investment

(Oct 23): A client of mine was recently interested in a mutual fund that invests in Asian equities. It had a great investment track record and a solid manager; his main reservation was that it was denominated in British pounds (GBP). Given the continuing

SINGAPORE (Oct 20): Omron Asia Pacific’s new Automation Centre (ATC) at Alexandra Technopark offers a glimpse into the future of manufacturing: one where production lines without conveyer belts can churn out customised products as quickly as generic goo

JAKARTA (Oct 17): Indonesia will turn to private investors for the hundreds of billions of dollars in investment needed to develop the archipelago’s infrastructure and natural resources, President Joko Widodo said, brushing off claims he was increasingl

SINGAPORE (Oct 16): Trendlines Medical Singapore, a 76.43%-owned subsidiary of Catalist-listed Israeli company The Trendlines Group, has made its first investment by committing a total of US$60,000 ($81,150) to a medical device start-up, InterVaal.

BANGKOK (Sept 28): Thailand’s military government is looking to start construction of projects under a 1.5 trillion baht ($61.2 billion) investment plan before the country’s possible return to democracy late next year.

SINGAPORE (Sept 19): Oil and gas (O&G), exploration and production company Loyz Energy is proposing to change its name to CWX Global Limited, given the new business direction it is intending to undertake.

SINGAPORE (Sept 5): A total of 15,855 new businesses were formed in Singapore over the second quarter of 2017 alone, according to data from the Singapore Commercial Credit Bureau (SCCB) as presented in Hawksford Singapore’s latest research report, Singa

SINGAPORE (Aug 29): Global Logistic Properties (GLP) has signed an agreement to sell four of its properties in Japan for JPY51.6 billion, or roughly US$472 million based on the exchange rate as of Aug 21, to GLP J-REIT as part of its capital recycling str

SINGAPORE (Aug 4): SunMoon Food Company says Tmall has invested US$300 million ($407 million) in China’s Shanghai Yiguo E-Commerce, the single largest indirect shareholder of SunMoon with a 51% stake.

SINGAPORE (July 26): Construction and road maintenance company OKP Holdings says its wholly-owned subsidiary, Or Kim Peow Contractors, has agreed to purchase a building at 7 Woodlands Industrial Park E2 from Advance-Tec Engineering for $2.2 million for in