For the first time, three state properties in central Singapore will be leased out to private collectors to display their artworks, and about a dozen collectors from Southeast Asia have shown interest in the premises. The former Catholic High School – a four-storey building in Singapore's central arts district along Queen Street – is getting a facelift, together with two other century-old army...
Singapore is set to keep its position as the world’s top bunkering port, with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) forecasting a record full-year sales volume of 33 to 35 million tonnes this year. According to Transport Minister Raymond Lim, a total of 26.4 million tonnes of bunkers were lifted between January and September 2008, an increase of 12 percent compared to the same period in...
The Jewel Box at Mount Faber celebrated the opening of its new extension with much fanfare on Monday night. It is not just any ordinary extension to the main building which houses the cable car station opposite the resort island of Sentosa. The new structure, a restaurant, utilises green architectural concepts. That is why the three mature Angsana trees in the area were not chopped down and were instead...
Another former school has been made available for use by a commercial or international school to help ease demand for places. The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) will launch a public tender for the former Seh Chuan High School off Upper Bukit Timah Road on Wednesday. The former Seh Chuan High School was last used by the Jurong Gardens School, run by the Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of...
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has awarded the tender for the hotel site at Kallang Road and Jellicoe Road to Citywide Land. The company submitted the sole bid for the site at S$51 million. The site has an area of 4,219.2 square metres and a maximum permissible gross floor area of 18,986 square metres. URA said the site is conveniently located at the fringe of the city and situated above...
Ruses are now rife; foreign nationals the main targets WHEN factory worker Zhang Wenfang and his five friends found a five-room Housing & Development Board (HDB) flat in Jurong West that they liked, they paid the property agent $9,300 - six months' rent. But, when they tried to move into the flat on July 1, they found it locked. "We had trouble contacting our agent; he didn't return our calls. I...
The Urban Redevelopment Authority has awarded the tender for an industrial site at Kallang Pudding Road to Orion-Four Development. Orion-Four submitted the sole bid of S$10.8 million for the site which has an area of 5,743.2 square metres. The site was launched for public tender on September 3 and the tender closed on October 7. It was offered for sale on a 60-year lease. Source : Channel NewsAsia - 10...
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has closed the tender for a hotel site at Kallang Road and Jellicoe Road, with only one bid received. Citywide Land tendered the sole bid of S$51 million for the site which has an area of 4,219.2 square metres and a maximum permissible gross floor area of 18,986 square metres. The site was launched for public tender in August. It was originally on the reserve list...
Parkway Life Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) has announced it will revise annual rent for its Singapore hospital properties upwards by 6.25 per cent. These properties include Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Gleneagles Hospital and East Shore Hospital, and were leased to Parkway Hospitals Singapore for a term of 15 years from 2007. Parkway Trust Management said the properties are the main contributor to the...
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