Let's Talk, Singapore

With the many issues that surfaced between tenants and landlords due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the SG Tenants United For Fairness (SGTUFF) group was formalised as a cooperative, with more than 740 business owners as members. Keson Lim, Member of Singapore Tenants United for Fairness’ (SGTUFF) 1st Committee of Management shares how an organisation like SGTUFF aims to help business owners from the retail, F&B and services sectors, and how to better handle their tenants during this pandemic. 

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Audrey Goh, Senior cross-asset strategist, Wealth management Group, Standard Chartered Bank discusses why the Fed is moving the time frame on rate hikes and how that will move the USD.

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Peter Foreman, Area Director of Sales and Distribution, Marriott International Singapore, Malaysia and Maldives, shares the challenges Marriott International faced during the pandemic and how they overcame these hurdles by incorporating different initiatives. 

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Singapore has a new tech unicorn in town. Online car marketplace Carro raised $360 million in a Series C funding round led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2, and says the latest capital takes the company across the $1 billion mark. And now the company is now eyeing a US IPO in the coming months. Claudia Chong, Tech Journalist, for Garage by The Business Times, shares more details.

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Washington Report Ep 2: Deciphering G7's challenge to China's Belt and Road initiative

10:09 mins

Synopsis: Every Monday, The Straits Times' US bureau chief Nirmal Ghosh analyses the latest developments in the country he is based in, with Money FM 89.3's Elliott Danker.

They chat about the following:

1. G7's challenge to China's multi-trillion-dollar Belt and Road initiative (0:47)
2. Making sense of G7 Summit climate change plans (2:35)
3. Explicit language covering China this time round, in G-7 final communique (5:00)
4. Introduction of five bills aimed at limiting the power held by Big Tech companies in the US (6:20)

Produced by: The Breakfast Huddle, Money FM 89.3, Ernest Luis

Edited by: Dan Koh

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Straits Times’ Regional Correspondent, Leslie Lopez gives his analysis on Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin's four-phase, post-pandemic exit plan, whether Indonesia’s latest import and export numbers suggest a recovery is underway in Southeast Asia’s largest economy and how effective a closed-door ASEAN meeting on Myanmar might be.

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The G7 Summit came into an agreement regarding the Global Minimum Tax plan which aims to end corporate tax cutting by some multinational businesses. Patrick Cooke, Managing Editor for Middle East and Asia, Oxford Business Group, discusses more about the new minimum tax plan and how it will impact developing nations' Covid-19 recovery plans. 

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Mitul Kotecha, Chief emerging market Asia and Europe strategist, TD Securities, shares how rising inflation and a tightening jobs market will move the needle on rate hike timelines.

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Exchange rates can have a huge impact on the bottom line of your business. Get your questions answered by an OFX currency expert who can help you make informed decisions when moving money globally. In this edition, Sean Wee, Head of Singapore, OFX answers all your questions. 

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Many of us are familiar with the meat industry’s impact on the environment, but current levels of fishing are harming our oceans. To counter this, leading plant-based food company, OmniFoods have launched a range of plant-based seafood. Rhianne Lovell-Boland speaks to David Yeung, Founder & CEO of OmniFoods who shares more on why making more sustainable seafood choices is necessary, how it's better for our health, and how the plant-based movement is here to stay.

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