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(Source: Asia Tech News) New information from the International Finance Corporation and the World Bank confirms what we’ve been talking about on this blog for some time now. Singapore is one of the friendliest environments on the planet for entrepreneurs. The latest Doing Business report ranks Singapore at the top of its ‘ease of doing business’ rankings for the sixth …

Imagining Asia 2020: Asia is growing. But how are businesses recognizing these changes? Tan Su Shan, Group Head of Wealth Management at DBS Bank, shares how businesses have evolved to cater to the Asia giant

SINGAPORE–Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and older workers are main beneficiaries of the country’s 2012 budget, which was formulated to restructure and upgrade the local economy while building an “inclusive society”. Revealed by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Tharman Shanmugaratnam on Friday, this year’s budget showed that Singapore’s economy expanded by 4.9 percent in 2011. This figure was within …