Survey ranks Singapore as best place to live for Asian expats

Survey ranks Singapore as best place to live for Asian expats
Posted: 04 March 2008 1647 hrs
 
SINGAPORE – Singapore is the best city in the world for Asian expatriates to live in due mainly to its quality of life and low crime rate, a survey released Tuesday by ECA International showed.
 
Sydney was rated [...]

This OLD SCHOOL is going HI-TECH

This OLD SCHOOL is going HI-TECH
 
SLA awards site of former Nanyang Institute of Management to James Cook University
 
STUDENTS at the Singapore campus of Australia’s James Cook University (JCU) will soon have a sprawling campus of their own with state-of-the-art classrooms and a more student-friendly environment.
 
By Karen Wong
 
 
05 March 2008
 
STUDENTS at the Singapore campus of Australia’s [...]

Never mind rising rentals, they want order

Never mind rising rentals, they want order
 
Wednesday • March 5, 2008
 
Tan Hui Leng
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EVEN as skyrocketing rentals, other rising costs and the competition for places in international schools have raised concerns about whether Singapore is losing its attractiveness to expatriate talent, one survey has laid such fears to rest — at least where Asian expats are [...]

‘Magic dollars’ scam lets HDB flat sellers pocket cash

‘Magic dollars’ scam lets HDB flat sellers pocket cash
 
They declare a lower price, thus keeping the difference instead of returning funds to CPF
 
By Jessica Cheam
 
A NEW scam involving HDB flats has surfaced, this time allowing flat sellers to pocket extra cash by craftily getting around the rules.
 
The so-called ‘magic dollars’ scam involves reporting [...]

Foreign workers a boon: minister

Foreign workers a boon: minister
 
By LEE U-WEN
 
THE secret of Singapore’s strong job growth, according to Manpower Minister Ng Eng Hen, is not to rely solely on locals to fill the vacancies. Instead, it was the ministry allowing businesses here to readily tap foreign workers to meet their needs that has proven to be [...]

Parkway got the medicine right for Novena deal?

Parkway got the medicine right for Novena deal?
 
By CHEN HUIFEN
 
AS THE property investment chant goes, there are three factors that one needs to consider in a purchase: location, location, and location.
 
But for a hospital operator, does location count too?
 
In Parkway Holdings’ case, apparently it does.
 
Having been punished by the market recently [...]

4th varsity may offer courses in high-growth industries

4th varsity may offer courses in high-growth industries
 
It will have an annual intake of between 2,500 and 3,000 students
 
By LEE U-WEN
 
PLANS to set up a fourth publicly-funded university in Singapore are beginning to take firm shape.
 
Two preliminary recommendations by the committee overseeing the local university sector’s expansion were announced in Parliament yesterday.
 
The [...]

For sale: 18th floor of Peninsula Plaza at $17.5m

For sale: 18th floor of Peninsula Plaza at $17.5m
 
By KALPANA RASHIWALA
 
NOVELTY Department Store Pte Ltd, part of the Novelty Group, has put the entire 18th floor of Peninsula Plaza up for sale, with a price tag of about $17.5 million or about $2,050 per square foot (psf) of strata area.
 
Peninsula Plaza is [...]

Energy-efficient properties popular with companies

Energy-efficient properties popular with companies
 
By MATTHEW PHAN
 
(SINGAPORE) Contrary to what some developers think, a majority of companies are willing to pay a premium for properties designed with ’sustainable’ principles in mind, a recent survey by real estate firms Jones Lang LaSalle and CoreNet Global shows.
 
The bottleneck is, rather, on the supply side, where [...]

Time to plan for the recovery that’s lying around the corner

Time to plan for the recovery that’s lying around the corner
 
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
 
(NEW YORK) Say the economy has fallen into recession, as so many people on and off Wall Street think. Is it time to bail out of stocks?
 
Selling may be the reflexive response by shareholders who have watched the value of [...]