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<p>EAGLE Hospitality Trust (EHT) on Sunday night said it is still "premature" to appoint its own expert to separately evaluate the costs of the maintenance of the Queen Mary floating hotel at this stage.</p>

<p>SINGAPORE shares started the week lower, despite record-breaking sessions in the US on Friday night. The Straits Times Index lost 5.97 points or 0.18 per cent to 3,258.33 as at 9.06am.</p>

THE following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their securities on Monday:

<p>MERCEDES-BENZ dealer Jardine Cycle &amp; Carriage&nbsp;(Jardine C&amp;C) is looking to privatise its Malaysian arm Cycle &amp; Carriage Bintang Berhad (CCB) for RM90.6 million (S$29.8 million), or RM2.20 per share, the firm said in a bourse filing on Monday.</p>

<p>DBS Group’s net profit for its third quarter climbed 15 per cent, boosted by loan growth, record fee income and higher trading gains, it said on Monday.</p>

<p>SUSTAINABILITY need not be at odds with profitability, and it can be a good catalyst for new ideas and business opportunities, a senior official from Enterprise Singapore (ESG) has suggested.</p>

<p>KEVIN Kiprovski had a lofty title, "Expeditions Associate", and a fun job - he got to demo Google virtual reality gear to young students. When visiting schools, he wore a grey T-shirt with a cartoon whale and a Google logo.</p>

<p>AMID mounting geopolitical tensions and sluggish growth, Singapore's richest are getting richer, generating their wealth from feeding the robust demand for goods and services of Asia's growing middle class.</p>

<p>THE European Union-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (EUSFTA) has received approval from the Council of the European Union, Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations S Iswaran and European Commissioner-Designate for Trade Phil Hogan announced at the EUSFTA Gala Dinner in Singapore on Friday night.</p>

<p>A GREEN initiative to manage ships' sulphur emissions will be enhanced to focus on decarbonisation for the next five years. This was just one among a slew of measures announced by Singapore's shipping authority to ready ship owners and operators for the future.</p>