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Opinion: If your phone had feelings would you treat it differently? It could happen sooner than you think
Whether it’s the virtual assistants in our phones, the chatbots providing customer service for banks and clothing stores, or tools like ChatGPT and Claude making workloads a little lighter,...
10-year average return on Singapore Savings Bonds slides to 2.82%
THE 10-year average return for the latest tranche of Singapore Savings Bonds (SSBs) continued to fall, to 2.82 per cent, in line with rate cuts by the US Federal...
Sias urges independent professional inquiry into SingPost’s dismissal of senior executives
AN INDEPENDENT professional inquiry should be commissioned to look into the circumstances that led to the dismissal of three Singapore Post (SingPost) senior executives.This is in light of the...
Singapore shares rise on first trading day of 2025; STI up 0.4%
Across the broader market, losers beat gainers 284 to 246, with 812.8 million securities worth S$581.4 million changing hands SINGAPORE shares rose on Thursday (Jan 2) despite declines across...
Thai government says Bank of Thailand chair appointment won’t take too long
THAILAND’S government expects a selection panel to quickly conclude the process to pick a new chairman for the nation’s central bank after its previous nominee was deemed unsuitable for...
Thai economic uncertainty has increased, central bank minutes say
UNCERTAINTY around the Thai economy has significantly increased primarily due to the unclear impact of possible US economic policies, minutes of the Bank of Thailand’s (BOT) Dec 18 monetary...
Malaysia grants WeChat, TikTok licences to operate under new law
MALAYSIA’S communications regulator said it granted Tencent’s WeChat and ByteDance’s TikTok licences to operate in the country under a new social media law, but that some other platforms had...
Musk’s X, Google yet to apply for Malaysia’s new social media license
ELON Musk’s X and Alphabet’s Google, which operates the video streaming platform YouTube, have not applied for a social media operating license under Malaysia’s new law which kicked in...
MAS review group exploring use of seed capital for equities market: Gan Kim Yong
The Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) equities market review group is studying how to make optimum use of seed capital to attract more commercial capital.This will ensure that government...
RHB cuts IReit target to S$0.34; flags potential privatisation on further unit price declines
RHB Research has lowered its target price on IReit Global to S$0.34 from S$0.40 previously, as it expects the real estate investment trust’s (Reit) near-term distribution per unit (DPU)...
