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The Business Times Online Edition - Singapore

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SINGAPORE has been lauded as an example of a successful urban centre by a United Nations report that studies the state of the worlds cities. - [Read more]

GLOBAL human capital consulting firm Aon Consulting yesterday announced the setting up of its international headquarters (IHQ) in Singapore. - [Read more]

SEPTEMBER factory output rose 2.4 per cent year-on-year, reversing two months of slumps, the Economic Development Board said yesterday. - [Read more]

WHY aspire to be a second Boston or second London and not a first-rate Singapore? - [Read more]

SMEs and MNCs face different challenges when it comes to managing talent and each may have lessons to share with the other, said members of a panel at the Singapore Human Capital Summit seminar yesterday. - [Read more]

THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) has raised $2.1 million for a record 19 charities at this years Bull Charge 2008 event. - [Read more]

THE chief executive takes you out to lunch, listens to your problems and offers you some advice. Thats mentorship according to most CEOs in Asia, says a study commissioned by Singapores Ministry of Manpower. - [Read more]

PRIVATE property prices will fall 5-6 per cent in the next two years even if the Singapore economy holds up, according to an economists projections. - [Read more]

DRIVEN by China and India, Asia will still see annual growth of 3-5 per cent as the world economy recovers in the next three to five years, says Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. - [Read more]

THESE are troubling financial times, but also the years of an Asian renaissance, says Bernard Yeung, the new dean of the NUS Business School. - [Read more]

SINGAPORES tripartite movement has weathered crises, but its sustainability may be challenged by volatility and demographic shifts. - [Read more]

THE Public Service Division (PSD) is still studying whether to revise civil service pay. - [Read more]

WITH a business environment comprising many family- or state-owned corporations, Asia does not train enough effective chief executives, said president and CEO of CapitaLand Liew Mun Leong. - [Read more]

BUILDERS, operators and service providers of Singapores new digital highway could face cost and complexity challenges on the road ahead, said accounting and business advisory firm Ernst & Young. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE-BASED business space provider Ascendas yesterday launched a 33-hectare integrated park project within Chinas Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP). - [Read more]

LEADERS can be groomed and, with this mind, the Workforce Development Agency (WDA) has developed a national competency framework that will not just underpin corporate leadership development in Singapore, but also chart leadership talent. - [Read more]

SINGAPORES inflation rate inched upwards last month as Septembers consumer price index (CPI) rose 6.7 per cent from the same month last year, compared with Augusts 6.4 per cent increase year on year. - [Read more]

RETAIL landlords are headed for a rough patch as consumer spending weakens amid the economic downturn and with 3.4 million sq ft of new retail space scheduled for completion next year, property consultants say. - [Read more]

IN EUROPE, they speak of the financial crisis turning into a leadership crisis. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE cardiologist Michael Lim has been named editor-in-chief of Heart Asia, a new scientific journal backed by the publisher of the reputable British Medical Journal. - [Read more]