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The Business Times Online Edition - Singapore

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NANYANG Technological University (NTU) has launched a $10 million fund to support entrepreneurship and innovation education in the university. - [Read more]

LEHMAN Minibond investors will have more clarity by the end of this month on their investment, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said yesterday. - [Read more]

HE may be wrestling with scores of decisions that lie ahead, but the top priority for incoming US President Barack Obama should be recruiting the best team to help him take the country forward. - [Read more]

SINGAPORES general insurers enjoyed a 24 per cent rise in gross premium income in all classes to $708.4 million for the three months ended Sept 30. - [Read more]

THE National Arts Council (NAC) yesterday launched a $3.5 million fund to encourage original works that depict Singapore culture. - [Read more]

THE United States will remain first among equals long after the dust from the global financial meltdown settles, but the rise of East Asia could be accelerated by crisis, according to Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong. - [Read more]

NO bid was received for an executive condominium housing site - despite its being attractively located in Punggol - by the time the tender closed yesterday. - [Read more]

THEFT and wastage cost Singapores retailers some US$173 million in the year ended June 2008, according to a survey by the Centre for Retail Research in the UK and sponsored by Checkpoint Systems Inc, a NYSE-listed supplier of retail shrink management solutions. - [Read more]

TRADE agency International Enterprise (IE) Singapore and the Ningbo Peoples Government yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen economic collaboration, at the opening ceremony of Ningbo Week Singapore 2008. - [Read more]

BEYOND providing funding and training opportunities, local authorities are roping in international mentors in the hope of giving the countrys fledging digital media sector a further boost. - [Read more]

(SINGAPORE) The number of foreign patients at Parkway Holdings hospitals dipped 5-7 per cent in the latest quarter - a sign that the medical tourism sector is ailing amid the economic downturn. - [Read more]

(SINGAPORE) A 10-15 per cent fall in overall housing prices could shave 0.4 to 0.6 of a percentage point off annual GDP growth due to lower construction investments alone, according to Citigroup. - [Read more]

(SINGAPORE) The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) is counting on international association meetings and trade shows to fuel the growth of the MICE industry here, as corporate meetings could be shelved amid the economic crunch. - [Read more]

CHRISTMAS is just six weeks away and the festive spirit is alive and well - recession or otherwise. Orchard Hotel has set up a seven-metre-high chocolate castle made of several thousand eggs, assorted nuts and 385 kg of icing sugar in its lobby. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE was placed in third spot both as a preferred destination for conferences - up one notch from last year - as well as in the category of best new country for business, according to the study Country Brand Index (CBI) 2008. - [Read more]

THE Ministry of Finance has received 52 responses in the public consultation exercise on the draft circular on research and development (R&D) for income tax purposes that took place in August and September. - [Read more]

WITH four months to go before Budget 2009 is delivered in Parliament, economists say that it is highly unlikely that Singapore will go the way of countries such as China and introduce a one-off help package to stimulate the economy. - [Read more]

GREEN development in the building space is likely to take a backseat among some organisations given the economic slowdown because the benefits are not tangible in the short-term, a building consultant said. - [Read more]

SOME investors who are now seeking compensation from the soured Lehman Minibond purchases went in with their eyes open, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said yesterday. - [Read more]

(SINGAPORE) It is full steam ahead for Singapore-based Tolaram Groups expansion in the petrochemical sector in Nigeria, where it is banking on the countrys abundant natural resources and the increasing emphasis on clean energy. - [Read more]