Singapore

Lower income families, middle income earners and SME Businesses biggest winners in this year's budget.

Singapore businesses will be allowed to deduct 400% of their expenditures from their taxable income.

VT iDirect, ST Engineering's US Subsidiary, will provide satellite Ground Network Infrastructure and end-user terminal technology for Inmarsat's forthcoming Global Xpress service.

But profit for fourth quarter last year posted an 11% quarter-on-quarter decrease.

Real estate investment volume in Singapore accounted for 31% of Asia's total volume for the last quarter of 2010.

If trade grows by 1 per cent over  the government forecast of 8 to 10 %, SIngapore will have made it into the elte club of nations whose trade exceeds US$1tn.

Singapore’s total trade rose by 21 per cent in 2010 after a decline of 19 per cent in 2009.

The IR-tourism sector, healthy FDI and generous FY2011 budget may push the economic growth on the higher end of the official 4 to 6 % forecast.

Both Singapore and Ontario target of becoming centers for water technologies that drive innovations through research, testing and application of emerging technologies.

SGX and ASX made changes to their merger proposals in a bid to boost the deal's chances of getting regulatory approval in Australia.

Singapore Airlines has accepted the Ministry of Manpower's proposal to use the 'effective mid-point' of the pilots' salary band as the base salary for rehired pilots.

The succesful transaction of Capital Square should help to lift property valuation in the vicinity, said DBS.

AEW, the seller, has carried out an extensive refurbishment by increasing its NLA by about 20 percent.

Traffic on low cost carriers grew 27% compared to a year ago.

But its not all good news, with 41% of companies having no plans to hire and 6% planning to fire staff this quarter.

The better-than-expected y-o-y growth was led by electronics and pharmaceuticals.