SINGAPORE, March 20 - Fitch Ratings said on Friday economic contractions in trade-dependent Singapore and Hong Kong could approach double digits in 2009 under its revised forecasts, but their sovereign ratings would not be affected....
SINGAPORE, March 14 - The Singapore government is taking legal action against a senior editor of the Wall Street Journal, accusing her of being in contempt of court for three articles published last year, the...
SINGAPORE, March 13 - Marine fuel sales in Singapore fell 11.5 percent in February, month-on-month, after rising 10 percent in January, government data showed on Friday. Bunker sales in the world's top bunker port fell...
SINGAPORE, March 4 - Singapore's trade-dependent economy could shrink as much as 8 percent this year as exports have contracted by more than expected, Lee Kuan Yew, the country's most influential minister, told Reuters on...
SINGAPORE, March 2 - Exxon Mobil Corp <XOM.N> said on Monday it has shut down a couple of units in its refinery and chemical plant in Singapore for six weeks of planned maintenance. "We have...
SINGAPORE, Feb 28 - Singapore suffered a 12.9 percent drop in visitor arrivals in January from a year ago as the global downturn and a sharp economic slowdown in Asia hurt tourism. The fall in...
SINGAPORE, Feb 28 - Singapore's trade-dependent economy could shrink by 8 percent this year, much worse than the government's forecast of a contraction of 2-5 percent, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on CNBC. "Can...
SINGAPORE, Feb 26 - Singapore issued revised GDP estimates for 2008 on Thursday which showed the economy contracted by 16.4 percent in the fourth quarter on an annualised, seasonally adjusted quarter-on-quarter basis. The Singapore economy...
SINGAPORE, Feb 25 - Former Reliance Singapore trading head Michael Ng will soon join Chinese firm Kangqi Oil Pte Ltd, parting ways with one of the world's top refiners, traders said on Wednesday. Veteran trader...
SINGAPORE, Feb 25 - Singapore will lower the threshold on unsecured loans from banks for individuals to give poorer people greater access to credit, the central bank said on Wednesday. Effective March 1, the minimum...