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SINGAPORE: Chip foundry Chartered Semiconductor has reduced its guidance for the fourth quarter due to weaker demand from customers. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE: Airlines and airport partners at Singapore's Changi Airport will get some help amid the global economic downturn. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE: Singapore shares were 1.41 per cent lower shortly after opening on Friday following Wall Street's heavy fall on dimmer prospects for an auto industry bailout. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE: Mainboard-listed Midas Holdings has secured a contract to supply aluminium alloy extrusion profiles to the French infrastructure group Alstom. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE: Laguna Park condominium along Marine Parade Road could be up for collective sale. It's not yet a done deal but about 77 per cent of tenants there have agreed to it. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE: Troubled times in the financial markets could mean boom time for Islamic finance. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE: Mainboard-listed United Engineers has sold more than 70 per cent of its first public housing project, Park Central @ AMK, which is being developed by its subsidiary Greatearth Developments. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE: Technology companies in Asia remain confident of maintaining strong growth over the next 12 months despite the current financial turmoil. That's according to a survey by Deloitte of the top 500 fastest growing technology companies in Asia Pacific. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE: Retrenchment blues have hit close to 100 employees working for Dutch electronics company, Philips Singapore. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE: Established French beauty and cosmetic chain Sephora is due to open its first Southeast Asian store at Orchard Road, Singapore's prime shopping belt on December 19. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE: Singapore may be the worse-hit Southeast Asian country in the current economic crisis, but it could well be the first economy in the region to rebound, according to economic forecaster Thierry Apoteker. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE: Singapore shares closed 1.51 per cent lower on Thursday as optimism over a bailout of the ailing US auto industry faded, dealers said. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE: Established beauty and cosmetics chain Sephora, which has 1,000 stores in 24 countries, is due to open in Singapore. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE: 88 per cent of companies in Singapore are open to the idea of hiring senior contract finance professionals, according to a survey by global human resource consultancy, Robert Half International. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE : A study has found that high oil prices are impacting Southeast Asia's trade exports more than any other region in Asia. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE: Internet services giant Yahoo confirmed it has laid off several staff at its Singapore office on Wednesday afternoon. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE: Singapore's economic growth will be weak going into 2009 and its economy could bottom out in the third quarter, according to the World Bank. The city state is expected to be one of the worst-hit in the region, given its small and open economy. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE : Swedish kitchen appliance maker Electrolux has opened a new regional innovation design centre and headquarters in Singapore. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE: Nine in ten consumers in the Asia Pacific region, especially those who earn less than US$10,000 a year, said it was important to save money. - [Read more]

SINGAPORE : Singapore shares closed 3.83 per cent higher on Wednesday, boosted by hopes the ailing US auto sector may soon get a massive state bailout, dealers said. - [Read more]