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20170715/00202_017.html
- Global Logistic Properties, the largest warehouse owner in Asia, has acquired European logistics business Gazeley in a $2.8bn deal. https://www.ft.com/content/76c38f9e-a6b7-11e7-ab55-27219df83c97
- GITI Tire Pte. Ltd., an investment holding company, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells tires primarily in the People’s Republic of China, the United States, Indonesia, and Europe. The company offers passenger car radial tires, truck and bus radial tires, bias tires, motorcycle radial tires, industrial tires, and others, as well as plastic products. It is also involved in the trading of tire products; investment and management of properties; design and production synthetic fabrics and steel cords; and provision of gardening and related services, and consultancy services. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Singapore. http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=22549099
- sembcorp
- A listed company whose core business includes marine infrastructure, engineering and IT
- operated VSIP industrial park in vietnam and promote via a fhki seminar on 15nov16, vsips in 中部廣義省and 義安省 (for labour intensive industries) enjoy more tax benefits AND TPP
- bukit sembawang https://www.bukitsembawang.sg From our humble beginnings as a leading rubber company in 1911, we have diversified into the development of landed property in the Fifties. In 1968, Bukit Sembawang was incorporated in Singapore as a public-listed company to focus on property development, investment and other property-related activities. For over half a century, we have been building some of Singapore’s most well-known residential developments including 2,500 homes in Seletar Hills, over 1,000 houses in Sembawang Hills and more than 500 in other locations.
- commodities- Noble Group, Asia's biggest commodity trader by sales
- infrastructure
- Yongnam http://www.yongnam.com.sg/, http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1627869/singapore-group-wins-us14b-contract-build-yangon-airport
- https://www.oxley.com.sg
- developments in cambodia as well (sales agent anb properties (hk))
- City Developments Limited (CDL) is a leading global real estate operating company with a network spanning 100 locations in 28 countries and regions. Listed on the Singapore Exchange, the Group is one of the largest companies by market capitalisation. Its income-stable and geographically-diverse portfolio comprises residences, offices, hotels, serviced apartments, integrated developments and shopping malls. https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=410611
- https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3003877/crazy-rich-asians-poor-mans-bali-rise-and-fall-and-rise-sentosa In Singapore’s exclusive Sentosa Cove residential enclave – touted as “the world’s most desired address” – the Cape Royale development stands out as one of the tallest buildings on the man-made island. The luxury condominium was one of the latest additions to the prestigious waterfront haven, boasting unparalleled views of the South China Sea. It even landed a cameo in last year’s Hollywood box-office hit . Beneath that shiny facade, though, there is another reality: not a single one of the 302 units at Cape Royale has been sold. Developer Ho Bee Land and its partner IOI Properties had decided to hold off launching the project a few years ago in view of weak market sentiment at the time, and rented out the flats instead. Even then, as of April 2018, only about 80 per cent of the units had been leased out.So frustrated was Singapore property tycoon Kwek Leng Beng that he recently put forward a new vision for Sentosa as a whole: to become the next Bali.
- kingsford development
- scmp 21apr19 article mentioned that company is hk linked
- energy
- equis
- U.S. fund Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) has agreed to buy Equis Energy, Asia’s largest independent renewable energy firm, for $3.7 billion with partners including sovereign fund China Investment Corp, underscoring growing global interest in renewables investment. Singapore-headquartered Equis is the largest renewable energy independent power producer in Asia‐Pacific, with over 180 assets comprising solar, wind and hydro generation spread across countries including Australia, Japan, India and the Philippines. Equis’ assets have installed capacity of more than 11 gigawatts. A big chunk of the assets are based in Japan. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-equis-m-a-globalinfra/u-s-fund-cic-snap-up-equis-energy-for-3-7-billion-in-bet-on-renewables-idUSKBN1CU053
- 1977年创立的优联能源集团union energy，42年来为顾客提供安全可靠的桶装煤气。该集团两年前进军电力零售市场，为家庭、工业和商业用户提供电力零售服务,
由潮商张建安、张学彬父子创办http://www.sohu.com/a/298160390_474772http://www.hsmrt.com/zhangxuebin/column/6006/
- 據新加坡《聯合早報》報道：新加坡裕廊西地區的一家液化石油煤氣廠21日發生火災，造成一死二傷，一名傷者已於22日出院，另一名傷者也情況穩定。中國駐新加坡大使館22日證實，傷亡人員均為中國籍員工。目前起火原因仍在調查中。這間工廠是優聯能源集團旗下的Summit Gas Systems液化石油煤氣工廠，位於裕廊西地區惹蘭布羅路43號。火災發生於21日下午約5點，現場冒出滾滾黑煙，並且頻頻傳出爆炸聲。一名43歲男子在事件中不幸身亡，另兩名29歲和45歲的男子受傷，不過在送院途中仍然清醒。三人均為工廠的中國籍員工。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20190624/PDF/a23_screen.pdf
- hin leong
- The troubles facing Singaporean oil trading firm Hin Leongdeepened as the city-state’s police have started investigating the company. The probe, which the Singapore Police Force confirmed by email, is the latest twist in the downfall of the company, which owes $3.85 billion to more than 20 banks and revealed in court filings that it hid about $800 million in losses. Hin Leong didn’t immediately respond to emails and a phone call seeking comment Tuesday morning in Singapore.The implosion of Hin Leong Trading (Pte) Ltd., one of the biggest and most secretive players in the world of physical oil trading, is among the most spectacular impacts wrought by this year’s collapse in oil prices, which squeezed the firm’s revenues and triggered banks to call in debts.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-21/singapore-police-open-investigation-into-oil-trader-hin-leong
- mice
- CrescentRating is the world’s leading authority on halal-friendly travel. The company’s vision is to lead, innovate and drive this segment through practical and deliverable solutions in what is regarded today as one of the fastest growing segments in the tourism sector. The company uses insight, industry intelligence. lifestyle, behaviour and research on the needs of the Muslim traveller to deliver authoritative guidance on all aspects of halal-friendly travel to organisations across the globe.https://www.crescentrating.com/about-us.html
- hotel
- gmh
- son of the group's head married suet yee
- The Ascott Limited is one of the leading international serviced residence owner-operators, with over 40,000 operating serviced residence units in key cities of the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East. The Ascott Limited is a subsidiary of CapitaLand, one of Asia's largest real estate companies. The Ascott was delisted from the Singapore Exchange in 2008 after a compulsory acquisition.From 1984 to 2000, merger and acquisition activities involving real estate and hospitality players in Singapore (Scotts Holdings, Pidemco Land, Somerset International, Liang Court Holdings, Stamford Group, DBS Land and Citadines an established hospitality brand in Europe) led to the establishment of The Ascott Limited. In 2006, the company established the world's first pan-Asian serviced residence real estate investment trust, the Ascott Residence Trust (Ascott REIT). In 2014, Ascott celebrated 30 years in the serviced residence business.
- Aman Resorts International is a luxury hotel group with 33 destinations in 21 countries. The word "aman" means "peace, security, safety, shelter, protection" in the Sanskrit, Hindi, Punjabi, Arabic, Ge'ez, Amharic, Urdu and Persian languages. Founded in 1988, Aman Resorts' first destination was the result of Adrian Zecha's desire to build a holiday home in Phuket.[2] His plans soon developed into an idea to build a small boutique resort with Anil Thadani and two other friends. They invested their own money in the venture as no banks would lend for the project due to the small number of planned rooms. By 1992, the group had expanded to include several resorts in Indonesia, a resort on Bora Bora and one in the Alpine village of Courchevel. Later, Clement Vaturi acquired a majority stake in the company,[3] thereby allowing the boutique hotels to be further conceptualized. In 1998, Vaturi's controlling interest was acquired by Los Angeles-based Colony Capital, a real estate investment fund.
- Singapore Airlines began with the incorporation of Malayan Airways Limited (MAL) on 1 May 1947, by the Ocean Steamship Company of Liverpool, the Straits Steamship Company of Singapore and Imperial Airways. The airline's first flight was a chartered flight from the British Straits Settlement of Singapore to Kuala Lumpur on 2 April 1947 using an Airspeed Consul twin-engined aircraft.[3] Regular weekly scheduled flights quickly followed from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang from 1 May 1947 with the same aircraft type.[4] The airline continued to expand during the rest of the 1940s and 1950s, as other British Commonwealth airlines (such as BOAC and Qantas Empire Airways) provided technical assistance, as well as assistance in joining IATA.[citation needed] By 1955, Malayan Airways' fleet had grown to include a large number of Douglas DC-3s, and went public in 1957. Other aircraft operated in the first two decades included the Douglas DC-4 Skymaster, the Vickers Viscount, the Lockheed 1049 Super Constellation, the Bristol Britannia, the de Havilland Comet 4 and the Fokker F27. When Malaya, Singapore, Sabah and Sarawak formed the Federation of Malaysia in 1963, the airline's name was changed, from "Malayan Airways" to "Malaysian Airways". MAL also took over Borneo Airways. In 1966, following Singapore's separation from the federation, the airline's name was changed again, to Malaysia-Singapore Airlines (MSA). MSA ceased operations in 1972, when Singapore wanted to develop its international routes but Malaysia wanted to develop its domestic routes before moving on to international routes, resulting in the formation of Singapore Airlines and Malaysian Airlines System.
- scmp 20jan19 article
- The Singapore Airlines includes many airline-related subsidiaries. SIA Engineering Company handles maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) business across nine countries, with a portfolio of 27 joint ventures, including with Boeing and Rolls-Royce. Singapore Airlines Cargo operates SIA's freighter fleet and manages the cargo-hold capacity in SIA's passenger aircraft.[5] It has two subsidiaries: SilkAir operates regional flights to secondary cities, while Scoot operates as a low-cost carrier.Singapore Airlines is majority-owned by the Singapore government investment and holding company Temasek Holdings, which holds 56% of voting stock. The Singapore government, which holds a golden share via the Ministry of Finance, has regularly stressed its non-involvement in the management of the company, a point emphasised by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew when he declared that the aviation hub status of Singapore Changi Airport will be defended, even at the cost of SIA.[9] However, he was personally involved in defusing tensions between the company and its pilots,[10] warned the airline to cut costs,[11] and made public his advice to the airline to divest from its subsidiary companies.
- Tiger Airways Singapore Pte Ltd, operating as Tigerair, was a budget airline headquartered in Singapore. It operated services to regional destinations in Southeast Asia, Bangladesh, China and India from its main base at Singapore Changi Airport. It was founded as an independent airline in 2003, and was listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange under the Tiger Airways Holdings name in 2010. In October 2014, parent company Tiger Airways Holdings became a subsidiary of the SIA Group, who took a 56% ownership stake. On 18 May 2016, Singapore Airlines established Budget Aviation Holdings, a holding company to own and manage its budget airlines Scoot and Tiger Airways following the delisting of Tiger Airways from the Singapore Stock Exchange.[2] Tigerair merged with Scoot on 25 July 2017, operating under the Scoot brand.
- Low-cost carrier Tigerair Taiwan (台灣虎航) yesterday denied that it had tried to cover up that two of its flight attendants had measles.http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2018/04/06/2003690770
- 新加坡航空公司旗下廉航酷航（Scoot）編號TR634的空中巴士A320客機，周四原定由新加坡飛往泰國哈艾，惟起飛後接獲炸彈威脅需緊急折返，在兩架新加坡F-15SG戰機護航下安全返回樟宜機場，機上一百七十三名乘客及六位機組人員全部安全。警方拘捕一名新加坡籍男乘客，正調查其犯案動機。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180406/00180_030.html
- aviation related
- Pteris, http://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/1794691/singapores-pteris-wins-contracts-cargo-handling-china
- maritime
- https://www.globalpsa.com/ 新加坡國際港務集團有限公司（PSA International Pte Ltd ）
- 新加坡太平船務「Pacific International Lines（PIL）」創始人張允中係世界上最年長嘅公司行政總裁（CEO）佢雖然已經將個位傳咗畀個仔張松聲，但呢位現年百歲嘅CEO接受外媒訪問時透露，自己仍然堅持每日去總公司返工，並巡視每個部門。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20181218/00202_026.html
- international maritime carriers (IMC) group www.imcgroup.info
- people
- Mr Frank wen-king Tsao started his career working in family-owned companies engaged in banking, transportation and international trade in Shanghai. He then ventured into shipping companies in Hong Kong, co-founding Great Southern Steamship Co. Ltd in 1949. In 1966, he established International Maritime Carriers (IMC) Ltd. in Hong Kong as a shipping company. It eventually grew into a substantial enterprise with ships transporting a wide range of commodities worldwide. Born in Shanghai in 1925, Mr Tsao is a graduate of Shanghai’s St. John’s University, He remains in close touch with his Chinese roots and is actively involved in developments in China. Mr Tsao donates to universities for the advancement of maritime education, training and research. He nurtures maritime talent through university scholarships in Dalian, Hong Kong, Qingdao, Shanghai and Zhoushan, and provides the financial resources for its academics and the maritime community. In 2006, the Dalian Provincial Government awarded him the title of “Honorary Citizen” in recognition of his support to its economy. Throughout his long and illustrious career, Mr Tsao has played a pivotal role in shaping the growth of the maritime industry and in promoting maritime education and research in Asia. In Malaysia, he partnered the Malaysian Government in 1968 to help establish her first national shipping line – the Malaysian International Shipping Corporation Bhd. In 1973, His Majesty, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (the Bahasa Malaysia term for “King”) of Malaysia conferred upon Mr Tsao the title of “Tan Sri” in recognition of his many contributions to the country, including the assistance he provided and his investment in Malaysia’s first shipyard, her first seamen’s training institute and the modernisation of her maritime legal framework. In 2005, Mr Tsao helped to establish the Centre for Maritime Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and sits on the Board of Directors as Chairman. In 2007, he played a key role in establishing the permanent secretariat of the Asian Shipowners Forum (ASF) in Singapore. He is also the first Asian recipient of the CMA Commodore Award from the Connecticut Maritime Association of the US in 2002.
- scmp 15aug19 shipping tycoon frank tsao dies at 94
- logistics
- Ych group china daily 22jul16 asia weekly 32
- Grab (formerly known as GrabTaxi) is a technology company that offers wide range of ride-hailing and logistics services through its app in Southeast Asia, specifically in Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam andIndonesia.
- singpost
- http://www.postaltechnologyinternational.com/news.php?NewsID=68137 AXA has signed a 10-year partnership agreement with Singapore Post (SingPost) to sell its life insurance products in 34 post offices across Singapore. Customers will be able to choose from a wide range of AXA@POST products including car, home, and travel insurance, as well as savings, life protection and investment plans.
- Ict
- Singapore Telecommunications Limited (commonly abbreviated as Singtel, and previously stylised as SingTel) is a Singaporean telecommunications company. The company is the largest mobile network operator in Singapore . Singtel has expanded aggressively outside its home market and owns shares in many regional operators, including 100% of the second largest Australian telco, Optus, which was acquired in 2001 from Cable & Wireless and other shareholders of Optus, and 32.15%[5] of Bharti Airtel, the third largest carrier in India.Singtel is also the second-largest company by market capitalisation listed on the Singapore Exchange[7] and is majority owned by Temasek Holdings, the investment arm of the Singapore government.
- Just like Singtel, many of Southeast Asia’s telcos face slowing growth and falling profits, their fates seemingly at odds with that of the region’s internet economy, one of the fastest growing in the world. Telcos supply the internet economy’s very lifeline: connectivity and data. Yet rather than riding the same wave of success, many are struggling.https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3018435/asias-digital-economy-booming-so-why-are-singtel-and-co
- 閱文集團宣佈與新加坡電信集團建立戰略合作關係，雙方將在東南亞網絡文學服務及內容平臺業務方面進行合作，探索東南亞市場發展潛力。http://finance.sina.com/bg/tech/technews/sinacn/2019-06-22/doc-ifzkmkve5055890.shtml
- KEPPEL Telecommunications & Transportation (Keppel T&T) marked the expansion of its data centre footprint to Hong Kong with a long-term collaboration agreement with PCCW Global, the international operating division of HKT, Hong Kong's premier telecommunications service provider. Under the agreement, Keppel Data Centres Holding and PCCW Global will co-develop and market an international carrier exchange in Hong Kong, which offers connectivity-related managed services to facilitate interconnects. http://www.btinvest.com.sg/markets/news/48449.html?source=btbn
- Parkway Pantai, plans to set up in Guangzhou and Shenzhen singtao 30jan15 a4, http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1695036/new-aberdeen-hospital-provide-affordable-services-two-thirds
- pharmaceutical
- http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-beauty/article/2100573/homegrown-hong-kong-eu-yan-sangs-138-year-tcm-journey-has
- celligenics https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3049598/next-coronavirus-how-biotech-boom-boosting-asian
- chemical
- DyStar is a provider of products and services for the textile, leather, paper, plastic and other chemical industries. The company combines the textile dye businesses of the former dye producers Bayer, Hoechst, BASF, ICI/Zeneca, Mitsubishi and Mitsui with the auxiliary activities of Boehme and Rotta. DyStar was founded in 1995 as a joint venture from Bayer AG, Hoechst AG and Mitsubishi. In 2000 the textile dyes business from BASF was integrated. In 2004 Platinum Equityacquired DyStar. In February 2010 DyStar Group was acquired by Kiri Dyes and Chemicals (KDCL) along with its subsidiaries with the support of its joint venture partner Longsheng Group, China. Currently, Senda International Capital Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Longsheng, is a majority shareholder of DyStar Group.
- agribusiness
- Wilmar International Limited founded in 1991, is Asia’s leading agribusiness group. It ranks amongst the largest listed companies by market capitalisation on the Singapore Exchange, being the second largest as of September 2010. It is a Singaporean investmentholding company that provides management services to its 400+ subsidiary companies. It is also ranked 252nd in the Fortune Global 500 list in 2015. Wilmar International business activities include oil palm cultivation, edible oils refining, oilseeds crushing, consumer pack edible oils processing and merchandising, specialty fats, oleochemicals, and biodiesel manufacturing, and grains processing and merchandising. It has over 450 manufacturing plants and an extensive distribution network covering China, India, Indonesia and some 50 other countries.
- food
- olam
- Olam International (founded in nigeria) is a leading agri-business operating from seed to shelf in 70 countries, supplying food and industrial raw materials to over 16,200 customers worldwide. Listed on singapore exchange.
- Tee Yih Jia Food Manufacturing Pte Ltd
- Sam Goi Seng Hui china daily asia weekly 24feb17
- https://thenanfang.com/breadtalk-shown-reuse-cooking-oil-sell-expired-good-undercover-report In a country where premium breaded goods are always hard to find, BreadTalk has long been popular with its Chinese customers. But now the Singapore-based franchise has come under fire after an investigative television show alleged the breadmaker is violating several health codes by reusing cooking oil and replacing expiration labels on condiments.
- licensing
- FremantleMedia Asia Pte http://www.fremantlemedia.com/, Carl Lumbard, Head of Global Licensing KFE, UK
- martin roll http://www.martinroll.com/, business and brand strategist
- http://www.canalys.com/ - on ICT, telecom etc
- http://www.regesterlarkin.com/, http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1596143/preparing-disease-outbreaks-must-be-part-business-planning
- Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH; Chinese: 新加坡报业控股) is a media organisation in Singapore with businesses in print, Internet and new media, television and radio, outdoor media, and property. Singapore Press Holdings Limited was formed on 1 January 1984 through a merger of three organisations, The Straits Times Press, Singapore News and Publications Limited and Times Publishing Berhad. In 2009, SPH celebrated its 25th anniversary and for the first time, changed its corporate logo. The new logo was launched on 30 March 2009 by former President S. R. Nathan and chairman Tony Tan Keng Yam.
- Shin Min Daily News (Chinese: 新明日报) is a Singapore Chinese-language afternoon newspaper currently published by Singapore Press Holdings (SPH). First started on March 18, 1967, by Singapore businessman Liang Runzhi (梁润之) and the renowned Hong Kong writer Louis Cha as an offshoot of Hong Kong's Ming Pao, it featured exclusive serializations of some of Cha's wuxia novels in its early days. In the early 1980s, Cha sold his shares in the paper after the Singapore government ruled that foreigners could only hold up to 3% of shares in locally based papers. It is now a tabloid-style paper focused on entertainment and local news. As a paper Shin Min Daily News is in competition with the Lianhe Wanbao, which is also published by the SPH. Both papers are now more of tabloids which cover news with sensationalised headlines, although they are still published as broadsheets. The newspaper also published in Malaysia until 1994, and the newspaper is the first Chinese-language to be published in tabloid.
- Times Publishing Limited, a media company engages in printing, publishing, and distribution of books and magazines. It publishes books, directories, magazines, and digital platforms under the brand names, such as Marshall Cavendish, Times Printers, Pansing, and Times bookstores. Marshall Cavendish publishes across education, general interest, business information, and home reference segments. Times Printers offers commercial printing services in the Asia-Pacific region. Pansing publishes books and magazines for the UK, USA, Australia, and Southeast Asia, and distributes books and magazines in different languages in Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong through a network of newsstands, convenience outlets, bookstores, petrol stations, hotels, supermarkets, and other non-traditional outlets. Times bookstores offers books and complementary products to customers through chain of outlets in Singapore and Malaysia. The company was founded in 1968 and is based in Singapore with additional offices in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Times Publishing Limited operates as a subsidiary of Fraser and Neave, Limited. https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=878629
- page one http://www.scmp.com/article/274530/turning-pages-sales, sunday morning post 28sep14
- 大眾控股有限公司（英文：Popular Holdings）（SGX：P29），也稱「大眾集團」，牌子名稱為大眾書局，是新加坡一間零售書店及出版商，同時在中國大陸、馬來西亞和印尼有分鋪及同時在加拿大有分公司。香港亦曾有分店，但因業務問題而已於2020年3月19日早上0時起正式結業[1]。公司在1924年成立，當時名為Cheng Hing Company。在2005年的財政年度它獲得1600萬新加坡元盈利增長。同年，它在台灣成立一間輔助開設英文學校[2]，擴展英文教育的市場。[3]到了2006年3月，大眾書局主辦BookFest@Singapore ，是它第一個在大陸以外舉辦的中文書展，現時BookFest每年都在新加坡和馬來西亞舉行。
- football clubs
- Tanjong Pagar United Football Club is a professional football club in Singapore. The club took part in Singapore's S.League from 1996 to 2004, and from 2011 to 2014. The club withdrew from the S.League after the 2004 season because of financial problems but returned to the S.League in 2011. They withdrew from the S.League for the same reason again for the 2015 season. Prior to the formation of the S.League, the team was known as Tiong Bahru Constituency Sports Club, and won Singapore's National Football League in 1983 and 1987. The club changed its name to Tiong Bahru United Football Club in 1996, and then to Tanjong Pagar United in 1998. The team's mascot is a Jaguar. During its first run in the S.League, the club's home ground was the Queenstown Stadium. However, as the Queenstown Stadium was occupied since 2010 by French club Etoile FC, Tanjong Pagar United was based in Clementi Stadium for the duration of the 2011 season. However, due to Etoile FC's withdrawal from the S-League by the end of the 2011 season, Tanjong Pagar shifted back to Queenstown Stadium for the 2012 season. The club were formed as Tiong Bahru Constituency Sports Club in 1975 and debuted in Division III of the National Football League, from which they were promoted as champions in 1978.
- http://www.hydroemission.com/
- https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3021212/these-insects-are-helping-singapore-save-planet Insectta, Singapore’s first urban insect farm, where black soldier fly larvae are bred for a very special purpose: to recycle Singapore’s food waste.
- international sos
- http://www.economist.com/news/business/21697868-international-sos-biggest-player-fast-growing-industry-risky-business
- The Anglo-Chinese School (ACS), is a family of Methodist schools in Singapore and Indonesia founded in 1886 by Bishop William Fitzjames Oldham as an extension of the Methodist Church. Anglo-Chinese School is usually abbreviated as "ACS," with the Anglo-Chinese Junior College abbreviated as "ACJC." Its students and alumni are referred as "ACSians" (/ˈɑksiɑn/). ACS was the first school in Singapore to have a flower named after it, the "Ascocenda Anglo-Chinese School orchid", a hybrid created by the school to mark its 116th Founder's Day on March 1, 2002.Founded on March 1, 1886 by Bishop William Fitzjames Oldham as an extension of the Methodist Church,[2][3] the school's first location was a shophouse at 70 Amoy Street, Singapore with a total of 13 pupils. The name of the school came from it conducting lessons in English at night and Chinese in the afternoon. By the following year, enrollment had increased to 104 and the school moved to Coleman Street. Between 1914 and 1920, under the leadership of the Reverend J. S. Nagle, the school introduced regular religious (or "chapel") services and physical education classes. Afternoon classes were started for academically weak pupils. In a bid to ensure continuity in school life and keep the school adequately staffed, Nagle encouraged ex-students, known as "old boys", to join the school as teachers. To this day, the Anglo-Chinese School Old Boys' Association is a link through which many "old boys" continue to maintain close ties with the school.
- alumni
- Tharman Shanmugaratnam (Tamil: தர்மன் சண்முகரத்தினம்; Chinese: 尚达曼; pinyin: Shàng Dámàn; born 25 February 1957) is a Singaporean politician and economist. He was appointed Senior Minister of Singapore on 1 May 2019. He is also Coordinating Minister for Social Policies, and advises the Prime Minister on economic policies.Tharman attended the Anglo-Chinese School. He went on to the London School of Economics (LSE), where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics; LSE later honored him with an Honorary Fellowship in 2011.[3] He subsequently obtained a master's degree in economics from Wolfson College, Cambridge,[4] and a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University, where he received a Lucius N. Littauer Fellow award for outstanding performance and potential. Tharman was a student activistwhile studying in the United Kingdom during the 1970s. Tharman is a Singaporean Tamil of Ceylonese Tamil ancestry.[32][33] One of three children, he is the son of Emeritus Professor K. Shanmugaratnam,[33] a medical scientist known as the "father of pathology in Singapore", who founded the Singapore Cancer Registry and led a number of international organisations related to cancer research and pathology. Tharman is married to Jane Yumiko Ittogi, a lawyer of Chinese-Japanese heritage. She is actively engaged in social enterprise and the non-profit arts sector. The couple have a daughter and three sons.
- 新加坡女子学校 Sekolah Perempuan Cina Singapura Singapore Chinese Girls' School (Abbreviation: SCGS) is an independent, all-girls school in Bukit Timah, Singapore. Founded in 1899, it is one of the oldest institutions in Singapore. It is a full school with both primary and secondary divisions, admitting girls between the ages of 6 and 16. The secondary division was among the first schools in Singapore to be accorded the status of an independent school in 1989.Singapore Chinese Girls' School was founded as an all-girls Peranakan school in July 1899 by a group of Straits Chinese men including Dr Lim Boon Keng, Sir Song Ong Siang and Khoo Seok Wan, at premises in Hill Street, with an English headmistress and seven girls on the register. The colours of the school crest are jade and gold. This reflects her time-honoured tradition, because jade and gold in Hokkien (Kim Gek), which is the colloquial name for SCGS girls, and in Mandarin (JinYu) connotes a young Chinese girl brought up and educated in the best manner. In today’s educational, social and cultural context, such traditional values remain as steadfast and meaningful as ever. The school motto is Sincerity, Courage, Generosity and Service.The Yin and yang aspects of the traditional Chinese symbol of balance are in jade and gold respectively.
- Global Indian International School (GIIS) is an international school established in 2002, initiated and head quartered in Singapore. GIIS has presence over 7 countries and 20 schools which include Singapore (Queenstown, East Coast, and Balestier), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), India (Hyderabad, Pune, Surat, Ahmedabad, Noida, Bangalore, and Indore), UAE (Abu Dhabi), Thailand (Bangkok), Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh) and Japan (Nischi Kasai).[citation needed] Their network of schools is educating thousands of students from more than 50 nationalities.
- Hwa Chong Institution (HCI; Chinese: 新加坡华侨中学; pinyin: Huáqiáo Zhōngxué; Wade–Giles: Hua2ch'iao2 Chung1hsüeh2; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hoâ-kiâu Tiong-o̍h) is an independent institution in Singapore offering secondary and pre-university education. Previously two separate but affiliated schools—The Chinese High School and Hwa Chong Junior College—Hwa Chong Institution was established through a merger on 1 January 2005 as the first batch of schools to offer the six-year Integrated Programme, which leads to the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Advanced Level examination. In spite of the merger, the High School section remains boys-only, while the College section remains co-educational, which admits students from Nanyang Girls' High School under the Integrated Programme.
universities
- The National University of Singapore (NUS) is an autonomous research university in Singapore. Founded in 1905 as the King Edward VII College of Medicine, NUS is the oldest higher education institution in Singapore. In September 1904, Tan Jiak Kim led a group of representatives of the Chinese and other non-European communities and petitioned the Governor of the Straits Settlements, Sir John Anderson, to establish a medical school in Singapore. Tan, who was the first president of the Straits Chinese British Association, managed to raise 87,077 Straits dollars, of which the largest amount of $12,000 came from himself.[citation needed] On 3 July 1905, the medical school was founded and was known as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School.Raffles College was merged with King Edward VII College of Medicine to form University of Malaya on 8 October 1949. The two institutions were merged to provide for the higher education needs of the Federation of Malaya and Singapore. The growth of University of Malaya was very rapid during the first decade of its establishment and resulted in the setting up of two autonomous divisions in 1959, one located in Singapore and the other in Kuala Lumpur.In 1955, Nanyang University (abbreviated Nantah, 南大) was established on the backdrop of the Chinese community in Singapore.In 1960, the governments of then Federation of Malaya and Singapore indicated their desire to change the status of the divisions into that of a national university. Legislation was passed in 1961, establishing the former Kuala Lumpur division as the University of Malaya, while the Singapore division was renamed the University of Singapore on 1 January 1962.
- singtao 14jan19 Communications and New Media department row regarding personnel charges and succession
- The East Asian Institute is an autonomous research institute of the National University of Singapore, focusing on political, social, and economic development in East Asia. As of 2017, the institute's chairman and director are Wang Gungwu (who was director from 1997 to 2007) and Zheng Yongnian respectively.The institute was founded in April 1997.[2][3] It succeeded the former Institute of East Asian Political Economy (IEAPE). The IEAPE was itself the successor of the Institute of East Asian Philosophies, founded in 1983 for the study of Confucianism by Goh Keng Swee, the then-Minister for Education and Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore. The Institute of East Asian Philosophies (IEAP) was formed after a panel of scholars was asked by the Government to make recommendations on the teaching of Confucian ethics to secondary school pupils.[4] It received a donation of $3 million from a Hong Kong industrialist, John Tung, who also joined the institute's board.[5] Several prominent scholars based in other countries, such as Tu Wei-ming and Yu Ying Shih, served as board members of the institute and consultants on the development of the teaching curriculum.[6] The scholar and academic Wu Teh Yao was a director of the IEAP.
- professor john wong (research director) and sarah chan (research officer) issued background brief no 174 on 12dec2003 "china's CEPA with HK: a gift from beijing?" - "HK's economic integration with china has hitherto been largely driven by market forces, resulting in the drastic de-industrialization of HK and the hollowing-out of its industries to china. CEPA not only cannot reverse this trend but accelerate such a process, leading HK towards further economic dependence on china."
- nanyang technological university
- The S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) was established in January 2007 as an autonomous school within the Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Known earlier as the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies when it was established in July 1996, RSIS’ mission is to be a leading research and graduate teaching institution in strategic and international affairs in the Asia Pacific. The school is named after the one of modern Singapore's pioneering leaders, the late Mr. S. Rajaratnam, who held various Cabinet appointments until his retirement.
- monetary
- 新加坡加入「放水」行列！以匯率作為主要政策工具的新加坡金管局（MAS）周一宣布，「輕微調低」目前匯率區間的斜度，有別於之前的「溫和及逐步升值」路線，而區間的闊度與中點維持不變，為一六年以來首次放鬆貨幣政策。不過，美元轉弱下，坡元兌每美元周一高見1.3679，漲0.39%。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20191015/00202_004.html
- variable capital company
- https://www.pwc.com/sg/en/asset-management/assets/svacc/svcc-comparatives-201908.pdf On 10 September 2018, the Monetary Authority of Singapore announced that the VCC Act was tabled in Singapore Parliament. The new fund structure seeks to introduce in the Lion City, fund structures which are common across other established global fund centres like Luxembourg, Ireland and Mauritius, among others.In comparison, the governance framework of Singapore VCC is on par with other fund centres. VCC only requires one locally resident director. In addition, it does not mandate the need for “independent” directors for alternative funds marketed to non-retail investors. VCC legislation does require representation of at least one director or a qualified representative of the fund management company on the board of the VCC. This is comparable to other on-shore jurisdictions such as Ireland and Luxembourg, where regulators encourage the “promoter” of the fund to have representation on the board of the fund. The Irish fund law does not compel independence of directors but the corporate governance code requires at least one independent director. Similar is the case of Luxembourg, which encourages independence rather than a statutory requirement.
- digital bank
- 新加坡金融管理局昨日公布，收到21份虛擬銀行牌照申請，當中不乏中港公司身影，料最快今年六月公布申請結果。新加坡金管局指，截至去年底收到21份虛擬銀行牌照申請，當中7份為零售銀行牌照申請，其餘為批發銀行，即主要為企業提供銀行服務。當局稱，不同企業對相關牌照表達強烈興趣，包括電商公司、電訊公司、金融科技公司及金融機構等。彭博資料顯示，提交牌照申請的公司包括小米集團(01810)旗下小米金融，及尚乘集團等合資財團、雷蛇(01337)牽頭財團、阿里巴巴(09988)旗下螞蟻金服等中港「過江龍」，並有網約車平台Grab及新加坡電信公司財團等等。已在港取得虛擬銀行牌照的尚乘集團與小米金融昨日公布，夥同新能源集團及Funding Societies，於去年底向新加坡金管局申請虛擬批發銀行牌照，冀通過創新金融科技，為中小型企業提供金融平台銀行一體化解決方案，滿足不同企業用戶的發展需求。新加坡金管局去年曾聲言，將發出最多5個虛擬銀行牌照，分別為兩個零售銀行牌照，及3個批發銀行牌照。局方預計成功申請者將於明年中開始營業，意味着有一年準備時間，相較香港虛擬銀行六至九個月的準備時間稍長。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20200108/00202_001.html
- https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3044349/chinas-ant-financial-joins-razer-grab-contest-singapore-digital China’s fintech giant Ant Financial has applied for a digital wholesale banking licence in Singapore, joining the city state’s digital banking race to create virtual lenders after gaming start-up Razer and ride-hailing company Grab applied for full banking licences in the same week.“In line with our commitment to promoting financial inclusion globally, we have submitted an application to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for a digital wholesale banking licence,” an Ant Financial spokesperson told the South China Morning Post on Thursday. “We look forward to contributing to the development of the digital banking landscape in Singapore.”Last June the MAS unveiled plans to grant as many as five virtual bank licences to boost competition and innovation. Requiring capital of S$1.5 billion (US$1.1 billion), two will be full bank licences that will allow the applicant to provide a range of banking services to retail and non-retail customers. The other three will be wholesale licences, requiring capital of S$100 million, allowing applicants to provide services to small and medium enterprises as well as other non-retail customer segments.
- fintech
- 新加坡上周舉行為期5日的金融科技展，期間公佈推出11項新措施。新加坡金管局金融中心發展部門主管張晉銘於當地接受本港傳媒訪問時指，與香港金管局合作籌建的跨境貿易融資平台只是頭炮，相信兩地於eKYC、支付平台等領域上可有更多合作空間。
「新加坡係希望同其他地區合作，設立eKYC中央客戶身份識別系統。對比只局限於本地，相信一個跨地區的資料庫會更有助審查工作。」張晉銘以新加坡居民到香港銀行開戶為例，若兩地資料庫可以接通，港銀屆時便可接駁新加坡資料庫核實客戶資料，加快開戶流程。雖然港版eKYC尚在研究階段，但張晉銘認為，兩地可按各自的時間表推行，當大家準備就緒再研究合作細節。「半年前我都估唔到大家會合作整貿易融資平台，但今日就已經發生咗，現在科技發展迅速，要合作都唔需要太耐。」張 晉銘又言，雖然新加坡金融科技發展起步不及倫敦等地早，但全靠轉身快（Start Small,Move Fast）。以新加坡個人（P2P）即時支付平台PayNow為例，剛於7月推出，上周便宣佈與泰國央行的PromptPay平台連接，用戶日後可通過手 機跨境滙錢。PayNow由新加坡銀行公會主導，滙豐、渣打等共7間銀行參與，覆蓋當地超過9成零售客戶，已有逾60萬名用戶註冊。用戶只需要輸入對方已登記的身份證 號碼或電話號碼，便可進行免費跨行轉賬。事實上，本港的「快速支付系統」（Faster Payment）亦將於明年9月面世，張晉銘透露，兩地已就接通平台作初步了解。https://hk.finance.appledaily.com/finance/daily/article/20171120/20219614 - 新加坡財政部長王瑞傑表示，將於今年稍後時間推出SGQR，屆時商戶只需透過一張二維碼標籤，就能接受客戶以各種形式的電子支付渠道付款。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20180714/PDF/a16_screen.pdf
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-23/singapore-to-stop-adding-cars-on-its-roads-from-february-2018 Singapore, among the world’s most expensive places to own a vehicle, will stop increasing the total number of cars on its roads next year. The government will cut the annual growth rate for cars and motorcycles to zero from 0.25 percent starting in February, the transport regulator said on Monday.
- sugar
- Seven major drinks companies including Coca-Cola and PepsiCo will limit the sugar content of drinks they sell in Singapore, as part of the city-state's campaign to fight diabetes. Singapore is one of the first countries in Asia to target sugary drinks, bringing it in line with many Western nations that have sought to mitigate the health risks associated with sugar through measures such as taxes and warning labels. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-4812414/Coca-Cola-PespiCo-agree-cap-sugar-drinks-Singapore.html
- biomedical
- Singapore's vision is to be the Biopolis of Asia, a leading international biomedical sciences cluster advancing human health, through the pursuit of excellence in research and development, manufacturing and healthcare delivery. To achieve this, Singapore has built up world-class capabilities across the entire value chain from drug discovery, development and clinical research, to manufacturing and healthcare delivery. In the year 2000, Singapore's Biomedical Sciences (BMS) initiative was launched to establish a focused effort on the development of this sector as the fourth pillar of Singapore's industry cluster, alongside electronics, chemicals and engineering. The BMS initiative covers the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Medical Engineering and Technology and Healthcare Services industries. An integrated strategy was adopted for the development of the BMS sector, focusing on Human Capital, Intellectual Capital and Industrial Capital, or 3 Cs in short. The first phase of the BMS initiative (2000–2005) put in place key building blocks by establishing core capabilities in biomedical research, and introducing important human capital and industrial capital development initiatives. For the next phase (2006–2010), we will build on this foundation and strengthen our capabilities in translational and clinical research to bring discoveries from the bench to the bedside and the marketplace, and ultimately improve human healthcare.Singapore offers unlimited opportunities for Biomedical Sciences (BMS) companies. Strong government support and a pro-business environment have attracted industry leaders such as Abbott, Aventis, Affymetrix, Baxter, Becton-Dickinson, Eli Lilly, Genentech, GlaxoSmithKline, Lonza, Merck & Co, Novartis, Pfizer, Schering-Plough, Siemens and Wyeth to Singapore for manufacturing and R&D activities.The three groups that are involved in Singapore's BMS initiative are the Biomedical Sciences Group (BMSG) of the Economic Development Board (EDB), Bio*One Capital of the EDB and the Biomedical Research Council (BMRC) of the Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR). BMSG is responsible for industry development, Bio*One Capital makes strategic investments in companies that lead to economic spin offs for Singapore, while BMRC takes the lead in coordinating and funding public sector and academic research, as well as supporting the development of human capital.There are now close to 45 pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical devices manufacturing plants in Singapore. There are also over 30 companies with R&D operations here.Some examples of companies with significant operations are provided below. In 1994, Schering-Plough became the first US pharmaceutical corporation to establish manufacturing operations in Singapore. Over the next 12 years, the company continued to expand its operations across the value chain. Today, Schering-Plough is Singapore's largest pharmaceutical investor and employer, with a fixed asset investment exceeding US$1bn. Building on its base of seven manufacturing plants in Singapore, the company has the most comprehensive pharmaceutical manufacturing profile in the country. The products made in Singapore include active drug substances, tablets, dry powder inhalers, sterile injectables and nasal sprays. Apart from manufacturing, Schering-Plough's Asia-Pacific headquarters is also located in Singapore to coordinate and direct marketing, sales and business activities for its subsidiaries in more than 12 countries.https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/palgrave.jcb.3050083
Industry
- fianncial services
- Singapore seizes on soaring Asia gold demand http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1446c078-fffa-11e3-9a4a-00144feab7de.html#axzz36BTYVGIj
No influx of European wealth for Singapore
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/83f369ea-2051-11e4-890a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3A3Dl0sSw
- http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21714384-city-state-wants-fintech-bolsters-not-disrupts-mainstream
- https://www.straitstimes.com/business/banking/ocbc-in-talks-with-singtel-about-virtual-bank-license-say-sources Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) is in talks with companies, including Singapore Telecommunications, about seeking one of the city-state's planned virtual bank licences, according to people familiar with the matter. Singapore's second-largest bank would take a minority stake in any virtual-banking joint venture and sees it as a way to tap new customers and markets, the people said, requesting anonymity because the talks are confidential. For example, Singtel might have clients for its phone services that don't bank with OCBC, one of the people said.
- Singapore residents have more than 40 online shopping options, including popular brands such as RedMart, Shopee, and Ea Mart. Most of these online stores sell fresh produce and waive delivery fees if shoppers spend a minimum of about S$50 (US$35.50).https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3080600/coronavirus-singapore-online-grocers-see-explosion-demand-amid
- urban planning
- http://www.afr.com/news/world/singapore-displays-its-skills-in-global-shop-window-20150730-ginh25 Singapore, the second busiest port in the world, is pursuing a flourishing trade beyond the wharfs: exporting itself. As rapid urbanisation rips through Asia and the world, the island state is forging a role for itself by cloning its own skills and models, from teaching maths and treating water to developing airports or entire cities. "A lot of cities in the region are looking at Singapore in terms of potential lessons they can learn," says Malone-Lee Lai Choo, director at the National University of Singapore's Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities. Their interest, she says, ranges from Singapore's expertise in waste or water treatment systems through to urban planning. Myanmar officials were even keen to take Singapore's roof gardens to the dilapidated streets of Yangon. Steve Leonard, who heads the government's drive to become the world's pioneering digital nation, points to the similarity of challenges faced the world over, from crowded roads to insufficient hospital beds. Water purification, he says, is "something Singapore has brought to lots of parts of the world. It is something we needed, but lots of other countries face that too. And now we look to do the same thing with tech around health."
- legal
- 星仲裁地位直逼本港http://paper.wenweipo.com/2015/01/04/YO1501040018.htm
- mou signed by siac with other countries https://www.siac.org.sg
- telecom- http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/tpg-telecom-wins-right-to-be-singapore-s-4th-telco/3366720.html
- 新加坡郵政局將採用智能信箱，居民日後的每個郵件都可被追蹤，並且可在收到手機程式通知後，才到信箱同時領取郵件及較大型的包裹，毋須不斷查看信箱。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190926/00180_035.html
- data centre
- http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1880844/singapore-mantrapping-away-hong-kong-financial-competitiveness
- oil services
- http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cda4549a-f1ac-11e5-9f20-c3a047354386.html Oil services groups ditch Singapore for Malaysia
- gambling/betting
- http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1588926/singapore-set-ban-sports-betting-overseas-websites
- 亞洲爭開賭蠶食收益 增長陷停滯http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2014/09/24/a19-0924.pdf
- https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3036465/singapore-leader-waiting-heng-swee-keat-turns-heat-opposition
People
- lee kuan yew family
- 李顯揚退役後，於1994年4月加入新加坡電訊（SingTel）。《福布斯》說他不甘新加坡電訊固守方隅，致志效法父親把新加坡塑造為「亞洲四小龍」之一的決心和毅力，將公司拓展為泛亞洲的旗艦通訊商。1995年，他由地方服務行政副主席晉升至行政總裁。他起先曾因投資歐洲和菲律賓，令新加坡電訊於1995至96年錄得歷來最大年度虧損，但他繼續冒險，在1999至2002年間斥資近100億美元收購別的亞洲通訊商股權。縱然令公司負債加重，股價跌到不及1993年上市時的一半，但他最終賭贏。新加坡電訊在其領導下順利由公營走入私營，用戶由僅本土20萬個拓展至國際，成為除中國大陸外擁有最多用戶的亞洲電訊商。https://news.mingpao.com/pns/dailynews/web_tc/article/20170627/s00014/1498500308691
- Goh Keng Swee, DUT(First Class), (6 October 1918 – 14 May 2010) was the second Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore between 1973 and 1984, and a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Kreta Ayer constituency for a quarter of a century. Born in Malacca in the Straits Settlements into a Peranakan family, he came to Singapore at the age of two years. He was a student at Raffles College and the London School of Economics and Political Science, and his interest in politics began during his time in London where he met fellow students seeking independence for British Malaya (which covered modern Malaysia and Singapore).Goh Keng Swee was born in Malacca in the Straits Settlements on 6 October 1918 into a middle-income Peranakan family, the fifth of six children. His father Goh Leng Inn was a manager of a rubber plantation, while his mother Tan Swee Eng was from the family that produced the Malaysian politicians Tun Tan Cheng Lock and his son, Tun Tan Siew Sin, who would later become Goh's lifelong political opponent.
- Sinnathamby Rajaratnam, DUT (First Class) (25 February 1915 – 22 February 2006), was a Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore from 1980–85, a long-serving Minister and member of the Cabinet from 1959–88 and a short story writer. He was one of the pioneer leaders of independent Singapore as it achieved self-government in 1959 and later independence in 1965. He devoted much of his adult life to public service, and helped shape the mentality of Singaporeans on contemporary issues. One of the schools of Nanyang Technological University, is named the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in honour of him, as is the S. Rajaratnam block of his alma mater, Raffles Institution. The second child of Sabapathy Pillai Sinnathamby and his wife N. Annamah, both of Tamil descent, Rajaratnam was born in Vaddukoddai (Tholpuram), Yazhpanam, Sri Lanka. His father had wanted him to be born there for auspicious reasons after the premature death of his older brother. He was then brought back to Malaya and raised in Seremban and Selangor.In 1954, Rajaratnam cofounded the People's Action Party together with Lee Kuan Yew, Toh Chin Chye, Goh Keng Swee and others. He became popular among his supporters for being able to effectively follow the 'mood of the people'. He thought of a multiracial Singapore and envisioned her to be a 'global city'. He was also actively involved in organising major political campaigns against Singaporean groups on the far left. During his years in parliament, he served as Minister for Culture (1959), Minister for Foreign Affairs (1965–1980), Minister for Labour (1968–1971), Deputy Prime Minister (1980–1985) and was later appointed as Senior Minister until his retirement in 1988. Rajaratnam is remembered for writing the Singapore National Pledge in 1966. Rajaratnam was Singapore's first foreign minister, following its abrupt independence in 1965.
- Rajaratnam first met his Hungarian wife Piroska Feher while studying in London and quietly married in 1943. Feher's grandmother was a member of the wealthy Csáky clan who had lost their fortune due to the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War I. Piroska, disgruntled by the rise of Nazism, moved to the UK where she worked as an au pair and teacher and eventually met her future husband. Former Hungarian MEP Gyula Hegyi is her nephew.
- scmp 4nov18
- Mr Ravi Menon was appointed Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in 2011. He was previously Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Trade & Industry (MTI) and Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Finance (MOF).Mr Menon began his career at MAS in 1987. During his 16 years in MAS, he was involved in monetary policy; econometric forecasting; organisational development; banking regulation and liberalisation; and integrated supervision of complex financial institutions. Mr Menon spent a year at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, as a member of the secretariat to the Financial Stability Forum. A recipient of the Public Administration Medal (Gold), Mr Menon has served on a variety of boards in the public, private, and people sectors in Singapore. On the international front, Mr Menon is a member of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) Steering Committee. Mr Menon holds a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) in Economics from the National University of Singapore.http://www.mas.gov.sg/about-mas/overview/management-team.aspx; Mr. Menon started his career in the MAS in 1987 as an Officer and served as its Assistant Managing Director since 2002. He was then seconded to the Ministry of Finance in 2003, where he served as Deputy Secretary (Policy). He joined the Administrative Service in 2005. Since 2007, he served as Second Permanent Secretary (Trade and Industry) and in 2009, he was appointed
- Halimah binti Yacob (Jawi: حاليمه بنت ياچوب; born 23 August 1954) is a Singaporean politician of paternal Indian and maternal Malay[4]descent. Formerly a member of the country's governing People's Action Party (PAP), she was the ninth Speaker of Parliament, from January 2013 to August 2017. She was a Member of Parliament (MP) representing Jurong Group Representation Constituency between 2001 and 2015, and Marsiling-Yew Tee Group Representation Constituency between 2015 and 2017. On 7 August 2017, she resigned from her positions as Speaker and MP, and from her membership in the PAP, to stand as a candidate for the 2017 Singapore presidential election.Halimah Yacob was educated at Singapore Chinese Girls' School and Tanjong Katong Girls' School, before going on to the University of Singapore where she completed an LLB (Hons) degree in 1978. She was called to the Singapore Bar in 1981. In 2001, she completed an LLM degree at the National University of Singapore, and was conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from NUS on 7 July 2016.
- 傅海燕，1964年生于新加坡，祖父傅无闷为新加坡著名报人，父亲傅超贤为新加坡前总理李光耀的新闻秘书。傅海燕大学毕业后，先后在银行等部门工作。踏入政坛前，傅海燕在新加坡港务局工作了11年，并成为负责东南亚和日本区域的总裁。之后，她投身政界被委以重任，先为国家发展部政务部长，后又兼任教育部高级政务部长。2012年8月1日，新加坡总理李显龙8月1日宣布改组内阁和重组政府部门，傅海燕升任总理公署部长兼内政部第二部长及外交部第二部长。She is the second woman in Singapore's history to hold the status of full Minister, after Lim Hwee Hwa. Fu began her career with Overseas Union Bank (OUB) as an auditor from 1985 to 1988. She then joined the Haw Par Group, where she worked in corporate planning, financial control and business development from 1991 to 1995.In October 1995, Fu joined the PSA Corporation as an Assistant Director (Finance). She took on additional responsibilities as Vice-President (Marketing) and assumed the position of Financial Controller of the PSA Corporation in October 1998. She was promoted to the position of Executive Vice-President (Finance) in January 1999. In April 2003, Fu was appointed chief executive officer of Singapore Terminals. In 2004, she became the chief executive officer of PSA South East Asia and Japan, where she was responsible for the business performance of PSA's flagship terminals in Singapore, Thailand, Brunei and Japan.
- 前日晚上，新加坡文化、社區及青年部部長傅海燕為林太安排晚宴，與當地女性官員聚餐。原來，林太與傅海燕已經相識多年，林太笑言，曾幾何時，她倆分別是香港及新加坡兩地政府唯一的女性部長或司局長，若然當年舉辦同類女性官員聚餐，恐怕只得她們兩人「撐枱腳」呢！http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170804/PDF/a9_screen.pdf
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20161020/00176_088.html民主思路理事黃梓謙（Gary）都唔例外。佢喺facebook透露自己啱啱先放完個悠長假期，仲好開心咁話一返到香港就同新加坡外交部前部長楊榮文見面，仲上載咗兩人嘅合照。
Constitution http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/aol/search/display/view.w3p;page=0;query=DocId%3A"cf2412ff-fca5-4a64-a8ef-b95b8987728e"%20Status%3Ainforce%20Depth%3A0;rec=0
- The Constitution of the Republic of Singapore is the supreme law ofSingapore. A written constitution, the text which took effect on 9 August 1965 is derived from the Constitution of the State of Singapore 1963, provisions of theFederal Constitution of Malaysia made applicable to Singapore by the Republic of Singapore Independence Act 1965 (No. 9 of 1965, 1985 Rev. Ed.), and the Republic of Singapore Independence Act itself. The text of the Constitution is one of the legally binding sources of constitutional law in Singapore, the others being judicial interpretations of the Constitution, and certain other statutes. Non-binding sources are influences on constitutional law such as soft law, constitutional conventions, and public international law. In the exercise of its original jurisdiction – that is, its power to hear cases for the first time – the High Court carries out two types of judicial review: judicial review of legislation, and judicial review of administrative acts. Although in a 1980 case the Privy Council held that the fundamental liberties in Part IV of the Constitution should be interpreted generously, Singapore courts usually adopt a philosophy of deference to Parliamentand a strong presumption of constitutional validity, which has led to fundamental liberties being construed narrowly in certain cases. The courts also generally adopt a purposive approach, favouring interpretations that promote the purpose or object underlying constitutional provisions. Article 4 of the Constitution expressly declares that it is the supreme law of the land. The Constitution also appears to satisfy Albert Venn Dicey's three criteria for supremacy: codification, rigidity, and the existence of judicial review by the courts. However, the view has been taken that it may not be supreme in practice and that Singapore's legal system is de facto characterized by parliamentary sovereignty.
presidential election
- https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/393475 Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has issued the Writ of Election for Presidential Election 2017 which is a reserved election for candidates from the Malay community, according to the republic's Elections Department.
大新加坡
- 沈旭輝article 11aug15 a21
singapore cooperation programme
- Singapore established the Singapore Cooperation Programme (SCP) in 1992 to share our developmental experience with others. The SCP is premised on our firm belief that investment in human resource and capacity building is critical to long-term sustainable development. Till date, over 110,000 participants from more than 170 countries and territories have attended our programmes. The SCP continually evolves to address emerging developmental priorities and challenges around the world. We organise programmes in areas such asPublic Administration, Law and Judiciary and Trade and Economy. In recent years, we have introduced new training themes on Smart Nation, and Heritage and Preservation. https://www.scp.gov.sg/
Shangri-La Dialogue
- Initiated in 2002 in response to the clear need for a forum where the Asia-Pacific’s defence ministers could engage in dialogue aimed at building confidence and fostering practical security cooperation, the Asia Security Summit – or IISS Shangri-La Dialogue as it has come to be known – has established itself as a key element of the emerging regional security architecture. It is the most important regular gathering of defence professionals in the region and has become a vital annual fixture in the diaries of Asia-Pacific defence ministers and their civilian and military chiefs of staff. By catering for their specific interests and needs, and by facilitating easy communication and fruitful contact among them, the Shangri-La Dialogue has helped to engender a sense of community among the most important policy-makers in the defence and security establishments of regional states and of major powers with significant stakes in Asia-Pacific security. The Dialogue’s format, agenda, and cohort of delegates have evolved incrementally. The IISS soon modified the Dialogue’s structure – originally based simply on plenary sessions – to permit several simultaneous break-out groups during one half-day of the summit, allowing in-depth discussion of a greater variety of critical regional security topics. After several years, we established the principle that all speaking slots in plenary sessions and break-out groups would be allocated to ministers, other senior official delegates or distinguished legislators with strong defence credentials.
- http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/1963157/what-shangri-la-dialogue-and-why-it-so-importantThe IISS Asia Security Summit was launched in 2002 by British think tank the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Singaporean government. This annual dialogue brings together defence ministers and military chiefs from 28 Asia-Pacific countries to talk about security in the region. It gets its name from the location of the meeting, the Shangri-La hotel in Singapore. The dialogue gathers military representatives from some of the world’s most powerful countries to discuss pressing and significant defence and security issues. The meeting is a chance for defence ministers, military chiefs and high-ranking defence officials to hold bilateral meetings on its sidelines. It is also attended by legislators, academic experts, journalists and business delegates from around the globe, making it a vehicle for public policy development and discussions on defence and security in the Asia-Pacific.
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170603/00180_003.html馬尼拉雲頂世界度假村遇襲，正值鄰近的新加坡舉行第十六屆亞洲安全會議（又名香格里拉對話）前夕。為期三日的香格里拉對話昨晚開幕，中、美等四十國派員出席。新加坡國土安全部門同日公布《二○一七年新加坡恐怖主義威脅評估報告》，指出該國近年的恐襲威脅一直處於最高水平，尤其是來自回教極端組織「伊斯蘭國」（IS）等。
- http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2096694/why-china-sent-lower-ranking-delegation-singapore China’s delegation at the forum over the past two years was led by Admiral Sun Jianguo. Sun, while not a member of the powerful Central Military Commission, is deputy chief of the Joint Staff Department, one of the 15 units under the CMC. A Chinese military source told the South China Morning Post that PLA leaders were too busy to attend the forum due to pressing issues at home. “There are so many big events this year such as the 90th anniversary of the PLA’s foundation, while the ongoing military reforms also make every leader much busier,” the source said. Zhou Chenming, a Chinese military analyst, agreed that the pressing reforms to cut the size of the military to make it leaner and more efficient were the main reason for the limited presence in Singapore.
- 6月4日上午，中國人民解放軍軍事科學院副院長何雷在新加坡會見了日本自衞隊副統合幕僚長住田和明中將, 磋商中日海空聯絡機制。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170605/PDF/a19_screen.pdf
http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180602/00178_002.html
- 今次香格里拉安全對話，中國方面由解放軍軍事科學院副院長何雷中將率團參與。外界分析，由於南海爭議成為今次會議重點討論問題之一，中方或對此不滿，因此派出「低級別」代表團參與。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180602/00178_003.html
- shum yuk fai was one of the participants hkej 4jun18
international affairs brokerage
- 美國總統特朗普日前宣布特金會如期在新加坡舉行，新加坡國防部長黃永宏上周六指該國的軍方和外交部正積極準備峰會的保安等工作。特金會一波三折，黃永宏稱有許多人認為沒有新加坡，峰會不會有如今的進展，美韓已表達謝意。黃永宏希望峰會能如期舉行，新加坡亦會為峰會支付小部分保安和後勤支出。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180604/00180_004.html
- hkej 7jun18 shum article
「新加坡講座」
- 當地時間 11 月 13 日上午，中國國務院總理李克強在「新加坡講座」發 表《在開放融通中共創共享繁榮》的主旨演講並回答 現場提問。李克強強調，「區域全面經濟夥伴關係協 定」（RCEP）將覆蓋世界近一半人口和近三分之一 貿易量，是按照世貿組織規則達成自貿協定，有利於 地區國家推進區域經濟一體化。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2018/11/14/a06-1114.pdf
training civil servants of other countries
- 亞洲週刊23jun2013 issue
Workers Party
- http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/auditor-general-finds/1646268.html?cid=TWTCNA
Auditor-General finds 'major lapses' in Workers' Party-run town council accounts
Pension
- http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21613346-strains-pension-fund-hint-broader-problems-cracks-fa-ade
foreigners in singapore
- A Sustainable Population for a Dynamic Singapore: Population White Paper (Chinese: 人口白皮书), or simply known as the Population White Paper (PWP), is a controversial white paper released by the government of Singapore in January 2013 that projects Singapore's population as 6.9 million by the year 2030.The PWP projects an increase of 1.6 million people from 2013, or an average of 100,000 more people in Singapore each year.[2] The PWP argued that up to 30,000 new permanent residents and 25,000 naturalized citizens each year are needed to sustain Singapore's population due to the falling birth rates in Singapore. It also justified immigration and presence of foreign workers as helping local businesses thrive and "create good jobs for Singaporeans". The PWP also included additional measures to encourage marriage and increase the birth rate. The motion was passed in Parliament to endorse the PWP by 77 votes to 13 (the 13 opponents included all members of the opposition and three nominated MPs),[4] albeit after amendments made to leave out "population policy" and add focus on infrastructure and transport development.[5]
- [precarious belongings] immigrant intake steadily grown over the past couple of decades. Of this, both temporary and permanent migrant from prc make up the largest group followed by those from india and philiippines.
- immigrant composition - chinese (74.1pc), malays (13.4pc), indians (9.2pc) in 2010. The so-called CMIO policy of multiracialism confined singapore's national identity to these four races.
- well known for its amary of low-wage temporary migrant workers employed in various manual and labor-intensive occupations such as construction, manufacturing, shipbuilding, service sector roles, and domestic work. It has also long imported white collar labor on temporary employment passes,. Recently the skilled workforce has changed and large numbers of middling professionals from other parts of asia (mainly india and china, but also large nos of filipinos and other southeast asian groups) are working and increasingly settling permanently in singapore.
- The living conditions of Singapore’s army of low-wage migrant workers have become a matter of national debate over the past month as the novel coronavirus swept through their dormitories – the biggest of which house between 10 and 20 men to a room, sometimes sharing a communal shower area with more than 100 others.The dormitory operators, ranging from listed conglomerates to smaller construction companies, have since come in for criticism after reports emerged of kitchens infested with cockroaches, and bathrooms with overflowing urinals. As dormitories are regulated by the government, it has raised questions about how the authorities have enforced rules, why they seemed to have overlooked a brewing outbreak and if tougher legislation is needed on dormitories, some of which have become highly profitable for their owners.At Cochrane Lodge 2 where Khokan has lived for eight years, dormitory staff seemed unprepared for the Covid-19 outbreak, he said, even though Singapore had its first infection as early as January 23 and the first migrant worker caught the disease on February 8. The underpinning societal divide between migrant workers and Singaporeans that the pandemic has exposed is nothing new. In 2008, for example, residents of the upper-middle-class Serangoon Gardens neighbourhood fought the government’s plans to convert an unused school there into a workers’ dormitory. Of the 7,000 households, 1,400 signed a petition, citing how there might be higher crime rates and that property values would fall. Even though the government eventually went ahead with its plan, multiple changes were made, including the building of a road so that buses transporting workers could bypass the congested neighbourhood.Some mega-dorms, or what officials call purpose-built dormitories, had already existed then, but what led to their proliferation and a concerted effort to move more workers into these quarters was a riot in Little India in 2013. A road accident in December that year killed an Indian construction worker, angering other foreign workers who formed a 300-strong mob that set fire to police and emergency vehicles. Some 50 police officers were injured and the government had to mobilise its elite Gurkha contingent. In the light of the episode, then deputy prime minister and home affairs minister Teo Chee Hean convened a committee of inquiry to investigate the riot. Residents testified that migrant workers, who visited Little India to buy groceries and remit money, would often congregate under apartment buildings to drink and eat. Some residents said they were unhappy that the workers littered, vomited and urinated there. The committee later recommended that the government work with dormitory operators to include more facilities at workers’ living quarters. “Dormitory-based provision shops, especially if reasonably priced, could also encourage some workers to stay at their dormitory rather than travel out to a congregation area,” it said in its 2014 report. The government eventually commissioned the building of purpose-built dormitory complexes with minimarts, food courts, and even cinemas and cricket fields – described by then manpower minister Tan Chuan-Jin as “self-contained living, social and recreational facilities” when he introduced the legislation governing them in 2015. This Foreign Employee Dormitories Act (FEDA) sets out how mega-dormitories with more than 1,000 workers should be licensed and run, including provisions for sanitation, hygiene and living space per worker.Even as new rules were enacted, dormitory operators saw huge market potential, as construction and manufacturing firms continued to import foreign labour.Centurion Corporation, for example – which lists five of the city state’s mega-dormitories among the 12 worker accommodation assets it operates across Singapore and Malaysia – reported an 11 per cent jump in revenue to S$133.4 million (US$94.66 million) last year from the previous financial year. Ngoh Yi Sin, an equity research analyst at CIMB Bank, said a regulatory shift which required employers to move workers into accommodation of a higher standard further drove demand. The industry was not easy to enter, she said, noting the huge amount of start-up capital and scale a firm would need – but Lee Keng Ling, an analyst at DBS Bank, said Centurion, among other early players, had the first-mover advantage, which allowed business to quickly take off. Centurion’s purpose-built worker accommodation segment registered annual average growth of 37 per cent from 2011 to 2019, according to Kong. The firm’s dormitories – Weslite Toh Guan, Westlite Mandai, Westlite Woodlands, Westlite Juniper and ASPRI-Westlite Papan – house 28,000 workers. There are 27 players in Singapore’s concentrated dormitory industry, most of which are profit-making enterprises, though eight dorms are non-commercial. While commercial players charge about S$300 to S$400 per worker a month, non-commercial operators use their dormitories to house their own workers.As well as Centurion, other major operators include Vorbis Enterprise, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aik Chuan Construction Group, which owns three dormitories in Singapore housing more than 20,000 workers. SembCorp Industries, Keppel Corporation, Capital Development, S11 Capital Investment, and Cushman & Wakefield Facilities and Engineering all also operate more than one dorm. All of them have declined to comment on their dormitory ventures and the impact of the pandemic. Other smaller players include construction companies and shipping lines. https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3082453/coronavirus-after-little-india-riot-singapore-promised
- Singapore’s government on Wednesday strongly refuted speculation widely circulating online that suggested the Manpower Minister Josephine Teo had enriched herself from the development of temporary facilities to house migrant workers infected with
Covid-19. The government’s forceful rebuttal was accompanied by a statement by Teo’s lawyers describing the comments as “untrue, scurrilous and completely baseless”. The lawyers served a letter to two people, according to local media.Local blogs in recent days had been highlighting posts by Facebook users who questioned the involvement of government-linked urban planning firm Surbana Jurong – whose international chief executive Teo Eng Cheong is Teo’s husband – in the conversion of the Singapore Expo, an exhibition centre, into a facility housing 8,000 beds.The centre is among several so-called community-care facilities that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s government hastily developed in April as Covid-19 infections surged through cramped dormitories that house hundreds of thousands of low-wage guest workers. https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3085341/coronavirus-singapore-rebuts-claims-manpower-minister-josephine - https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3087039/singapore-build-new-dormitories-set-rules-migrant The Singapore government on Monday promised to build more dormitories and improve the living standards of migrant workers, who make up more than 90 per cent of the city state’s 35,292
coronavirus infections. At least 11 new dormitories will be completed within the next two years, housing some 60,000 workers, with plans to construct more down the road for another 40,000 workers. These purpose-built premises will come equipped with amenities including mini-marts, barber services, and indoor recreation facilities.
- discrimination
- https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/3020844/singapores-brownface-saga-sparks-debate-race
- 新加坡一名華裔藝人塗黑臉孔扮演印度人引起爭議後，一對印度歌手近日拍攝饒舌音樂影片嘲諷華人種族歧視，二人在當中講粗口及舉中指。政府指有關影片加劇種族爭端，命令社交網站不許當地民眾觀看，警方也介入調查。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190804/00180_016.html
foreign domestic helpers
- "home away from home" scmp 15jul18
- https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3044897/singapores-migrant-workers-just-want-safe-space-gather There are big parks the foreign workers can head to, such as Singapore Botanic Gardens or Toa Payoh Park, which Resa Lavylyn Peraz, 35, said is “big and has a lot of shade”. But Peraz and her friends reserve that for special occasions like a birthday, because travelling there takes precious time and money. It is easier for her to meet her friends near Lucky Plaza as not all of them get the same hours off. Peraz herself gets to leave home at 9am but has to be back by 5.30pm.
- https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3076215/coronavirus-philippines-luzon-lockdown-hits-domestic The Quezon City native is one of many workers who have been impacted by tightening travel restrictions around
, which have left domestic helper agencies grappling with disruptions to worker supply, particularly in Singapore and Hong Kong.In the wealthy Lion City, nearly 20 per cent of its 1.37 million households employ a domestic helper, and about one in four of these workers come from the Philippines. Hong Kong, which has a population of 7.4 million people, has about 400,000 foreign domestic workers, with most coming from the Philippines and Indonesia.Leung, the owner of the boutique helper agency, said she had seen a similar sentiment from
domestic workers. “They are afraid that when they go to Singapore, they would get infected,” she said.
Housing
- measures to help single people hket 13mar15 a42
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20150323/PDF/a18_screen.pdf 全球樓價急升，各地政 府為了壓抑樓價，紛紛推出 相應措施。在新加坡，政府 為了解決市民的住屋問題， 多年來在發展公營房屋，即 所謂組屋，投入大量資源，目 前新加坡已有八成半人口入住 政府的組屋單位。而且新加坡 政府為了讓國民更容易置業， 近年盡量令組屋的升值與薪金 增長相符。然而，隨着新加坡 人對住屋質素的需求日高，組 屋已難以滿足年輕專業人士， 私樓價格回落近4%，但是，相 比起組屋轉售價，新加坡人的 負擔能力反而愈來愈低。
Pollution
- http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/environment/story/still-hazy-here-are-5-things-about-the-new-haze-law-singapore-20140, http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/06/us-singapore-haze-idUSKBN0G611P20140806, http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/08/11/no-civil-suits-haze-pollution-official.html, http://www.straitstimes.com/news/opinion/more-opinion-stories/story/region-gain-if-haze-law-has-effect-20140812,
waste
- landfill
- 新加坡現時只有實馬高島（Pulau Semakau）一個堆填區，現已半滿，實踐零廢生活迫在眉睫。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20180131/00176_085.html
carbon tax
- https://www.ft.com/content/489cb0ca-f80f-11e6-9516-2d969e0d3b65 A carbon tax plan revealed this week by Singapore will cover refineries in the city-state, officials confirmed on Tuesday, adding to pressure on international oil groups in one of Asia’s biggest refining centres.
integrated food system
- FoodPacific Manufacturing Journal May 2015 issue page 14-19
Libel/defamation
- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-2825035/Singapore-PM-wins-defamation-case-against-blogger.html, http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1634697/singapore-pm-lee-hsien-loong-wins-defamation-case-against-blogger
Encouraging citizens to give birth
- http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/more-items-of-the-sg50/1489224.html?cid=TWTCNA
religion
- christianity
- 1923 新嘉坡自立會蓋山系星州華僑呂君砥山 (温州基督教编年史)
- presbysterian
- pei hwa presbysterian church and primary school
- etymology
- *********https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-etymology-of-the-word-Singapore
- [aerial asia episode on singapore] singapura is a malay word
- Urban planning, in fact, began with the Raffles Town Plan in late 1822, barely four years after Singapore’s founding. More than 80 per cent of Singaporeans today live in government-built and subsidised flats; indeed, Singapore has the world’s most comprehensive public housing programme. This began with the establishment of the Singapore Improvement Trust in 1927 with the aim of providing affordable housing for the general population. Singapore’s much-vaunted social security system – the Central Provident Fund (CPF) – was also instituted by the British in 1955. https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2184501/200-years-raffles-singapore-can-embrace-another-british-idea
- [The singapore foreign service the first 40 years by gretchen liu] following self-rule in 1959, pm lee kuan yew had consciously cultivated links with the world community to create an international image for the island. He also links with the world community to create an international image for the island. He also established personal contacts with third wold leaders, travelled abroad and had even ventured into moscow in 1962. In its first years in office, the PAP government tried to associate itself as much as possible with the policies of the afro-asian countries such as anti-colonialism and non-alignment. Singapore expressed support in 1961-2 for the two african nationalist and liberation movements - in the belgian congo and algeria. PM Lee kuan yew also visited various non-aligned countries and established personal contacts with third world leaders including nehru, nasser, tito, ne win and sihanouk. Front page headline of straits times on 9august1965 "new look foreign policy?" and a report on a discussion of the need to broaden the base of malaysia's international contacts.
- reference
- https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3017222/history-singapore-over-700-years-shows-city-states-ups-and Seven Hundred Years: A History of Singapore, by Kwa Chong Guan, Derek Heng, Peter Borschberg and Tan Tai Yong. Published by Marshall Cavendish Even as Singapore marks 200 years since Englishman Stamford Raffles set up an East India Company factory there, the city state is promoting another date. In 1299, according to the Malay Annals, a Srivijayan prince named Sri Tri Buana arrived at the island then known as Temasekand founded Singapura.
EAEU
- Singapore plans to negotiate a free trade agreement (FTA) with the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong toldTASS in an interview on May 16. Bilateral trade between Singapore and Russia has quadrupled in the last ten years, but is below potential, Lee told the news agency. “So, we are planning to negotiate an FTA with EAEU and we hope that with the FTA we will be able to take it another step forward,” he said.
USA
- https://www.ft.com/content/bcee463e-9674-11e6-a1dc-bdf38d484582 Failure to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal would be a “major setback” for the standing of the US in Asia, Singapore’s deputy leader has said, underlining concerns in the region that America's Pacific pivot is in trouble.
- https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3030111/china-will-be-wary-us-singapore-deal-military-bases The renewal of a three-decade old pact between the United States and Singapore
that grants US forces access to the Lion City’s naval and air bases signals that Washington views the city state as a vital part of its Asia strategy for a long time to come, analysts have said. One maritime observer said the renewal of the 1990 agreement – which was all but a formality – was likely to be viewed by China with some trepidation, as it comes amid US efforts to enhance its forward presence in the Asia-Pacific. Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and US President
Donald Trump late on Monday signed the amendment to the original 1990 Memorandum of Understanding Regarding Use of Facilities in Singapore. Under the renewed agreement, the US will have access to Singapore’s naval and air base facilities until 2035. The first renewal of the pact in 2005 granted the US access to the facilities until 2020.
- Singapore’s new defence pact with the United States– allowing it to set up a fighter jet training detachment in Guam– is a nod to deepening military ties between the countries, experts said, adding that it was the city state’s way of assuring Washington of its loyalty despite boosting cooperation with Beijing.Singapore has “always been a close friend” of the US, said Faizal Abdul Rahman, a research fellow at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, citing its contribution to US-led operations in Afghanistan and the global coalition against the Islamic State (Isis) militant group.https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3041301/singapore-gets-fighter-jet-unit-guam-us-facing-china-threat
UK
- Tanglin Club, one of Singapore's most prestigious and prominent social clubs, was founded in 1865 to cater to the social and recreational needs of locally based British officials and expatriates. That year, an interim committee was formed, and it comprised Thomas Dunman (President), Herbert Buchanan (Vice-President), Lancelot C. Masfen, Jos. M. Webster, William Mulholland, Walter Oldham, Edwin A. G. C. Cooke and John R. Forrester. Although race was not stipulated as a criterion for membership, only Europeans were admitted. Club members however, were mainly British. On 26 June 1866, Tanglin Club purchased a property in the Claymore Estate for $600. In the same year, the construction of a clubhouse with bowling alleys, billiard rooms, stables, and a dance floor began.
- first state visit to UK, ties between UK and Singapore http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/singapore-uk-ties-new/1435366.html?cid=FBSG Having stayed two nights at Buckingham Palace, President Tan said besides the high level of service, Singapore can also learn from Britain's strong history and culture. "It's been a wonderful experience for my wife and me to have this opportunity. We will always remember it - how the state banquet was a special experience in the way in which it was carried out. "Of course you've got special touches, which I don't think we can emulate, having the pipers at the end of the state dinner to signal the end, maybe we can get our Singapore pipers to do something like that and at the Guildhall, of course, they've got the competing trumpets as well. These are something, which grow out of their history. "Staying at the palace every morning, at 9am, there'll be a piper marching around, signalling, waking us all up. I hope the Queen keeps on this tradition. These are small things, but they reflect a society which has long historical roots, which keeps up old links. But for us in Singapore it is very important for us as we progress ahead, we develop further, to continue to remember our roots, where we came from, what is important to us, the relationships, our unique multi-racial society.
- At the southern tip of mainland Singapore is a deep harbour first noticed by Sir William Farquhar in 1819. Later referred to simply as New Harbour, major development of the area started in the 1850s when the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) established operations there. In 1900, the strategically important harbour was renamed Keppel Harbour in honour of Admiral Henry Keppel, a British naval officer with strong ties to Singapore. The Port of Singapore Authority’s Keppel Terminal began operations next to the harbour in 1991 and has since become one of the world’s busiest container terminals.In the early 1970s, a saucer-shaped revolving restaurant was constructed atop the Prima Floor Mills Building (centre) situated along Keppel Road. The restaurant, eventually known as Prima Tower Revolving Restaurant, only opened in the late 1970s due to construction delays. It was then one of only three such revolving restaurants in Singapore, the others being found at Mandarin Hotel and Change Alley Aerial Plaza respectively. https://www.roots.sg/learn/collections/listing/1188295
- https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-prima-tower-revolving-restaurant-closes-43-years-13023784
africa
- scmp 17nov19 "enterprising africa" singapore's small but growing african community
india
- ceca
- Internet users also soon latched on to the topic of the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA), a free-trade deal signed in 2005 between India and Singapore . They claimed the deal gave Indian nationals a free pass to work in the Lion City, as online vigilantes doxxed the man and called on his employer to axe him, claiming his qualifications had been falsified. Days after the video went viral, hundreds of demonstrators turned up at a rally protesting against CECA and Singapore’s population growth. This public anger was reminiscent of that seen in 2013 when the government issued a projection that Singapore’s population could hit 6.9 million by 2030. The number currently stands at 5.7 million, roughly 1.7 million of whom are foreigners.https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3039999/indian-community-chinese-filipinos-singapore-feels-strain
australia
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/14/just-a-matter-of-when-the-20bn-plan-to-power-singapore-with-australian-solar Known as Sun Cable, it is promised to be the world’s largest solar farm. If developed as planned, a 10-gigawatt-capacity array of panels will be spread across 15,000 hectares and be backed by battery storage to ensure it can supply power around the clock. Overhead transmission lines will send electricity to Darwin and plug into the NT grid. But the bulk would be exported via a high-voltage direct-current submarine cable snaking through the Indonesian archipelago to Singapore. The developers say it will be able to provide one-fifth of the island city-state’s electricity needs, replacing its increasingly expensive gas-fired power.
- https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3091790/could-us14-billion-australian-solar-farm-provide-fifth The finer details of who will buy the power on the Singapore end have not been confirmed, but iSwitch, one of Singapore’s top electricity retailers and the country’s largest green retailer, has shown a keen interest.
japan
- The Japanese occupation of Singapore in World War II took place from 1942 to 1945, following the fall of the British colony on 15 February 1942. Military forces of the Empire of Japan occupied it after defeating the combined British, Indian, Australian, and Malayan garrison in the Battle of Singapore. The occupation was to become a major turning point in the histories of several nations, including those of Japan, Britain, and the then-colonial state of Singapore. Singapore was renamed Syonan-to (昭南島 Shōnan-tō?), meaning "Light of the South".
- 1942年2月15日，駐守新加坡的英軍向日本帝國軍隊正式投降，當日英日雙方就新加坡管治權進行交接的地點，就在新加坡福特車廠。2006年，新加坡政府將車廠定為國家歷史文物，命名為「舊福特車廠資鑒館」，廠中設有歷史展館，展示新加坡在第二次世界大戰前後的第一手資料。去年新加坡政府對展館封閉修繕，以待今年週年紀念時重新開幕，展館重開時被改名，新名稱是「昭南展覽館」——「昭南」，正是日據時期對新加坡的命名，正如當時日本稱中國「支那」，菲律賓「比島」，庫爾島「樺太」等。「昭南」這名字迅速引發新加坡強烈爭議，特別是上一代華人反應最大，指名字代表痛苦的歷史記憶，會傷害新加坡人民感情。數日後，新加坡政府將展館名稱再改，成為「日據時期：戰爭與遺跡」展館。https://simonshen.blog/2017/04/22/新加坡的「昭南情結」：二戰博物館命名風波/
north korea
- relationship under sanction hkej 20jun18 shum article
China
- ties
- Sino-Singapore cooperation will move westward into China's inland provinces with lower labor and land costs, a move signaling that the two countries are pushing for deepened exchanges. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2014apec/2014-11/10/content_18893044.htm
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2015-07/04/content_21179332.htm China and Singapore signed three cooperation agreements in Beijing on Friday asleaders of the two nations pledged to elevate their 25-year-old diplomaticrelationship to a higher level. They also promised their support for establishing a government-to-governmentproject in the less-developed western region of China, a follow-up to the twocountries' earlier flagship joint projects in Tianjin and in Suzhou, Jiangsu province.
- 新加坡對中國充滿戒心，雖然兩國於二○○八年就已經簽署並落實自由貿易協定，但在中國與大多數東盟國家都建立了全面戰略夥伴關係的情況下，直到去年 中國國家主席習近平訪問新加坡時，才將兩國關係確定為與時俱進的全方位合作夥伴關係，依然沒有提升到戰略層次，充分反映新加坡對發展與中國關係的保守態 度。習近平在新加坡發表演講時強調與東盟要建立命運共同體，顯示出中國的誠意和善意，但並沒有得到新加坡的正面和積極回應。在北京看來，新加坡可以有自己 獨特外交路線的權力，但如果它刻意為難中國，那就不得不讓中方提高警惕。正是在這種大背景之下，中方 開始重新思考與定位和新加坡的關係，並利用各種手段敲打。比如，加快發展馬來西亞的巴生港以及開挖泰國的克拉地峽運河，削弱新加坡作為國際航運中心的功能 和地位。而這次新加坡裝甲車在香港被扣，北京無非是藉此向新加坡表明，在對華問題上不要太自以為是，中國有的是牌，隨便打哪一張，新加坡都是承受不了的。 http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20161128/00182_001.html
- https://www.ft.com/content/5459aaba-b54f-11e6-ba85-95d1533d9a62 China has made an official protest to Singapore over its military ties with Taiwan after nine Singaporean military vehicles were seized in Hong Kong, in a sign of escalating tensions as the city-state draws closer to Washington.
- leaders visit
- http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2063126/china-singapore-hold-first-high-level-talks-armoured
- http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2112051/trade-trains-china-and-singapore-boost-their-economic On Tuesday, when Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong began a three-day trip to China, the two countries signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to help businesses resolve disputes that may arise under Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “Belt and Road Initiative”. Five key areas for developing trade and economic ties include upgranding FTA.
- Li made the remark when meeting with visiting Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Beijing on Sunday.The two leaders witnessed the signing of two documents on third market cooperation and culture heritage protection.http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201804/09/WS5aca9a52a3105cdcf6516c80.html
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2017-02/28/content_28370970.htm China and Singapore agreed on Monday to focus their bilateral relationship on pragmatic cooperation and to explore potential in infrastructure, information technology and finance under the Belt and Road Initiative. The consensus was reached when Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli and his Singaporean counterpart, Teo Chee Hean, co-chaired a series of meetings in Beijing on Monday, including the 13th meeting of the China-Singapore Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation.
- 國家主席習近平昨日開始對新加坡進行國事訪問。據新華社報道，習近平在新加坡總統府會見新加坡總統陳慶炎。兩國元首一致同意將中新關係定位為與時俱進的全方位合作夥伴關係，並啟動中新自由貿易協定升級談判。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2015/11/07/a04-1107.pdf
- https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2171833/china-and-singapore-wrap-talks-upgrade-free-trade-agreement China and Singapore have concluded talks to upgrade their free-trade deal, bringing to an end three years of negotiations.The agreement was reached during a meeting between Chinese Vice-Commerce Minister Fu Ziying and Singaporean Minister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing on the sidelines of the China International Import Expo in Shanghai, the Chinese commerce ministry said in a statement late on Monday. Talks to upgrade the free-trade agreement, which took effect in January 2009, started after Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Singapore in November 2015.
- Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation (JCBC) - the highest-level forum between China and Singapore
- 中國商務部昨宣布即日起提升與新加坡的（自由貿易協定），另《升級議定書》會在明年一月一日生效，其中升級了原協定中的原產地規則、貿易救濟、投資、服務貿易、經濟合作，以及海關程序與貿易便利化六個領域，新增電子商務、競爭政策和環境三個領域。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191017/00178_023.html
- The consultations, started in 1996, are a platform for the two foreign ministries to discuss bilateral cooperation, Asean-China cooperation, and exchange views on key regional and global developments.
- 根據新加坡外交部發布文告，副總理兼經濟政策統籌部長及財政部長王瑞杰昨日與中國副總理韓正通電話，兩人重申加強合作對抗新冠疫情的重要性，並同意拓展在公共衞生領域的合作，包括診斷、疫苗和治療方法的研發，這將是在新中雙邊合作聯合委員會(JCBC)框架下的新合作領域。此外，杜克－新加坡國立大學醫學院新興傳染病項目副主任黃英勇日前表示，由杜克－新加坡國立大學醫學院與一家美國醫藥公司合作研發的新加坡首個候選新冠疫苗LUNAR-COV19，已獲新加坡衞生科學局批准展開臨床試驗，「在極樂觀的情況下」，新加坡首個新冠疫苗最快將於明年7月面世。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2020/08/01/b01-0801.pdf
- government cooperation
- 中國與新加坡第三個政府間合作項目昨日在重慶實質啟動。中新（重慶）戰略性互聯互通示範項目管理委員會當天成立，首批12個總金額65.6億美元（約合港幣509億元）的合作項目簽約，聯合實施委員會第一次會議同時召開。中國是新加坡最大的貿易夥伴，新加坡是中國重要投資來源國。從蘇州工業園，到天津生態城，再到以重慶為運營中心的中新（重慶）戰略性互聯互通示範項目，中新兩國政府間合作已跨越20載，將合作從工業、生態，推向服務業、物流和互聯互通等領域。2015年11月，中國國家主席習近平訪問新加坡，中新雙方同意推進第三個政府間合作項目-以重慶為運營中心的中新（重慶）戰略性互聯互通示範項目，以金融服務、航空、交通物流和信息通信技術為重點合作領域。據了解，重慶成立中新（重慶）戰略性互聯互通示範項目管理委員會，下設金融服務、航空產業、交通物流和信息通信四個專委會，同時成立管理局。重慶市長黃奇帆說，中新（重慶）戰略性互聯互通示範項目契合「一帶一路」戰略思想，將成為重慶經濟發展的新增長點，促進重慶內陸開放高地建設，帶動中西部地區開放發展。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2016/01/09/a13-0109.pdf
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20161202/00184_011.html 新加坡強調一向遵守「一個中國」原則，不過也不能遺忘對其建立武裝部隊有功的台灣老友。星台之間在陳水扁執政時期曾有風雨，但仍有堅實的友誼基礎。北京曾建議「星光計劃」搬到海南島舉行，但因為美國的壓力，新加坡並沒有同意，奉行大國平衡政策是其國防與外交政策的核心。因此，今次裝甲車被扣事件，雖然北京發難，但新加坡在其外交政策和與美國深厚堅實關係之下，並不會向北京屈服，改變其在台軍演的「星光計劃」。
- http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2112622/china-singapore-reaffirm-military-ties-deal-anythingChina and Singapore have reaffirmed a commitment made almost three years ago to boost military cooperation in a move that observers said was a sign of improving trust between the two nations albeit little more than symbolic.
- In May, the defence chiefs of the Lion City and China agreed to a “substantial programme” to deepen military ties. The two countries will hold a second joint naval drill next year, after holding a similar exercise in 2015. Lee Kuan Yew, the late Singaporean independence leader and father of the current prime minister, once said he had no objections to both the US and China one day having logistics bases in his country.https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3030111/china-will-be-wary-us-singapore-deal-military-bases
- The fourth round of negotiations on upgrading free trade zone (FTZ) cooperation between China and Singapore will be held from Wednesday to Thursday in Singapore, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) said on September 21. The two countries held the third round of negotiations in June in Beijing.http://www.ecns.cn/business/2017/10-09/276302.shtml
- 重慶市中新示範項目管理局近日與中國─東盟中心簽署合作備忘錄，約定建立更深層次的戰略合作關係，共同推動中星（重慶）戰略性互聯互通示範項目（簡稱中星互聯互通項目）與更多東盟國家攜手發展。中國─東盟中心是政府間國際組織，旨在促進中國和東盟在貿易、投資、旅遊、教育和文化領域的合作。根據合作備忘錄，雙方將依託中星互聯互通項目及「陸海新通道」建設，共同推進重慶市及有關省區與東盟國家在貿易、投資、信息媒體、教育、文化、旅遊等領域的交流與務實合作。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20190527/PDF/a9_screen.pdf
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2016-06/01/content_25563784.htm Intellectual property service providers in Singapore will have easier access togrowing opportunities in China, thanks to a newly opened China representativeoffice of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. Located in the Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City in Guangdong province,a cooperative project for innovative companies and institutions, the office isdesigned to help the area become a model zone for IP cooperation between Chinaand Singapore, officials from the two countries said at the opening ceremony onMay 24. As the first representative office of IPOS outside Singapore, the China office isexpected to "help an increasing number of Singapore's IP service providers reachout to the increasing number of Chinese innovative enterprises, especiallytechnology companies seeking to expand overseas", according to the IPOSwebsite. It also aims to provide IP services to those companies in their internationalbusiness and introduce Singaporean IP service providers to China.
- SIAC Signs Memorandum of Understanding with the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration hkcd 25aug18
- https://www.siac.org.sg The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Beijing Arbitration Commission/ Beijing International Arbitration Center (BAC/BIAC) to promote international arbitration as a preferred method of dispute resolution for resolving international disputes. The MOU was signed on 15 October 2019 at the 2019 Singapore Summit on Commercial Dispute Resolution in China, by Ms Lim Seok Hui, Chief Executive Officer of SIAC, and Dr. Fuyong Chen, Deputy Secretary-General of BAC/BIAC. The signing was witnessed by Mr Zhang Xumin, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim of the Chinese Embassy in Singapore and Ms Gloria Lim, Director, Legal Industry Division, Ministry of Law. Under the MOU, SIAC and BAC/BIAC will work together to jointly promote international arbitration to serve the needs of businesses. SIAC and BAC/BIAC will co-organise conferences, seminars and workshops on international arbitration in China and Singapore, and will invite key members of their local arbitration community to attend and participate in major events organised by SIAC in Beijing or by BAC/BIAC in Singapore.
- China-Singapore Jilin Food Zone (http://www.jlfz.gov.cn/Main/Index.asp)
- 據中新社報道，中新膜科技產業合作戰略研討會昨日在廈門舉行，兩國專家學者共同研討中新膜技術領域的深度合作。新加坡中國科學技術交流促進協會常務副會長、廈門大學水科技與政策研究中心首席科學家藍偉光，受邀在研討會上作主旨演講，提出合作建設中新廈門膜科技園的設想。他認為，新加坡在打造以膜技術為核心的環境與水產業方面積累的經驗可為廈門提供樣本。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2019/04/08/a18-0408.pdf
- capital flow
- http://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2058021/singapore-casinos-risk-beijing-crackdown-over-capital-flight
- rmb
- http://www.straitstimes.com/news/asia/east-asia/story/singapore-and-china-launch-direct-currency-trading-oct-28-20141027
- http://www.reuters.com/article/us-wealth-summit-bankofsingapore-idUSKCN0Z20HZ The private banking unit of Singapore's second-biggest lender OCBC is exploring launching an onshore presence in China either with a domestic partner or on its own, its CEO told the Reuters Global Wealth Management Summit on Thursday. Regional and global banks have been cautious about setting up a local private banking and wealth management presence in China due to regulatory restrictions and the nation's relatively less developed capital market. But as the world's second-biggest economy continues to open up, the banks are reassessing their plans.
- https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3038413/jack-mas-ant-financial-actively-looking-virtual-bank Billionaire Jack Ma’s Ant Financial Services Group said it may apply for a virtual banking licence in Singapore, a move that would add a heavyweight contender to the race.“We are actively looking into this opportunity,” Hangzhou, China-based Ant Financial said in an emailed response to questions from Bloomberg News.The Monetary Authority of Singapore is offering as many as five digital banking permits to non-banks in a bid to open up the industry to new competitors.A successful entry by Ant Financial would pit China’s largest online financial company against traditional incumbents DBS Group Holdings and Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp in the growing market for digital banking in Southeast Asia.
- 內地傳媒引述新加坡 金融管理局表示，正與中證監就加強資本市場的互聯互 通，以及人民銀行債券的合作機制進行討論，若細節達 成一致，將披露更多資訊。新加坡金管局日前推出一系 列新舉措，以促進中國和新加坡金融機構在對方市場的 擴張。該局和人行將建立合作機制，兩國指定的銀行能 在中國債市，為區域和全球投資者提供託管和交易服 務。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2019/10/25/b01-1025.pdf
- commodities
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20151107/PDF/a15_screen.pdf 中國銀行（03988）在新加坡設立全球能源大宗商品業務中心，以及全球大宗商品回購中心，協助企業把握全球大宗商品市場發展所帶來的機遇。 中行昨日亦分別與新加坡國際企業發展局、新加坡交易所簽署諒解備忘錄及合作協議。根據協議內容，中國銀行與新加坡國際企業發展局將進一步深化合作，協助新加坡企業推進國際化進程，發展新加坡大宗商品交易和金融業；中國銀行與新加坡交易所將繼續加強合作，推動人民幣大宗商品金融產品持續創新，使企業得以利用更多元化的金融服務和工具。
- 由大连商品交易所创办人朱玉辰及上海浑沌董事长葛卫东合资，新成立的衍生品交易所Apex，计划进军新加坡期货市场。新加坡交易所行政总裁罗文才接受外媒访问时表示，有意开放结算系统予Apex，让其可于新加坡进行期货交易。新交所放行Apex，将进一步增加当地的中国衍生品交易。罗文才表示，Apex的交易涉及中国市场，此将反映新加坡可成为中国的价格发现中心，亦有助突显新加坡投资者的价值主张。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170502/PDF/a3_screen.pdf
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20181107/PDF/a6_screen.pdf 招商油貿與中石化燃料油新加坡簽訂採購合同
- rubber
- http://www.reuters.com/article/us-hac-m-a-sinochem-intl-idUSKCN0WU04D
A unit of Chinese oil and chemicals conglomerate Sinochem Group offered to buy a majority stake in Singapore's Halcyon Agri Corp in a deal that will combine their rubber assets and create the world's largest natural rubber supply chain manager. Sinochem International Corp said late Sunday that it has offered to acquire a 30.07 percent stake in Halcyon Agri for S$0.75 a share. The all-cash deal will be worth at least S$240 million ($175 million). Sinochem International will also make a mandatory general offer at the same price to all Halcyon shareholders. Subsequently, Halcyon will make an offer for Singapore-based natural rubber producer GMG Global Ltd - in which Sinochem International has a 51 percent stake - at an exchange ratio of 0.9333 Halcyon share for each GMG Global share. Halcyon Agri will also buy Sinochem's natural rubber processing assets in China and Malaysia and trading businesses, the companies said in a joint statement on Monday. After the transactions are complete, Sinochem will become the majority shareholder of Halcyon Agri, which will be the holding company of the expanded group. The deals are expected to be completed by the end of the third quarter of 2016.
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2016-08/22/content_26551267.htm A six-month trial of electric bus K9 begins; success could mean opportunities in theregion. China's major electric vehicle or EV producer BYD Co Ltd is targeting Singapore tosell buses and taxis. It is relying on its time-tested overseas expansion strategy forthe foray. Promotion of electric vehicles for local public transport systems, and thenlocalization involving establishment of research and development centers orassembly lines - they constitute BYD's strategy to enter a foreign market.
- Suzhou Industrial Park www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2014-11/10/content_18892137.htm
- project launched in 1994 china daily 26feb19
- business park
- 中國機械設備工程股份有限公司（以下簡稱「中設」）與新加坡騰飛集團9日宣佈簽訂合資公司協議，雙方將在全亞洲範圍內就產業及商務園區的投資開發進行戰略合作。據新華社報道，中設在當天發表的公告中表示，作為亞洲領先的商務空間及產業園區解決方案提供商，騰飛集團此次與中設將在中國「一帶一路」發展規劃的倡議下，以合資公司為依託，共同探討在亞洲重點國家的合作發展機會，並建立產業及商務園區的投資合作框架。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2015/11/10/a20-1110.pdf
- 記者5日從交通運輸部獲悉，中國當日與新加坡簽署船舶電子證書諒解備忘錄，以促進兩國登記船舶使用電子證書，加強雙方在船舶電子證書領域合作。備忘錄全稱為《中國與新加坡關於推廣、接受和使用電子證書的諒解備忘錄》。根據這一備忘錄，中星兩國海事部門同意在電子證書的簽發、使用和接受方面進行合作，共同探討如何實現通過兩國「電子證書」數據交換，促進在船舶通關作業和港口國監督檢查過程中應用電子證書。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20190906/PDF/a9_screen.pdf
- container terminal
- The joint project terminal first began operations in 2003 with PSA International, the predecessor to Port of Singapore Authority. The majority of containers at COSCO-PSA Terminal originate from or are destined for Asia and Europe, which are the main regions involved in the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201808/14/WS5b72245ba310add14f3858c6.html
- scmp 21apr19 "chinese firms building singapore"
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/regional/2016-12/16/content_27689395.htm The Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City is expected to become a new model zone for Guangdong province's and even the entire country's industrial transformation and upgrade in the years to come.
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2016-12/30/content_27818556.htm The SSGKC signed a memorandum of understanding with Siemens China in July to developthe Smart Eco Technology Demonstration Center, the company's first Asia-Pacific urbansustainability hub. The move was intended to support the SSGKC's smart and eco-cityinitiatives. The 7,000-square-meter center, scheduled to be completed in 2020, will enable global smartand ecological solution providers to exchange ideas on new technologies in sectors such asintegrated building control systems, intelligent transportation, renewable energy and greentechnologies.
- https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3023450/baidu-expands-cloud-services-singapore-catch-rivals-alibaba-tencent Internet search giant Baidu has launched cloud computing services in Singapore, as the company moves to catch up with Chinese rivals Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings in Southeast Asia’s biggest information technology market.
- 兰渝专列
- 中星互联互通项目兰渝专列29日在重庆首发，装载长安汽车、北汽银翔等品牌的290台商品车，从重庆发往甘肃兰州。标誌着中星互联互通项目南向通道的主干通道与网络通道贯通衔接。中星（重庆）战略性互联互通示范项目是中国和新加坡在中国西部地区建设的第三个政府间合作项目，以重庆市作为运营中心。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170930/PDF/a19_screen.pdf
- Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology (JCET), China's largest semiconductor chip tester, on Thursday (Nov 6) said it made a non-binding proposal to acquire Singapore-listed STATS ChipPAC, whose largest shareholder is a unit of Temasek Holdings. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/chinese-firm-in-talks-to/1457466.html, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5f79039a-6589-11e4-aba7-00144feabdc0.html
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2015-12/21/content_22759984.htm The June merger that created the Ascendas-Singbridge group is dedicated to integrating thestrengths and cultures of two Singapore-based urban realty companies, so as to double thecombined entity's size in the next five years. It is a challenge that excites the group's CEO, Miguel Ko. "Given our asset management inChina, we can hopefully exceed that (goal)." The group specializes in urbanization projects spanning townships, mixed-use developmentsand business and industrial parks in 29 cities in Asia, including several in China. Earlier this year, Singapore's State-owned Temasek Holdings and private sector JTC Corpagreed to merge four of their subsidiaries - Ascendas, Jurong International Holdings, SingbridgeGroup and Surbana International Consultants - into two joint ventures that could bid for and bagbigger projects.
- http://www.scmp.com/property/hong-kong-china/article/1929301/singapore-developer-capitaland-takes-long-term-view-china
- http://www.glprop.com/press-releases/444-glp-establishes-long-term-strategic-partnership-with-china-international-marine-containers.html GLP, the leading global provider of modern logistics facilities, has signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with China International Marine Containers (Group) Co., Ltd. (“CIMC”), a leading China-domiciled company specializing in providing modern transportation equipment and services. Under the strategic partnership, GLP and CIMC will work together to develop integrated logistics facilities and solutions. GLP may also assist CIMC in planning, re-developing and managing their existing logistics facilities. Victor Mok, Co-President of GLP China, said: “CIMC is an important addition to GLP’s collaborative platforms in logistics eco-system and we are pleased to establish this strategic partnership. Over the past few years, we have built up an invaluable network of strategic partners with whom we can together provide a comprehensive scope of services and solutions to meet the needs of our customers. We endeavor to provide an even wider spectrum of services to our customers to help them improve their supply chain efficiency and serve the market more competitively.” Boliang Mai, CEO and President of CIMC, said: “We are delighted to forge this long-term partnership with GLP. CIMC and GLP share a common commitment to advance the logistics and distribution infrastructure system in China. With our combined strengths and resources, we are confident that we can provide solutions that enhance efficiency and ultimately deliver greater value to all stakeholders.” Since 2014, GLP has established strategic partnerships with a number of leading China state-owned companies including Bank of China, China Development Bank Capital, China Materials Storage and Transportation Development Company (“CMSTD”), COFCO, Guangdong Holdings, Jinbei Automotive and Sinotrans. These strategic partnerships support GLP in expanding its customer base and strengthening its land sourcing capabilities.
- 19世紀中葉，是這黃金景色讓一個在東美村賣田螺為生的年輕人曾振源，帶着改善家人生活的理想，勇敢地從這條河搭上去南洋的輪船， 到了新加坡嗎？精明能幹的曾振源秉承着閩南人的吃苦耐勞和拚搏精神，從謀生到創業，十幾年後，商務涉及貿易、航運和典當等行業，先把總公司開設在新加坡， 後來也在廈門、廣州開分行，並且還將事業拓展到東南亞各個國家，包括菲律賓、印尼、泰國、 越南、緬甸等。最鼎盛時期，他和兒子組建了「豐源航務局」，擁有29艘輪船，是新加坡首屈一指的航運大亨。幾天來的雨，讓本來不平坦的小路，生出窟窿和泥濘，周邊多為殘舊鄉下民居，小路還有更小的路，折折轉轉，突然看見2013年中國第八批省級 文物保護單位公佈時描述的「曾家番仔樓」︰「清光緒二十九年（1903年）至清宣統二年（1910年）建，坐南朝北，中西結合建築風格，石磚木混合結構， 平面呈『 凹』字形，以祖廳為中軸線，對稱排列，前為閩南風格古厝，中為哥特式樓房，後為紅磚騎樓，計13棟建築物99間房間，建築面積2,627平方米。」http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2017/03/28/a34-0328.pdf
- 新加坡一間液化石油氣廠上周五發生大火，造成一死兩傷。中國駐新加坡大使館上周六證實，死傷者均為中國籍員工，其中一名傷者已於當日出院。目前起火原因仍在調查中。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190624/00178_004.html
- 陳孟哲先生是新加坡青年書局的創辦人。新加坡「青年書局」四個字是上世紀三十年代由郁達夫題的匾。東南亞有不少老一輩華人，出於對華文文化薪火的承傳的執着和堅持，不惜用自己的身家財產資助華文文化在所在地區的發展http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2020/08/19/b04-0819.pdf
- http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2015/12/09/a22-1209.pdf 新加坡 3 所大學 7 日分別與中國清華大學、北京大學 及浙江大學簽署了諒解備忘錄，進一步加強在研究和人員交流方面的合作，以紀念中新 建交 25 周年。信和集團主席黃志祥家族設立的黃廷方慈善基金，為簽署諒解備忘錄的 6 所大學提供 1.5 億元人民幣的資助。每對簽署諒解備忘錄的大學將得到 5,000 萬人民幣的 資金支持。
- Nanyang polytech 中國項目辦
- chinese heritage
- Provide training to civil servants 亞洲週刊23jun13 issue
- http://chc.ntu.edu.sg Founded in 1995, the Chinese Heritage Centre (CHC) aims to advance knowledge and understanding of the ethnic Chinese communities in different parts of the world. Established as a non-profit organisation, the CHC's work is guided by an international Board of Governors. In 2011, the CHC has been reconstituted as an autonomous institute of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), depending almost entirely on fundraising from private donors and government 1:1 matching grants. The CHC serves as a research centre, a museum, and a library. It is housed in the historic Administration Building of the former Nanyang University, which itself is a relic of the landmark establishment of the first and only Chinese-medium university outside China, founded by the Chinese overseas. It was gazetted as a National Monument on 18 December 1999.
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170110/PDF/b17_screen.pdf晚晴園是孫中山先生與中國
、南洋革命志士，在海外策劃反清革命之地，後闢建為孫中山南洋紀念館 ，為新加坡國家古蹟，由國家文物局管理。時任內閣資政李光耀在2001年孫中山誕辰日為該館揭幕，可見新加坡政府對晚晴園歷史價值的肯定。晚晴園與孫中山有何關係？原來在辛亥革命前後，孫中山九次踏足新加坡，其中四次住宿晚晴園，因此晚晴園是孫中山在獅城的故居，上世紀 60年代便以「孫逸仙故居」為館名 。1905年6月，孫中山從歐洲前往日本，途經新加坡時與當地華人張永福(added by me - 新加坡同盟會副會長[poon hon tong book on interview with ma ying gou])和陳楚楠(added by me - 新加坡同盟會會長[poon hon tong book on interview with ma ying gou])會晤，餐敘後參觀了張永福的別墅晚晴園，從此建立孫中山與南洋志士的情誼。該年底 ，孫中山從日本返回歐洲時再次途經新加坡
，張永福得到母親同意，把其居所晚晴園供給孫中山，作為他在獅城的據點 - 华裔馆”，内设中华语言文化中心、南洋大学图片展、“何谓华人”图片展等，论者谓这象徵了华文从过去的整个校园退守到现在的一座建筑内。不远处的Innovation Centre则是前南大理学院大楼。 两名南洋大学中人与香港关系密切，值得点滴一二。南洋大学第二任校长是黄丽松（1969-1972年在位），他在1972年获邀出任香港大学第九任校长，成为该校首名华人校长，也是首名掌校的港大校友。另一名是南洋大学文学院院长兼教育系主任严元章，曾服务马来亚（当时不叫马来西亚）和新加坡教育界，人称“新世孔子”。1965年当局要求南大改制，严氏不满贬抑华文教育，并停办培养华文师资的教育系，愤而辞职，前往香港中文大学教育学院任教，定居香港。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170228/PDF/b17_screen.pdf
- 據英國獨立報報道 ： 加 拿 大 一 名 華 裔 男 子 早 前 在 Facebook發文，稱其在新加坡南洋理 工大學欲報讀中文課程，但因其華裔 身份遭學校拒絕，引發網絡關於種族 歧視的討論。學校發表聲明稱，已修 改報讀規則。 Derek Leung是在加拿大出生長 大的華裔機械工程師，2015年到南洋 理工大學交流。因從小沒有機會學習 中文，故想修讀中文課程學習普通話 ，但遭教務處拒絕；隨後他向課程協 調員提出上訴亦被拒。據學校回覆的 郵件顯示，原因是Derek為華裔。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20200119/PDF/a19_screen.pdf
- spy
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170805/00180_013.html 新加坡國立大學任教的美籍華人教授，被指控利用職位之便，秘密為另一個國家工作，損害新加坡的利益。新加坡內政部周五宣布，取消他的永久居留權，並永久禁止他及太太楊秀萍入境，但未有透露他為哪個國家服務。內政部指，黃靖結識當地知名人士後，聲稱可向他們提供某個國家的「特權資訊」，藉此影響他們的意見有利於該國。當局表示，他向該大學一名高級職員提供資訊後，對方轉交給負責外交政策的政府官員，明顯是想藉此令新加坡改變外交政策，但政府最終拒絕聽從。當局又指黃靖同時聘請其他人替他做事，但沒透露詳情。美國駐新加坡大使館拒絕評論事件。據悉，黃靖早年畢業於中國四川大學，擁有中國復旦大學歷史學碩士和美國哈佛大學政治學博士學位。他自二○○八年開始在新加坡當學者，被驅逐出境前在新加坡國立大學李光耀公共政策學院，以特聘講座教授的身份任教中美關係。
- event
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2016-01/19/content_23142526.htm About 2,700 lanterns were lit on Saturday along streets of Singapore's Chinatown,kicking off celebrations for the Year of the Monkey in the heritage district. The ceremony was held at an outdoor venue in the middle of New Bridge Road andEu Tong Sen Street. President Tony Tan Keng Yam lit a peach lantern on stage. After the official launch, artists from leading local, Chinese and Malaysian troupesperformed in a reconstruction of the famed Chinese folktale Journey to the West.Daring displays of acrobatics were accompanied by entertaining musicalperformances and LED light displays.
Malaysia
- border
- http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2018/12/07/a22-1207.pdf馬來西亞政府10月宣佈，擴大柔佛州新山港口海上管轄範圍，較以往更接近新加坡水域，近日更多次派船隻到擴大後的海域巡邏，引發新加坡不滿。新加坡外長維文前日致電馬來西亞外長賽夫丁，敦促對方停止入侵新加坡領海，運輸部長許文遠昨日更宣佈，擴大新加坡港口海域範圍，大馬則重申沒有侵犯新加坡領海。新加坡與馬來西亞僅以柔佛海峽相隔。大馬在1979年自行劃分海域界線，但新加坡拒絕承認，雙方1995年達成劃界協議，但不包括新加坡西部的大士港口區一帶。新加坡和大馬分別於1997年和1999年，為大士與柔佛港口訂立海上界線，彼此互不重疊。
- water
- The State of Johore and the City Council of Singapore signed two long-term Water Agreements. The first Water Agreement was signed in 1961 and expired in August 2011. Under this Agreement, Singapore was entitled to draw an unrestricted quantity of raw water from the Tebrau and Scudai Rivers. In return, the agreement stipulated that Singapore would provide Johor with treated water amounting to 12% of the water that we had imported. When the 1961 Water Agreement expired on 31 August 2011, Singapore handed the Johor State government the Gunong Pulai and Scudai waterworks as well as the pump houses at Pontian and Tebrau which we had been operating and maintaining at our own cost. These facilities were handed to them free of charge and in good working order. The second Water Agreement was signed in 1962 and will expire in 2061. It entitles Singapore to draw and use the water from the Johor River up to a maximum of 250 million gallons of raw water per day. In return, we provide Johor with treated water up to 2% of the water we import. PUB draws water from the Johor River and treats the water at the Johor River Waterworks located near Kota Tinggi in Johor. The water we import from Johor is one of our “Four National Taps”.The Water Agreements were guaranteed by the Government of Malaysia in the Separation Agreement signed in 1965 that established Singapore as an independent and sovereign state. The guarantee was also enacted into the Malaysian Constitution by an Act of Parliament. The Malaysian Constitution was annexed to the Separation Agreement. The Separation Agreement was registered with the United Nations.https://www1.mfa.gov.sg/SINGAPORES-FOREIGN-POLICY/Key-Issues/Water-Agreements
- http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/singapore-surprised-by/1927124.html?cid=twtcna Singapore's Ministry of Transport earlier said it was "surprised" that Malaysia's Land Public Transport Commission had said in an interview that it preferred to terminate the upcoming high-speed rail terminus in JB. However, the commission says its CEO was misquoted.
- Both Malaysia and Singapore must "comply fully" with the provisions of the 1962 Water Agreement and the 1965 Separation Agreement, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said on Monday (Jun 25).This was in response to media queries on Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's comments that Malaysia would make a presentation to Singapore on renegotiating the terms of the water supply deal between the two.
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/water-agreement-malaysia-singapore-mahathir-10467906- 馬來西亞與新加坡早於1961至1962年間達成為期100年的供水協定，大馬向新加坡供應柔佛河水，而新加坡處理河水後，將部分食水售回大馬，多年來水價未有更改。但大馬在20年前開始，有聲音批評供水價過低，但回購食水價則太昂貴。馬來西亞總理馬哈蒂爾上台後，積極尋求方法紓緩巨額國債，他前日表示，擬將供應新加坡的食水價格提高10倍以上，認為這可反映成本上漲。新加坡回應稱，百年協定早已塵埃落定，促請對方繼續履行。大馬與新加坡於上世紀60年代達成兩份供水協議，首份已於2011年到期，另一份則於2061年屆滿。根據協定，馬來西亞以每千加侖3仙令吉(約港幣5.7仙)將水售予新加坡，河水經新加坡處理後，部分食水會留予大馬回購，價錢為每千加侖50仙令吉(約0.95港元)。現時新加坡每日從大馬柔佛河收集2.5億加侖河水，柔佛州每日則從新加坡買回500萬加侖食水，佔比例2%。但有媒體指，新加坡實際每日向大馬供應1,600萬加侖食水。馬哈蒂爾最近頻頻批評新加坡的食水供應價高得過分，較大馬國內州份之間的供水價更高，例如柔佛州向馬六甲州的供水價為每千加侖30仙令吉(約0.57港元)，但供給新加坡的水價僅3仙令吉，明顯不合理，故需要提升對新加坡的供水價。他以正進行談判為由，拒絕透露更多細節。大馬外交部稱，根據星馬供水協定，雙方於25年後就協議內容商討。但新加坡外長維文回應指，馬哈蒂爾2002年擔任總理時，未有向新加坡提出談判要求，現在重提是違反協議，重新磋商亦可能令新加坡供給大馬的食水價格波動。他重申，新加坡售予大馬的食水價格其實已獲大幅補貼，低於其處理河水的成本。事實上，星馬百年供水協定在實施25年後，雙方曾經磋商，但時任總理馬哈蒂爾選擇不爭取修訂水價。新加坡上月曾批評，兩國間的水價已於1987年確定，大馬不應出爾反爾。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2018/08/15/a18-0815.pdf
Malaysia's Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) late Friday (Jun 19) said that its CEO was misquoted in an interview pubished by a Malaysian business paper, that it preferred to terminate the upcoming high-speed rail (HSR) terminus at the two nations' existing CIQ (customs, immigration and quarantine) complex in Johor Bahru. In an interview with The Edge Malaysia published on Monday, SPAD's CEO Mohd Nur Ismal Mohd Kamal was asked to elaborate on how the final station on Singapore's end is "an issue". "We would prefer to terminate the line at the existing CIQ. However, Singapore wants it to terminate in Jurong East and understandably so," he said. "Just as we want to develop Bandar Malaysia, they want to use the HSR to drive development in Jurong East. "From our perspective, by terminating it at the CIQ, the entire project will be within our borders and we will have more control of it. This will be closer to Orchard Road than Jurong East," The Edge quoted him as saying. "But of course, we have to weigh Singapore's economic and commercial considerations as well to come to an agreement."
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20161214/00180_019.html 新加坡和馬來西亞周二正式簽署高速鐵路雙邊協定，目標在二○二六年底前，啟用長達三百五十公里的星馬高鐵。屆時乘高鐵往返新加坡和吉隆坡只需時九十分鐘。兩國將於明年就列車、電力和信號系統等作聯合招標。
- https://www.ft.com/content/7563339a-bd27-11e6-8b45-b8b81dd5d080 South Korea is looking to enter the global high-speed rail market dominated by Japan and China, with its sights set on the upcoming deal to link Malaysia with Singapore, as the manufacturing-driven economy seeks new ways to offset stalling growth in its traditional smokestack industries.
- http://macaudailytimes.com.mo/mtr-bid-350-kilometer-malaysia-singapore-project.htmlHong Kong’s MTR Corporation has said it is interested in bidding for a multibillion-dollar rail line project between Malaysia and Singapore, according to the South China Morning Post. According to the media outlet, MTR Corp’s chairman Frederick Ma said that the company would seek to partner with China Railway Corporation, a state-owned giant on the mainland, to bid for the 350-kilometer project which extends from Singapore to the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.
- hkej 19may17 a6 china railway corp has no intention to cooperate with MTR in the bid
- 1mdb
- http://www.reuters.com/article/malaysia-politics-singapore-idUSL3N15G0CP
Singapore said on Monday it has seized a large number of bank accounts in connection with possible money-laundering offences related to investigations into alleged financial mismanagement at Malaysian state investor 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). Singapore is cooperating with authorities in Malaysia, Switzerland and the United States on the investigations into 1MDB, the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Commercial Affairs Department, the city-state's white collar police, said in a statement. "In connection with these investigations, we have sought and are continuing to seek information from several financial institutions, are interviewing various individuals, and have seized a large number of bank accounts," the two agencies said in the statement. - https://www.ft.com/content/ec182626-8f64-11e6-a72e-b428cb934b78 Switzerland on Tuesday accused Zurich-based Falcon Private Bank of serious anti-money laundering failings and Singapore withdrew its local banking licence over dealings related to alleged large-scale international corruption involving 1MDB. The city state’s monetary authority also separately fined UBS of Switzerland and Singapore’s DBS Bank for 1MDB-linked rule breaches.
- https://www.ft.com/content/c391f30a-d31e-11e6-9341-7393bb2e1b51 Jens Sturzenegger, former head of FalconPrivate Bank’s Singapore branch, will plead guilty to some of a 16-count charge sheet related mainly to the alleged falsification or withholding of information, his lawyer told a court hearing in the city state on Thursday. The case is the latest in a series mounted by Singapore over the 1MDB scandal, which has also spawned probes in the US, Switzerlandand other countries where stolen money allegedly flowed. The affair triggered a political crisis in Malaysia and embroiled Najib Razak, the prime minister, who has denied any wrongdoing.
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-malaysia-scandal-singapore-idUSKBN18Q01PSingapore's central bank has fined Credit Suisse and United Overseas Bank (UOB) a total of S$1.6 million ($1.2 million) for breaching anti-money laundering rules in transactions related to Malaysia's scandal-ridden state fund 1MDB. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said on Tuesday it had fined UOB S$900,000 and Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) S$700,000 as it wrapped up its two-year probe into banks involved in 1MDB-related transactions, which revealed several breaches of anti-money laundering (AML) requirements and control lapses.
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-malaysia-scandal-singapore/singapore-issues-more-financial-bans-related-to-1mdb-scandal-idUSKBN1ED09Q Singapore’s central bank on Tuesday said it had permanently barred Yeo Jiawei, a former wealth manager of Swiss bank BSI involved in breaches related to Malaysia’s 1MDB fund, from managing financial services firms and advisory activities.
- 新加坡法院周一下令，把調查馬來西亞國家發展基金一馬發展公司（1MDB）的金融醜聞時查扣、來自1MDB及其前子公司SRC國際的一千五百三十萬新加坡元（約八千七百零七萬港元），歸還給馬來西亞。今次是追討行動的第一階段，款項將存入設在吉隆坡的專屬銀行戶口。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180911/00180_014.html
- railway
- http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/singapore-malaysia-sign/2964102.htmlA Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the Singapore-Malaysia High-Speed Rail (HSR) project was signed by the neighbouring countries on Tuesday (Jul 19). The MoU captures key points of agreement on the project, including technical parameters, commercial model, customs, immigration and quarantine clearance, safety and security matters, regulatory framework as well as project management, a joint release by Malaysia's Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) and Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA) said.
Indonesia
- air pollution
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20150926/00180_032.html 新加坡空氣污染指數曾達至三百四十一點的有害水平，雖然稍後回落至三百以下，但仍處於「非常不健康」水平，國各地亦平均錄得超過二百點。星中小學停課 促追究企業.總理李顯龍呼籲國民盡量留在室內，以及飲足夠水，當局會到區內向長者及體弱人士派發N95口罩。新加坡又點名指四間印尼公司要為山火負責。印尼環境及森林局日前稱已拒絕新加坡協助。副總統卡拉曾批評，新加坡每年享受十一個月來自印尼的清新空氣，卻從不感恩，要忍受一個月霧霾則怨聲載道。印尼幾乎每年均發生山火，主因包括企業以焚燒林木方式，開闢棕櫚樹種植園。去年新加坡空氣污染指數一度高達四百點。
- http://www.ibtimes.com/singapore-haze-leads-legal-action-against-indonesian-firms-could-result-massive-fines-2115451 Singapore has sued five Indonesian companies blamed for farm and plantation fires causing serious air pollution over the city-state, which is a global financial centre with a tropical climate and multicultural population. The latest move by the Singapore government could lead to massive fines against the companies that have been served with legal notices, according to a government statement issued Friday. Under the 2014 Transboundary Haze Pollution Act, Singapore can impose a fine of about $70,000 for each day on a local or foreign company that contributes to unhealthy levels of haze pollution in the city. The maximum amount of such a fine could reach up to $1.4 million, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
- The embassy estimates that there are about 200,000 Filipinos working in the Lion City, and about 40 per cent have jobs as domestic workers.As of this June, there were 255,800 domestic workers in the Lion City. They live with their employers, and get just one day off per week.For those in the Filipino community, Lucky Plaza is their “Little Manila”, where they remit money home, meet friends, and buy clothes and food.https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3043985/singapores-filipino-community-grieves-after-car-hits-six
taiwan
- 星光計劃
- hkej 10oct17 shum article
Hong Kong
- senior officials visit
- 梁振英晤新加坡總理 (17.9.2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWh0nHou56g&list=TLoqFVYv07BrmnYAaf37F9zPOsLnsMwlbq&index=2
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170419/PDF/a10_screen.pdf：行政長官梁振 英昨日與訪港的新加坡副總理兼國家安全統籌部 長張志賢會面，就雙方關注的議題交換意見。
- 林郑月娥上任后首次出访新加坡，昨日早上参观新加坡市区重建局，市建局主席何学渊介绍当地裕廊湖区（Jurong Lake District）的规划理念，指该区日后将发展成新加坡第二个商业中心区。两人亦就香港和新加坡在新发展区规划和市区重建方面分享经验。接着，林郑月娥到访新加坡公共服务学院，她强调，有意在香港建立类似学院，期望特区政府与新加坡公共服务学院未来进行更多交流。林郑月娥中午参加新加坡副总理兼国家安全统筹部长张志贤所设的午宴。她在席上感谢新加坡对香港与东南亚国家联盟（东盟）签订自由贸易协定的支持，并提出 希望加强两地公务员交流。林太其后参观创新数码服务实验室“GovTech Hive”，又欣赏新加坡政府为提升公共服务水平而设立“GovTech Hive”，并表示特区政府亦计划利用科技改善各项公共服务。被问到参观新加坡市建局有何得着，林郑月娥称，新加坡市区重建局与香港的 市区重建局，工作性质及范围并不相同，香港负责旧区重建，新加坡负责整个城市规划，而香港城市规划工作属于发展局。至于房屋问题，林太强调，特区政府非常 关心置业困难问题，在土地供应和房屋政策方面找方法，但现未能公布内容。林郑月娥其后与荣誉国务资政吴作栋会面，向他简介香港未来发展路向及她的愿景。之后，林郑月娥拜会总理李显龙。她表示香港会善用“一国两制”优势，推动经济发展。她期望促进与东盟国家包括新加坡的关系，共同把握国家“一带一路”倡议为沿线国家和地区带来的机遇。其后李显龙伉俪设宴款待林郑月娥，林兆波博士亦有出席。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170804/PDF/a9_screen.pdf
- news supp
- Scmp 15aug16
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/singapore-military-vehicles-seized-in-hong-kong/2016/11/25/a65fd5d6-b2e9-11e6-bc2d-19b3d759cfe7_story.html
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20161127/00176_024.html 有報道指運載該批裝甲車的貨輪，到港前曾在福建省廈門停泊，更有內地港口人員發現船上有軍事用品，香港海關是收到內地部門通知港府才扣查該批裝甲車，而非例行巡查發現。有軍事評論員指事件已演變成外交風波，令香港陷入兩難局面，目前最好的解決方法是依法處理。http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2049429/mainland-agents-tipped-hong-kong-about-singapores-tanks
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20161130/00176_042.html 新加坡國防部部長黃永宏則表示已展開取回裝甲車的程序，據知負責託運的船公司APL高層昨與香港海關舉行會議，新加坡國防部及軍方會密切留意進展，望可澄清法律上的問題，稍後再決定下一步跟進行動。
- http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2050555/maker-seized-military-vehicles-hong-kong-confident-deal
- http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2050806/no-formal-reasons-yet-seizure-military-vehicles-hong-kongMore than a week after a shipment of armoured troop carriers belonging to Singapore was impounded by Hong Kong customs, the city state’s Ministry of Defence said on Thursday it had yet to be given a formal explanation as to why the military vehicles were seized in the first place.
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20170110/00176_017.html新加坡總理李顯龍致函行政長官梁振英，要求港府立即歸還九輛在港被扣押的裝甲車；該國國防部長黃永宏質疑港府做法有違國際及香港法律，指國家資產享豁免 權，不容遭扣押或限制。中國外交部冀新加坡切實遵循香港法律，希望有關方面謹言慎行。行政長官辦公室確認收到李顯龍致函，稱海關正調查，港府會按香港法律 處理；海關則指案件仍在調查，無進一步資料可提供。
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20170126/00176_020.html鄧忍光昨出席海關年結記者會表示，已完成裝甲車事件的搜證，前日已通知船公司可隨時取回裝甲車，並通知對方需按進出口條例，向工業貿易署申請許可證，然後才可由船公司安排運走。
- http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2081209/hong-kong-customs-charges-shipping-company-and-captain-over Hong Kong customs is set to press chargesagainst the shipping company and the captain of the container ship which transported nine Singapore military vehicles into the city from Taiwan in November without a required licence. Shipping company APL is expected to be issued with a summons while the captain of the container ship is to be charged with importing strategic commodities without a required licence, according to a government source with knowledge of the case.
- 香港與新加坡進一步為兩地居民互用e道提供便利措施。今日（13日）開始，年滿十一歲或以上的特區護照持有人，如之前廿四個月內曾到訪新加坡不少於兩次，在當地無不良紀錄，可帶同有效期不少於六個月的特區護照，到設於新加坡樟宜機場等地點，登記使用當地的自助出入境檢查服務。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20181213/00176_038.html
- e-commerce
- 香港与新加坡两地的金融管理局昨日交换谅解备忘录 （MoU），合作开发“全球贸易连接网络”，运用分布式分类帐技术（DLT）构建跨境基建，推动两地以至区内及全球的贸易及贸易融资业务数码化。全球贸易 连接网络预计于2019年初投入运作，以配合香港贸易融资平台及新加坡全国贸易平台内贸易融资组件的投产日期。 两地金管局是在“2017新加坡金融科技节”举行期间签订MoU。两个监管机构也会在金融科技节的工作坊上，与各主要DLT方案供应商展开讨论，期望于2018年第一季内，确定全球贸易连接网络的运作模式及技术细则http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20171116/PDF/a18_screen.pdf
- commodities
- 日前，金銀業貿易場（CGSE）與 新加坡貴金屬市場協會（SBMA）雙方 達成協議，共同發展香港—新加坡貴金 屬商品市場互通歷史性的新一章，於新 加坡舉行之 「亞太區貴金屬論壇2017」 上進行 「金銀業貿易場與新加坡貴金屬 市場協會《合作備忘錄》簽約儀式」， 超過300位國際金商參與盛會。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170613/PDF/b13_screen.pdf.
- https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3041681/pork-gods-can-singapore-solve-hong-kongs-pig-problem Hong Kong may have more to learn from Singapore, even though the Lion City imports only about 126,000 tonnes of pork every year – about a quarter of the amount Hong Kong does Singapore’s pork imports can be split into three categories: live pigs from Pulau Bulan in Indonesia and Sarawak, Malaysia; frozen pork from 23 countries, and chilled pork from eight.Singapore’s only abattoir processes about 1,000 pigs a day from Pulau Bulau. These come in on a barge and are herded into the abattoir where three inspectors check for anomalies regarding gait, body condition, and skin colour. Pigs that pass the inspection are branded with a pink mark, then slaughtered and sold as chilled pork. One avenue of inquiry for Hong Kong’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department will be whether it can import live pigs in a similar fashion.In 2008, Singapore launched a public education programme encouraging consumers to buy frozen meat to reduce reliance on freshly killed or chilled meat. The campaign is credited with boosting frozen pork consumption from 57,600 tonnes in 2008 to 71,900 tonnes in 2012, while consumption of chilled pork fell by 1,700 tonnes in the same period. The campaign was a revival of the Lion City’s Eat Frozen Pork Campaign, launched in 1985 when the country was phasing out domestic pig farming. Since then the price of pork has been remarkably stable in Singapore; last year chilled lean pork cost S$13.73 per kg (US$10 per kg), up by roughly just S$1 in a decade.Experts said that Hong Kong, too, could benefit by encouraging consumers to embrace frozen pork and thus reduce the city’s reliance on importing live pigs. In 2002, frozen pork accounted for 46 per cent of Hong Kong’s pork imports, live pigs accounted for 51 per cent and chilled pork made up the rest.https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3041681/pork-gods-can-singapore-solve-hong-kongs-pig-problem
- entertainment
- in 1981, 文樹森from tvb went to singapore to assist with development of tv industry
- promotion event in Singapore
- 中總將在 7月 24日（下周五）攜手香港特 區政府等機構於新加坡舉辦「香港─新加坡發展與機遇 論壇」，探討港星兩地在促進區域合作上的新角色。他 表示，多年來中總不遺餘力協助華商了解海外市場，推 動華商彼此之間加強聯繫與合作。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2015/07/17/a16-0717.pdf
- 香港中華總商會日前於新加坡與香港駐新加坡經貿辦事處、中國貿促會新加坡分會合辦「香港-新加坡夥伴合作午餐會」。政務司司長林鄭月娥和新加坡貿工部政務部長張思樂擔任主講嘉賓，探討香港與新加坡如何透過相互學習及合作發掘新機遇，以及在東盟區域合作中發揮更大作用。中總永遠名譽會長蔡冠深致歡迎辭並主持互動交流環節。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2015/08/08/a11-0808.pdf, http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20150814/PDF/b15_screen.pdf 蔡冠深表示，一直以來，大家都以為香港和新加坡是競爭 的關係，但事實上香港人在新加坡投資已有三四十年的歷史， 故彼此應該有良性的競爭，同時也應該有合作。希望透過這次 午餐會，加強雙方良好合作基礎和聯繫。香港中華總商會將積 極發揮平台作用，推動香港與東盟的貿易及資金流，為雙方的 工商業創造商機。蔡冠深又指，隨着東盟經濟共同體銳意於本 年底整合區域內擁有六億人口及生產總值超過2000億美元的龐 大市場，以及中國─東盟自貿協議和區域全面經濟夥伴關係框 架協定落實，預期可加快區域貿易和投資的擴展並且有利於全 球經濟增長和發展。 該午餐會亦得到新加坡中華總商會、香港貿易發展局以及 香港新加坡商會擔任支持機構，與會者包括來自香港、新加坡 及其他東盟國家和地區的商界代表等近200人。今次在新加坡 舉行的 「香港─新加坡合作午餐會」，是香港中華總商會繼 2012年在香港舉行 「香港高峰論壇─香港與東亞區域合作」 及去年在吉隆坡的「香港─東盟區域合作論壇」之後的系列活動 ，旨在進一步向當地工商界介紹香港在東盟區域合作的角色。 為配合該午餐會及加強與新加坡工商各界的聯繫，香港中華總商會組織20 多人的代表團赴吉隆坡，由該會蔡冠深永遠名譽會長率領，馬忠禮副會長任副 團長，成員包括常務會董黃士心，會董蔡關穎琴、梁婉儀、陳光明、林增榮、 李惟宏，團體會董陳建年及該會會員等。代表團一行除出席上述午餐會外，並 參加香港駐新加坡經貿辦事處成立20周年晚宴，並拜訪中國駐新加坡大使館、 新加坡中總，參觀新加坡建國50周年圖片展等。
- silk road
- http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1841190/maritime-silk-road-will-weave-hong-kong-and-singapore-closer
- To be launched at the end of 2015 hkej 20oct15 a6 http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2015/10/20/b02-1020.pdf
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20151228/00176_031.html 今次沙中線鑽石山站擴建工程發生罕見的聯營公司財困事件，利基控股有限公司主席單偉彪說因此損失四、五千萬元，形容是「同人上錯床」及「成世仔好大教訓」，但他同時慶幸新加坡公司退出，令有關工程毋須再「綁手綁腳」，推展項目的進度更勝以前，笑言「少少感謝佢冧囉！」單偉彪表示，聯營公司由對方任領導者，「佢哋（勝寶旺）佔五成半、我哋四成半」，但其實大部分工作均由利達一方負責，「大部分人由利達出，佢哋廿幾人，我哋出七成人！」他指出，對方實際只是「茄哩啡」，並沒有太大實質貢獻，「唔Productivity（欠生產力），人工又貴」，在勝寶旺退出後，利達只需重新聘請五人，便足以處理對方原來的工作。說到前事，單偉彪說初是勝寶旺主動邀請合組聯營公司發展本港市場，自己一時「心軟」同意，甚至貸款予對方，結果卻不幸「中招」。「細節我唔講啦，成世仔好大教訓……結果證明我哋錯，港鐵亦錯！我哋本地公司，無得選擇，唔係人哋咁話走就走，起貨係我哋天職！」利基旗下公司目前參與高鐵的牛潭尾至大江埔隧道以及屯門至赤鱲角連接路等大型工程。單偉彪表示，隨着未來兩年大型項目陸續落成，對建造工人的緊張需求將得以紓緩，加上建築物料如鐵、鋼筋等價格下降，工程費用將有望回落。
- 過去三年香港及新加坡發生共百宗雙方旅客的消費糾紛，為排解該類投訴，香港消委會昨日與新加坡消費者協會簽訂合作協議書，建立兩地訊息及投訴個案互通機制，日後香港居民若在新加坡當地門市及網上購物遇到糾紛，可向香港消委會投訴，再轉交新加坡消費者協會跟進，新加坡訪港旅客回國後的投訴亦有同樣機制處理。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20190907/00176_059.html
- delegation to hk
- The Chamber hosted 41 senior Singaporean civil servants on 10 May on a fact-finding visit. Led by Accountant-General Ow Fook Chuen, the Singaporean delegation was hosted by Andrew Wells, Asia & Africa Committee Chairman, and Watson Chan, Chamber Deputy CEO. They discussed a range of issues about Hong Kong and the Mainland economy including economic, social and political developments. Andrew Wells and Rocky Tung, Chamber Senior Economist, delivered detailed presentations about Hong Kong’s economic trends. The delegation was on a trip as part of the Global Leadership Program, which is for senior Singaporean civil servants.https://www.facebook.com/hkgcc/photos/pcb.1511865542207983/1511865395541331/?type=3&theater
- delegation from hk
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20150804/PDF/b12_screen.pdf 金銀贸易場mission
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20160416/PDF/a15_screen.pdf 香港青年聯會組織香港工商界青年領袖20餘人訪問新加坡。代表團團長是香港青年聯會主席、泛華會計師事務所有限公司執行董事範駿華，香港青年聯會副主席、信和集團執行董事黃永光，香港青年聯會副主席、新鴻基地產執行董事郭基煇為執行團長，香港青年聯會常務副主席、高鋒集團董事會主席吳傑莊等為副團長。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2016/04/26/a12-0426.pdf
- http://prnw.cbe.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/formation-of-joint-ventures-and-award-of-tender-for-land-parcel-at-alexandra-view-in-singapore.html The Board of Far East Consortium International Limited (“FEC” , the “Group” or the “Company”, SEHK: 35) is pleased to announce that on 17 November, 2015, the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore awarded to the Joint Venture (“JVCO”) formed by Tang City Holdings, the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, and Gigantic Global Limited (“GGL”), an independent third party, the Tender for acquisition of the property located at Alexandra View in Singapore (“the Property”) for residential development for flats, serviced apartments, or both flats and serviced apartments with commercial uses at the Tendered Sale Price of S$376.88 million (exclusive of GST) (equivalent to approximately HK$2,054.00 million), subject to the conditions set out in the documents contained in the Developer’s Packet.
- 華人文化昨日宣佈入股新加坡上市公司Cityneon Holdings Limited。據了解，Cityneon即將在中國推出《變形金剛》等互動主題娛樂體驗項目。Cityneon成立於1956年，是以文化旅遊、現場主題娛樂創意概念開發及建造為主要業務的公司。目前，其與其子公司擁有多個全球知名IP的獨家現場展覽娛樂體驗授權，其中包括《變形金剛（Transformers）》和《復仇者聯盟》等。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2016/05/14/b03-0514.pdf
- 信德集 團（0242）首度進軍新加坡。該集團昨日 宣佈，旗下全資附屬公司 Shun Tak Real Estate (Singapore) Pte Ltd以 1.45億新加坡 元（約 8.2億港元）投得新加坡卡斯加登 路(Cuscaden Road)9號的一幅永久業權土 地。該土地屬酒店用地，經新加坡相關政 府部門之批准，亦可改作住宅用途。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2016/05/24/b04-0524.pdf
- http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2016/05/24/b04-0524.pdf於新加坡從事物業開發 業務的青建國際（1240）前晚公佈，收購 新加坡一項住宅發展項目。青建國際與 Shunfu Ville 約 81%的業主就集體銷售訂 立買賣協議，總代價為 6.38 億新加坡元 （約 35.9億港元），這是新加坡有史以來 其中一項最大規模之集體銷售。
- Golden Village is a movie theatre operator based in Singapore which is a 50:50 joint venture by Golden Harvest of Hong Kongand Village Roadshow of Australia. It operates eleven multiplexes and cineplexes in the country. It joined hands to open a cinema at Great World City, GV Grand. Started in 1992, it opened Asia's first multiplex, the Yishun 10 multiplex. The cinema has the extensive management, operational and marketing skills of Village, as well as broad depth of experience of Golden Harvest in both film distribution and production across Asia.
- companies listed in hk/planned ipo
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20171204/00202_010.html據本報統計，今年內來港上市的新加坡公司數目達15間，暫時超越在新加坡本土上市的14間。
- 新加坡網絡供應商MyRepublic計 劃明年在香港首次公開招股（IPO），公司計劃於明 年1月或2月進行最後一次集資活動並於明年年底前在 港上市。 新加坡《商業時報》（Business Times）引述 MyRepublic行政總裁Malcolm Rodrigues表示，該 公司計劃於2020年7月或8月申請來香港發售新股，並 在2020年底之前在港掛牌上市。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20191004/PDF/a19_screen.pdf
- investors from singapore
- http://finance.yahoo.com/news/rhtlaw-taylor-wessing-adds-hong-101400219.html Sixth largest law firm in Singapore adds Hong Kong and Greater China capabilities to the growing bench strength and reach of the ASEAN Plus network across Asia. Move comes after successful launch of RHTLaw Taylor Wessing Vietnam.This association in Hong Kong is the latest addition to RHTLaw Taylor Wessing's rapidly growing ASEAN Plus Group, a Pan-Asian grouping of leading legal firms. By being an integral part of ASEAN Plus Group, HM Chan & Co opens up unprecedented opportunities for cross-border collaboration between Hong Kong / Greater China and the rest of the Pan-Asian offices in the ASEAN Plus grouping which was launched in 2014. Launching a new office in Hong Kong is part of a series of strategic growth initiatives the firm has planned to bolster presence across ASEAN and North Asia.
- 香港及新加坡兩地上市的勝捷 企業（06090）主要從事工人及學 生宿舍開發業務及提供管理服務， 生產及銷售光盤及相關儲存產品。 目前公司於全球擁有約6萬張床位，其中大部分 為工人宿舍，其餘則為學生宿舍。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20181126/PDF/a17_screen.pdf
- 儘 管個別共享工作空間營運商倒閉離場 個案，但來自新加坡的共享工作空間 The Great Room仍於 4月開始以豪華 路線進駐港島東太古坊，每張辦公桌 的入場月租由 7,000 元起。營運商 指，Co-working愈來愈常見，故未來 重點是服務配套的質素。 未來重點服務配套質素 The Great Room 聯合創辦人兼行 政總裁洪可珈表示，公司以高級服 務為主導，服務配套受酒店式服務 啟發，目標租戶是成熟的初創企 業。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2019/07/10/b04-0710.pdf
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20160417/00176_110.html 來自新加坡嘅名媛珠寶設計師劉黃寧達（Leta）去年居港滿七年，終於攞到「三粒星」身份證成為香港永久性居民。
- In 1987, Chua was posted to Hong Kong and set up two publishing joint ventures in China, before joining United International Pictures (a joint venture then between movie studio giants Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, and MGM) about three years later, where he negotiated for the release of Hollywood movies in China – a feat for its time.Chua then joined Mary Kay in 1995 as president of its China operations, cementing the company’s presence as one of the pioneers of direct selling in the country. In 1998, he took over the role as president of the Asia-Pacific region, overseeing operations in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines and Taiwan, and Singapore.https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3045407/china-no-longer-place-be-young-singaporeans
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20180122/00269_002.html
- 世紀21香港行政總裁吳啟民指，在九十年代時，新加坡推出居新權計劃，吸引港人特別是專業人士移民新加坡。新加坡與香港有接近的英聯邦制度，不限制資金進出，基建體制有利外資營商，港人較易適應，只是新加坡移民政策對申請人相對揀擇。現時申請新加坡永居的方法包括投資移民、創業移民、技術移民等。申請人的配偶和21歲以下子女亦可申請永居。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20191120/00269_001.html
- 香港中樂團在新加坡的 「月韻風采」音樂會http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20140928/PDF/b7_screen.pdf
- scmo supplement 9aug15
People
- Lee Kuan Yew
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20150324/PDF/a9_screen.pdf 歐陽啟齊回憶說，姑姑歐陽煥燕起初是在 著名華僑陳嘉庚家裡幹活，一直工作了9 年，因為日軍侵略新加坡，陳家回重慶， 歐陽煥燕才離開了陳家。後來，李光耀的 媽媽請她去家裡做工，「一幹就是40年」。 「她去的時候，李光耀還是一名律師 。她幫助李家帶大了李光耀的三個子女， 李顯龍、李顯揚和女兒李偉玲，也見證了 李光耀一步步走向新加坡總理的過程。」 歐陽啟齊說，李家小姐李偉玲和姑姑甚為 親密，而現任新加坡總理李顯龍從姍姍學 步到去英國留學的這段時間裡，她一直負 責照料。
- family tree scmp 18jun17 this week inasia
- 新加坡已故建國總理李光耀的孫子李桓武，本月初上載與男友的合照公開「出櫃」。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180722/00180_005.html
- 新加坡總理李顯龍長子李毅鵬日前坐車時，遭一名男子偷拍，對方反覆確認李毅鵬的身份、住址與保安情況，偷拍影片更被上載至互聯網。警方現已介入調查，李顯龍亦獲悉此事。李毅鵬患有白化症，李顯龍的新聞秘書事後發聲明，指關注有弱勢人士被利用：「毅鵬碰巧是總理之子，但新加坡還有許多其他弱勢人士單獨外出，必須確保他們外出時安全，不被利用或騷擾，私隱不被侵犯。」https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190319/00180_020.html
- Sellapan Ramanathan, DUT (First Class)(born Cellappaṉ Rāmanātaṉ, 3 July 1924 – 22 August 2016) was a Singaporeanpolitician who was the sixth President of Singapore from 1999 to 2011. Usually referred to as S. R. Nathan, he was first sworn in on 1 September 1999. In 1999 and 2005, he was elected President inuncontested elections.
- yeo hiap seng
- http://www.singaporelawwatch.sg/slw/headlinesnews/64281-yeo-hiap-seng-kin-in-tussle-over-will.html tWENTY years ago, brothers Charles and Henry Yeo - third-generation descendants of the founder of food and beverage company Yeo Hiap Seng - were in the same camp ousted by a rival faction in a family feud over control of the business. Now, the two brothers are facing off against each other in court over the estate of their late mother, who died in 2013 at the age of 88. Henry, 64, is seeking to uphold a will that Madam Ng Lay Hua made in 2012, in which she left the lion's share of her assets to him. Madam Ng had left him a detached house in Sian Tuan Avenue, a semi-detached house in Watten Terrace and half a share of a detached house in Hua Guan Avenue. The other half of the Hua Guan Avenue house was left to Madam Ng's granddaughter, the child of her eldest daughter. The value of the properties, all in the Bukit Timah area, was not mentioned in court. Eldest son Charles, 67, whose entire family was cut out of the will, is contesting its validity. He asserts that his mother lacked the capacity to make a valid will after her physical and mental health deteriorated in 2006. Charles, the only one of her four children who has male offspring, contends that it was irrational for the traditional woman to exclude her eldest son, only grandson and only great-grandsons completely from her will.
- Chen Jiageng (Tan Kha-Khee)
- migrant from Minnan to Southeast Asia, built up a huge fortune in 1920s and 1930s in Singpaore in rubber. He used part of his fortune to build a model school in his home village, Jimei (Fujian), and to endow Xiamen University (source: Diana Lary Chinese Migration)
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