Let’s level the playing field for listed firms

Investors in Bermuda-registered firms listed here now get less protection

Faith groups use English to draw devotees

Changing times have forced religious leaders in traditionally non-English-speaking faith groups to reconsider how best to reach new devotees, many of whom are young and English-speaking.

Contradiction in terms

Few could have foreseen the paradox presented by capitalism with Chinese characteristics

Changes in portraits yield a telling story

Displaying and carrying huge portraits of the great and the noble has long been an integral tradition of the elaborate celebrations of National Day holidays in communist countries.

Budding tycoon sets sights on big league

Former hairstylist has goals for Birmingham City

Chongqing on the mend after crackdown on criminal gangs

Chongqing has long been known for three characteristics - its mountainous landscape, attractive women and spicy cuisine. Unfortunately, in recent years, a fourth item could be added to the list - organised crime.

Analysts need to get real

While analysts have to rely on numbers, they also have an obligation to peer beyond their spreadsheets to take in the real operating circumstances of each company. As one wit put it, if you torture numbers long enough, they will give you the answers that you are looking for. And sometimes these answers can cause unnecessary alarm.

Australia singer asked Singapore Christians to step up evangelism

Well-known Australian Christian singer Roma Waterman urged Singapore Christians to step up evangelism during a performance at The City Church last Saturday.

She quoted in the Christian Post as saying:

“It is important that believers live with the perspective of eternity and share the Good News at the risk of offending some people rather than being polite to everyone and letting them go to hell.”

Those fucking self centred, self righteous and selfish christians go to hell.

Qingdao strives to boost economy beyond tourism

Qingdao is one of the mainland’s tourist Meccas, with tens of millions of visitors crammed on to the Shandong city’s sandy white beaches every year. But the city government believes its future is about much more than tourism.

Hong Kong's luxury living draws mainland Chinese

Mainland Chinese once fled to the slums of Hong Kong’s Kowloon to escape poverty, war and communism but many mainlanders in the district these days are seeking swimming pools and harbour views.

Why the pain lingers for China and Japan

Young Chinese "comfort women", or sex slaves, with Japanese soldiers.

The atrocities of war, including the sufferings of ‘comfort women’, are not forgotten

Is your financial adviser really up to the job?

And that is the moral of the past year: when you find an adviser you think you can trust, check and check again.

Will SingTel keep its word on not charging consumers more?

Clearly, SingTel is now putting all its eggs in one basket and banking on sports to win over a still-sceptical public. All eyes will now be on whether it remains true to its word that consumers won’t have to pay more to watch sports than what they are currently forking out now.

Tycoon’s kids lose appeal in dispute over fortune

The children of the first wife of Singapore Crocodile Farm founder Tan Gna Chua failed yesterday in their final appeal to declare their father’s second marriage invalid.

Hengyang to be first Chinese firm to list on Catalist

Hengyang Petrochemical Logistics is on its way to become the first Chinese firm to list on the Catalist board.

It is offering 18 million new invitation shares at 38 cents apiece, and will be sponsored by CIMB Bank Berhad, Singapore Branch.

Feisty exchange at insider trading court case

The court hearing on the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s case against a former employee of WBL Corp resumed yesterday, starting with the cross-examination of an expert witness for MAS.

Consortium bids to snap up Sincere for $112.7m

Singapore’s largest watch retailer Sincere Watch has received a $112.7 million cash offer from a consortium largely made up of a unit of luxury group LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, a private equity arm of Standard Chartered, and former owner Tay Liam Wee.

Companies lacking in cash management

Most still focused on managing inventory rather than ways to release cash: survey

Oei Hong Leong settles suit with Citi

Business tycoon Oei Hong Leong has settled his multi-million-dollar lawsuit with Citigroup ‘amicably’ and says he will continue to work with the bank again.

Luxury brands doing brisk business in China

But wealth boom widens income gap further