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The SingHealth Group has a vacancy for a senior Manager for its Group Communications portfolio.
Applicants must be senior communications professionals ready to be a member of the group’s dynamic team tasked to build up the profile of SingHealth in its pursuit of excellence in patient care, research and education.
The job involves overseeing a team responsible [...]

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 [...]

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Singapore has always held that an economically vibrant and successful China is good for Singapore and a major plus for Asia. China’s rapid economic expansion is a key catalyst for growth in Asia.’
So said Singapore’s President S R Nathan at the state banquet at the Istana on Nov 11 to honour President Hu Jintao who [...]

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 [...]

The following is a post created many years ago by Xingrencha’s sister, Daffydil, in memory of their dead father. The links to that post in English followed by a Chinese translation done by their cousin in Putien can be found under the Family links in the right sidebar of this website.
As some surfers in China [...]

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 [...]

1940 picture: Lam Soong Kee and Lam Ji Chiew (in Chinese jackets) with their families in Singapore

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 [...]

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While doing my random surfing of favourite blogs, I came across a feisty post putting up a strong defence of the rights of new immigrants in Singapore, in this particular instance “a Chinese Chinese” woman who married a Singapore man.
The post I’m reproducing (below) as well as some of the most fantastically sensitive writing in blogosphere can be [...]

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 [...]

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It was something of a pleasant surprise to learn that a Singapore Permanent Resident who hailed from China took part in the People’s Republic of China’s 60th National Day parade on Oct 1, as part of the women’s militia contingent.
Zhang Yuanyuan (left centre) now 28, apparently came to Singapore to study and work in 2003 and became a PR two years [...]

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As today is the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), it is fitting to post  a snippet about the Chinese patriotic film “Jian Guo Da Ye” or “The Founding of A Republic”.
Released across China last month, the blockbuster, especially in terms of the number of Chinese stars appearing in it [...]