Despite trade tensions and other global uncertainties slowing down the economy to levels last seen a decade ago, investments into the country seem to have held steady so far. Singapore attracted almost S$8.1 billion in fixed asset investment (FAI) commitments during the first six months of 2019, according to figures from the Economic Development Board (EDB) released as part of the second-quarter...
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For the fourth consecutive year, Singapore has been ranked the world's most expensive city for expatriates to live in, in a survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The Worldwide Cost of Living 2017 report listed five Asian cities in its top six, including Hong Kong, Tokyo, Osaka and Seoul. The exception was Switzerland's Zurich, which was ranked third. Geneva, Paris, New York and Copenhagen...
Singapore was ranked as the best place to live in Asia for expatriates and 25th best in the world in the 19th Quality of Living survey by consulting firm Mercer's released on Tuesday (Mar 14). Vienna, Austria's grand capital on the Danube river, was ranked first for the eighth year in a row, while Baghdad is again considered the worst place to live. Two Japanese cities, Tokyo and Kobe, were the next...
For the third year running, Singapore is the world’s most expensive city in the world for expatriates, though Zurich and Hong Kong are a very close joint second, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Singapore has a score of 116, just ahead of Zurich and Hong Kong’s 114, in the EIU’s latest Worldwide Cost of Living report, a twice-yearly survey that compares more than 400 individual...
The Republic has been ranked as the fourth-most expensive city for expatriates to live in, according to a study conducted by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI). Caracas in Venezuela was placed as the most expensive city for expatriates, based on 2013 data, the study, which was released on Friday (Nov 27), showed. Under the ACI's annual index that compares cost of living for 103 major world...
Singapore dropped four positions to seventh place in the Global Liveable Cities Index, according to the results of a study released on Thursday (Nov 26). The index is a ranking of the world's most liveable cities, compiled by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) at National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Singapore performed strongly in economic vibrancy and...
Even as more Singaporeans are getting married and having babies, the Republic’s population grew at its slowest in a decade, rising 1.2 per cent to reach 5.54 million in June. The statistics, released on Wednesday (Sep 30) by the National Population and Talent Division (NPTD) in its annual Population in Brief report, also showed that the number of citizens rose to 3.38 million, through births and...
Despite weaknesses in areas such as cost of living and immigration laws pertaining to employment of foreign labour, Singapore maintained its third position in an annual world competitiveness ranking by Swiss business school IMD. The Republic was leapfrogged by Hong Kong, who ranked second after coming in fourth last year. Switzerland went the opposite direction, falling two places from second. The...
The Republic has been ranked the top city in Asia in the Business of Cities study by global real estate firm JLL and The Business of Cities Group, a London-based intelligence and strategy firm. It analyses more than 200 globally-recognised studies of city performance worldwide, looking at data such as business and finance, economic growth, quality of life, and a city’s brand, reputation and influence...
Singapore retains its lead in the transportation and infrastructure indicator in the latest PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) study on global cities, which helped it edge into third position overall behind London and New York. "The city-state climbs four spots to third place and also finishes first in the two areas it is well-known for - transportation and infrastructure and ease of doing business," Bob...