Dubai

As the world changes in the pandemic, what is the impact on Singapore?

LONDON/DUBAI (Dec 3): Standard Chartered Plc is cutting jobs in Dubai and key markets including Singapore as it looks to curb expenses, people familiar with the matter said.

SINGAPORE (Dec 27): DBS is planning to expand its private banking business the Middle East over the next five years, using its Dubai office as the regional hub.

(Dec 19): The private-banking arm of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. is adding more staff in Dubai, as the Singapore lender seeks a greater role managing the money of the Middle East’s wealthy and of Indians living overseas.

(Sept 27): Talk about rising above the masses.

SINGAPORE (Sept 7): After enjoying a decade of unrivalled growth and earnings stability, the Middle East’s “super-connectors” – Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways – have hit some serious turbulence this year.

SINGAPORE (April 11): Rotary Engineering, the regional oil and gas engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) and maintenance services value chain provider, has secured two overseas tank storage projects worth more than US$120 million ($170 million).  

SINGAPORE (Nov 21): Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm and a business unit of China’s Alibaba Group, says it aims to open four new data centres by end-2016 in the Middle East, Europe, Australia and Japan.