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Singapore, is the best Asian city. (Photo: AFP) (14 March)   Vienna is the best city in the world while Baghdad is the worst. SINGAPORE topped an international survey of the best cities in Asia for expatriates while the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka was named the worst. Japan took all the other spots in the Asian top five, with... 

(10 Mar) - Singapore's Minister for Finance Tharman Shanmugaratnam has stressed the importance of Singapore balancing its books over the long term, in a Budget 2014/15 speech that echoed concerns raised just a few days ago in Hong Kong's equivalent. Already, with increased social and healthcare spending, the Government is forecasting... 

An artist’s rendering of a Chinese real estate project in Malaysia’s Iskandar area (11 Mar)   Late last month one of China’s largest state-run developers announced plans to invest $3.26 billion to develop hotels and homes in southern Malaysia, just across the border from Singapore. But lost among the press releases and...