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 [...]

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 [...]

Few Chinese born overseas and growing up in the 1950s to the 1970s would back then dream of reclaiming their cultural and other heritage. Because China was poor and Communist. It’s still Communist but it’s no longer poor as defined by the usual economic yardsticks such as GDP, savings rate and foreign reserves.
Hence many Chinese — who [...]

The Ascott Group (Ascott) won six accolades from this year’s Business Traveller Awards – for the Asia-Pacific and the UK – it was announced at the award presentation lunch in Hongkong today.  
Ascott has been voted the ‘Best Serviced Residence Brand’ for the 6th year running by readers of Business Traveller Asia-Pacific magazine.
The magazine’s readers also chose Ascott Bangkok Sathorn as the ‘Best Serviced [...]

This is another guest post, this time by Peggy Tan, granddaughter of Tan Kah Kee (1874-1961), well-known both in Singapore and China – especially in Xiamen, Southern China — as an entrepreneur, philanthropist and educationist par excellence.
She runs Hagley & Hoyle, an advertising and graphics house with offices in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. She is passionate [...]

This is a guest post. Today’s guest is Ismail Kassim, an ex-journalist of 25 years standing with the Singapore Straits Times. He published A Reporter’s Memoir – No Hard Feelings in April 2008.
Describing his efforts to learn Chinese,  Ismail said: “For me, for decades the name Keats conjures up images of odes, Grecian urns and all things beautiful. [...]

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 [...]