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Singapore's Lighthouse Canton to invest over US$1.5b in India; eyes private credit, real estate
Singapore-based asset manager Lighthouse Canton plans to invest over US$1.5 billion in India in the next few years, with a focus on…
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Singapore's Lighthouse Canton to invest over US$1.5 billion in India; eyes private credit, real estate
Singapore-based asset manager Lighthouse Canton plans to invest over US$1.5 billion in India in the next few years, with a focus on…
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Indonesia’s Chandra Asri in talks with lenders to fund US$1 billion deal to buy Singapore’s Esso stations
Chandra Asri Pacific, an Indonesian energy and chemicals firm, is in talks with competing consortiums of lenders for loans to back its…
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Novartis Q3 operating income up 6% on new drug sales
Third-quarter operating income, adjusted for special items, rose to US$5.46 billion Swiss drugmaker Novartis, on a deal-making spree this…
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SGX ETF market hits record S$16.3 billion AUM in Q3 on strong gold, Reit demand
It records net inflows of S$736 million in the quarter, bringing the total to S$1.4 billion in the year to date The exchange-traded fund…
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HSBC is bullish on 2025 despite hit from Madoff provision
HSBC Holdings raised its profitability outlook for 2025 even as earnings slid following an unexpected US$1.1 billion provision tied to…
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Citigroup to tie up with Coinbase to boost digital payments for institutional clients
Citigroup and cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase plan to collaborate on digital asset payment solutions for the US bank’s institutional…
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Sunseap founder’s firm teams up with Chinese nuclear giant on Indonesian solar import project
Frank Phuan’s Equator Renewables Asia is set to import clean power from the Riau Islands into Singapore Equator Renewables Asia – a new…
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Banks not told of power plant initially to prevent information leak, court told
Hyflux had initially withheld from bank lenders certain information about the Tuaspring project including a power plant to protect its…
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Banks initially not told of power plant to prevent information leak, court told
Hyflux had initially withheld from bank lenders certain information about the Tuaspring project including a power plant to protect its…
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Banks initially not told of Tuaspring power plant to prevent information leak, court told
It was kept from lenders to protect company’s strategy from rivals, Olivia Lum’s counsel says Hyflux had initially withheld from bank…
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iX Biopharma proposes placement to raise gross proceeds of at least $5 million as it eyes US expansion
The placement price represents a discount of 9.7% to the volume weighted average price (VWAP) of S$0.1107 per share Mainboard-listed iX…
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iX Biopharma proposes placement to raise gross proceeds of at least S$5 million as it eyes US expansion
The placement price represents a discount of 9.7% to the volume weighted average price (VWAP) of S$0.1107 per share Mainboard-listed iX…
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Bill Gates says China is outspending the world on nuclear power
The Asian nation has a commanding lead in developing and manufacturing a wide range of green solutions In the race to develop the next…
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Kentucky Teacher Convicted of Having Sexual Contact with Her Teenage Student, Acquitted of Plotting Husband's Murder
The trial of a Kentucky woman accused of sexually abusing a student at a juvenile detention facility and then soliciting the teenager to…
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Indonesian bonds are top pick for Schroders on Purbaya, BI bets
Schroder Investment Management favours Indonesian bonds and the rupiah as its top picks in Asia, betting that government efforts to boost…
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Australian Cruise Passenger Dies After Being Left on Remote Island on Great Barrier Reef; Investigation Underway
Police are investigating the death of an elderly woman who died after failing to reboard a tourist cruise ship on Queensland's Lizard…
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Asia: Markets cool as Trump begins Japan visit
The buoyant mood has been defying tumultuous trade tensions between Beijing and Washington Asian markets opened slightly cooler on Tuesday…
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Green data centres: Singapore companies call for new inter-agency body, innovative financing
Other suggestions include setting up a central agency to procure green energy, similar to Singapore GasCo A new inter-agency body, a…
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Man Hid in Ex's Closet to Surprise Her with Flowers, Fatally Shot Her New Boyfriend After They Returned to Her Converse Home Together
A 23-year-old man in Texas is accused of hiding in his ex-girlfriend's home while she was out and then killing her new boyfriend when the…
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Foxconn to invest up to NT$42 billion in AI compute cluster, supercomputing centre
The investment will be made from December 2025 to December 2026 using its own funds Taiwan’s Foxconn said that its board of directors has…
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Philippine banks to lead profit growth among regional peers
Philippine banks, helped by robust loans, are poised to deliver the highest net interest income growth among South-east Asian lenders this…
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Singapore court orders Ron Sim’s LAC to return GNC stores, pay US$18.9 million in franchise dispute
The court finds that LAC had wrongfully terminated its agreement after ‘secretly’ preparing to rebrand all of the US health supplement…
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Singapore court orders Ron Sim’s LAC to hand over GNC store leases, pay US$18.9 million in franchise dispute
Court finds LAC had wrongfully terminated its agreement after ‘secretly’ preparing to rebrand the US health supplement retailer’s 54…