News about Singapore

  PETALING JAYA (Nov 24): Talks abound about an unspecified corporate exercise in the works at IOI Properties Group Bhd – with Maybank Investment Bank Bhd said to have an important role in the exercise, reported The Edge Malaysia.

  KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 23): Malaysia Airlines Bhd said about 13,000 booked passengers will be affected by the temporary suspension of FlyFirefly Sdn Bhd’s operations into Singapore from Dec 1, following the city state’s plans to move all turboprop flights from Changi Airport to Seletar Airport.

JOHOR BAHRU (Nov 12): Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng (pictured) has reassured that despite the change of government in Putrajaya, many development projects in Johor such as the Johor Bahru-Singapore Rapid Transit System (RTS) Link, would be carried out, reported The Star today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 31): Malaysia still maintains the right to review the price of water sold to Singapore under the Water Agreement 1961 and 1962, said Deputy Foreign Minister Datuk Marzuki Yahya.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 23): Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (pictured) told the Straits Times today that the republic’s relations with Malaysia are stable, and ties with Jakarta are good.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 22): The bulk of foreigners will not be allowed to buy homes (unless they are newly built apartments) in the rugby mad country starting from today.

PETALING JAYA (Oct 18): Singapore's new guidelines on the size of apartments that can be built per development threaten to erode profit margins further as it reduces the number of shoe-box units in a development, reported Reuters.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 17): Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the Causeway Link will look 'strange' if the crooked bridge project between Malaysia and Singapore is revived.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 17): Economic Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali said today that Malaysia needs to prioritise its infrastructure projects, because the country's fiscal situation is not good.

The IBS (Industrialised Building System) has long been practised in sustainable developments such as those found in Germany, France, Denmark and Singapore.