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<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>

<p>TEMASEK International has appointed Chia Song Hwee as deputy chief executive officer with effect from Jan 1, 2020, CEO Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara announced on Friday.</p>

<p>SINGAPORE'S largest bank DBS will focus on bolt-on acquisitions - deals valued at about 5 per cent of its market cap - and shy away from large buys that distract it from "the battleground of the future".</p>

<p>Meanwhile, latest industrial production numbers showed Singapore's factory output growth easing year-on-year again in both the overall electronics cluster and the key semiconductor segment. In September, the electronics cluster registered a 9.6 per cent year-on-year decline, while output from semiconductors fell 13 per cent versus the previous...

<p>THERE is a story that DBS chief Piyush Gupta likes to tell, and it goes like this: in 2012, DBS ATMs in the Bugis area were hit by a card skimming fraud that resulted in about a million bucks in unauthorised withdrawals.</p>

<p>ELECTRONICS manufacturing services firm Venture Corp delivered a 5.5 per cent rise in net profit for the third quarter ended Sept 30, despite the headwinds from the US-China trade war, Brexit and currency volatility.</p>

<p>MAINBOARD-LISTED developer United Industrial Corp (UIC) said on Friday that it could take a year to figure out how to increase income from the consolidated Marina Mandarin hotel and shopping complex, even as third-quarter earnings slipped.</p>

<p>FEWER settlements at the Australia 108 mega project in Melbourne have put a dent in Aspial Corp's third-quarter revenue, even as the leveraged property developer counts on fresh cash from handovers to improve its debt profile.</p>

<p>HRNETGROUP's third-quarter net profit declined 4.9 per cent to S$12 million from S$12.6 million a year ago, the mainboard-listed firm said in a bourse filing on Friday morning.</p>

<p>BEST World International, the mainboard-listed skincare pro-duct company that is being probed by the Singapore Exchange (SGX) over its sales model, on Friday posted a slide in third-quarter earnings that it attributed to the lack of the one-time "other operating income" in the year prior.</p>