Won’t you hate to be in the shoes of Mr Liew Mun Leong (left), the usually stern-faced boss of the CapitaLand Group which on Jan 18, 2010 announced that CapitaLand is acquiring a 100 per cent stake in property investment holding company Orient Overseas Developments for a ginormous US$2.2 billion (S$3.06 billion).
Cheers all round as both Mr Liew [...]

One small step for Singapore, one giant step for CapitaLand: that is what it means when its indirect wholly owned subsidiary CapitaLand China Holdings (CCH) acquires a 100 per cent stake in property investment holding company Orient Overseas Developments for a ginormous US$2.2 billion (S$3.06 billion).
Under this deal, announced on Monday, Jan 18, CCH will acquire a [...]

@ is usually a short form for “at” but in the case of @ Gallery Suites boutique hotel housed in a 1933 fully restored heritage building on Hengshan Lu (known during the early concession period as the “Champs Elysees of Shanghai”), “@” stands for “art”.
The 39-suite hotel (each suite is larger than 50 sq m) opened in March 2009. [...]

SGX-listed CapitaLand’s wholly-owned serviced residence business unit, The Ascott Limited (Ascott), is celebrating the opening of its fifth serviced residence — Ascott Raffles City Beijing –in Beijing with special promotional rates from RMB 888 per day for a one-bedroom premier apartment to RMB 1,588 per day for a two-bedroom executive apartment.
This is the first time [...]

SGX-listed Asia Pacific Breweries has made fresh management appointments at its brewing assets in China.
As of Nov 16, APB’s Shanghai Asia Pacific Brewery Co. Ltd has been given a new general manager.

Mr Samson Wong — who has more than 11 years’ experience in the brewing industry holding various positions in Hong Kong and Macau — will be responsible for [...]

Pressure on the People’s Republic of China to let the yuan rise is coming from all directions, says StanChart, though “poor export numbers, sluggish private investment growth, and low inflation provide little incentive for China to do anything at this point.
This is based on a Dow Jones “flash” on the StanChart view.
However, StanChart expects [...]

China is seldom out of the headlines, whether in Singapore or elsewhere. This has been particularly so this week in Singapore, what with China President Hu Jintao on a state visit to the island city, his first since he assumed China’s highest office in 2003.
Further, there is the excitement created by the impending arrival of a pair of precious [...]

On Nov 5, Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew (部长内阁资政李光耀  )  spoke in a dialogue on the “Future of Global Business” at the Visa Payments Forum held in Singapore.
In response to a question about what changes the World Bank and IMF needed to make, he said that one major adjustment would be to give more say [...]

Shanghai Singapore Business Association – Singapore Club, Shanghai (SSBA-SCS) will host its annual Business Forum 2009 with SingCham China and Shanghai House of Entrepreneurs (SHEN)* on Nov 27 at the Shangri-La Hotel Ballroom in Pudong. 
The forum, themed China – The Next Leap, will bring together prominent leaders from various industries to share their insights on [...]

Is running a small business in China viable for lone Singaporean operators?
Judging by the longevity of Frankie’s Place in Shanghai, it is possible for Singaporeans to go it alone and still survive the fast paced changes in China, especially Shanghai.
Frankie’s Place — which moved five times and continues to have a faithful following –  has [...]

Lee Chiu San, a former journalist, found his true calling selling cars. In this guest post, he describes his recent business-cum-pleasure trip to China and gives his take on government efforts to turn Chinese Singaporeans into proficient Mandarin speakers.
“My friend had invested in a venture in Zhengzhou, main city of Henan province, and asked me to [...]

This is something of a wake-up call for educated Singaporeans who, though unemployed, still turn up their noses at the possibility or prospect of working in China! Younger Singaporeans about to graduate from tertiary institutes should equally take note.
I refer to the just-over recruitment fair organised by the North American Chinese Scholars International Exchange Center which [...]

CapitaLand, Singapore’s largest property company, will hive off its S$20.3 billion (abt RM100 billion) retail portfolio into a separate unit, and then list it on the Singapore Exchange via an initial public offering (IPO).
Its retail arm, CapitaLand Retail, will be renamed CapitaMalls Asia (CMA), with a Pan-Asian portfolio of 86 retail properties – with 50 of them in [...]

Singapore brand consultancy, A S Louken, with a portfolio of 300 clients, is China-bound, according to its founder and CEO, Luke Lim, in an interview published in the Straits Times on Sep 9.
Said Mr Lim: “We already have clients and partners in China, so naturally we should have a base there. In fact, we are intending to [...]

The Les Suites family of Les Suites Taipei Da-An and Les Suites Taipei Ching-Cheng has added a new member. It is Les Suites Orient, a new boutique hotel, opening in Shanghai in October. 
Centrally located on the world famous Bund, Les Suites Orient offers a panoramic view of the Huangpu River, Pudong and Yu Yuan. At 23 stories, the hotel [...]