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Malaysia’s ban on raw rare earths exports remains despite US deal, trade minister says
[KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia will maintain a ban on the export of raw rare earths to protect its domestic resources, despite signing a critical minerals deal with the United States...
Data centres, EVs and renewables spur Singapore to ‘future-proof’ its grid: Tan See Leng
The intermittency of solar and wind power introduces new operational challenges for the grid[SINGAPORE] Keeping Singapore’s lights on is set to get more complex – with the Republic’s plans...
Temasek-backed consortium to take China’s ANE private at HK$14.33 billion valuation
[SINGAPORE/HONG KONG] ANE (Cayman) said on Tuesday (Oct 28) a consortium comprising its largest shareholder, Singapore’s Temasek Holdings, Centurium Capital, and True Light have offered to take it private...
First Reit’s 9-month distributable income falls 6.1% to S$34.8 million
Its DPU for period is S$0.0165, a 7.3% decline from same period in the prior year[SINGAPORE] The manager of First Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) reported a 6.1 per...
Indonesia’s Chandra Asri in talks with lenders to fund US$1 billion deal to buy Singapore’s Esso stations
[JAKARTA] Chandra Asri Pacific, an Indonesian energy and chemicals firm, is in talks with competing consortiums of lenders for loans to back its US$1 billion purchase of Esso-branded service...
Seatrium bags S$170 million worth of new contract wins ahead of Q3 results
[SINGAPORE] Seatrium on Tuesday (Oct 28) announced that it has clinched S$170 million worth of new repair and upgrade contracts comprising major cruise, leisure and naval vessel projects.All works...
Cordlife submits information to MOH by extended deadline it was given
[SINGAPORE] Embattled cord blood bank Cordlife announced on Monday (Oct 27) that it had submitted on the same day the necessary written representations to the Ministry of Health (MOH)...
Deutsche Bank’s DWS joins rivals in setting up Abu Dhabi office
It aims to be the preferred asset manager for institutional investors ploughing money into Europe, including Germany[FRANKFURT] Deutsche Bank’s investment arm DWS Group is opening an office in Abu...
Eurozone to get hard data on tariff damage as ECB sets rates
Analysts expect the bloc to maintain the minimal 0.1% expansion it managed in the three months to June[FRANKFURT] Europe will get a rigorous economic health-check this week, helping gauge...
South Korea faces property ‘ticking bomb’ as Lee backs BOK hold
[SEOUL] South Korean President Lee Jae-myung warned that the country’s property market is a bubble on the point of bursting, as he backed the Bank of Korea’s (BOK) decision...
