Restrictive immigration policies in the West including US, UK, Australia and Europe may prove to be beneficial to immigrant friendly nations such as Singapore.
The tiny island state of Asia has been garnering the global business and investor community’s attention a little more increasingly in the recent times because of its phenomenal growth rate when the rest of the world is still grappling to hold on to nominal growth after the economic rebound. While governments around the world are [...]
The global economy is quickly recovering from the financial turbulence and Asia is leading the world in the recovery. Asian economies keen on seizing the momentum are taking every effort to establish market synergies. The lesson learnt during the crisis has underpinned the significance of building a strong intra regional market through economic cooperation and [...]
HSBC Small Business Confidence Monitor, which was released recently, revealed that the confidence levels of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore grew 19 points from the last quarter of 2009 to 136 points. Singapore demonstrated the highest leap in confidence among other Asian countries surveyed.
Small Business Confidence Monitor is the largest international survey of [...]
The revival of industrial production and gradual rebounding of international trade flow to the pre crisis level is deemed as sign of overall global economic recovery and it heralds a spirit of optimism among enterprises. A prominent trend which is encouraging the Singapore based trading businesses is that the Asian economies are leading the rest [...]
In a move to further liberalize its legal sector, the Singapore authorities have proposed to ease the entry requirements for foreign lawyers to practise corporate law in the city-state.
The Korean government has doubled the investment requirement for foreigners who wish to set up a business in the Republic of Korea under the D-8 investment visa.