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Sanctions, capital curbs, untested legal arena hold back foreign businesses

Temasek Holdings , the smaller but more visible of Singapore 's two sovereign funds, is moving into a new phase with its investment strategy, and could look more like Blackstone Group , another $160 billion institution, which has grown from a focused private equity firm to a global asset manager. Read more...

Foreign investors are bemoaning a new law in Indonesia that strips them of control over mining assets, the latest in a rash of regulations that reflect what they see as growing ‘resource nationalism’.

Twelve other applications rejected, reflecting the government’s stringent standards

Singapore commodity firm Olam International sees limited further downside to ICE arabica coffee futures prices, with global supply and demand expected to be balanced until mid-2013, its managing director of coffee said yesterday.

Shares of Malaysian-based casual dining operator Chaswood Resources Holding were robust in their trading debut on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) Catalist yesterday.

A Malaysian restaurant operator that aims to be the leading casual dining player in South-east Asia by 2015 begins trading on the Singapore Exchange today with shares issued at 30 cents a share.

Mohd Wira Dani Bin Abdul Daim, son of former Malaysian finance minister Daim Zainuddin, is making a $4 million investment in Singapore-listed Asiasons WFG Financial.

Today is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New York for 10 years, and now in London — I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, its people and its identity. And I can honestly say that the environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it.

The young banker whose dramatic public resignation stung Goldman Sachs this week joins officials from every corner of the government in questioning whether the august investment house deals honestly with all its clients. Read more...

Goldman Sachs faced an unprecedented assault from one of its own on Wednesday after a banker published a withering resignation letter in the New York Times, calling the Wall Street titan a "toxic" place where managing directors referred to their own clients as "muppets." Read more...

Construction work will begin towards year-end, and the hub is expected to be completed and operational in 2015

Singapore’s first Indian broker is suspending its securities trading and research operations here, just over a year after joining the exchange.