Where else can you buy your home in 5 years?

COST OF LIVING: SHELTER
 
Where else can you buy your home in 5 years?
 
I REFER to Tuesday’s letter by Senior Minister of State for Finance and Transport, Mrs Lim Hwee Hua, ‘Singapore not necessarily costlier than Sweden”.
 
I too was surprised by the claim by Ms Heng Siew Cheng that it is cheaper (and better) to [...]

Kampung: days …:

Kampung: days …:
 
:Water restored to 32 unitsin Jurong West after 3 days
 
FOR three days, Kamaruzzaman Mahat, 14, has been packing dinner home — not because his mother does not cook, but because the taps at home have run dry.
 
Water supply to his block at Jurong West Avenue 5 had been disrupted since [...]

Stockbroking partners bank on property projects

The Dream Team
 
Stockbroking partners bank on property projects
 
DESPITE its ups and downs, propertyappears to be the main investment path for those with surplus cash who want to diversify from their existing businesses. So it was with stockbrokers Han Seng Juan and David Loh Kim Kang when they founded Centurion Properties a couple of [...]

Positive signs for ION

Positive signs for ION
 
With half its shopping space snapped up, it is on track to reach target for launch
 
RETAILERS have already bagged 50 per cent of shopping space at ION Orchard, a highly-anticipated development slated to open beside Orchard MRT station next year.
 
As for the remaining half of the 663,000 square foot of new retail [...]

Prime space for art at the heart of Orchard

Prime space for art at the heart of Orchard
 
IT’S art for art’s sake at the swanky new mall being built at Orchard Turn, thanks to a decision to devote a large chunk of pricey retail space to a gallery.
The gallery on the fourth floor of Ion Orchard will feature contemporary art and design by [...]

Govt defers projects worth $1.7b

Govt defers projects worth $1.7b 
 
Move to ease pressure on building costs
 
THE Government is deferring another $1.7 billion of public sector construction projects to ease pressure on red-hot building costs in the next two years.
This is the third time since November that public projects have been postponed amid high demand for building [...]

Govt to delay additional S$1.7b worth of public sector projects

Govt to delay additional S$1.7b worth of public sector projects
 
SINGAPORE: The government has decided to postpone an additional S$1.7 billion worth of public sector projects to further ease pressure on construction resources in Singapore.
 
The government had earlier announced that it would postpone about S$3 billion worth of public sector projects to after 2009.
 
With [...]

Govt to defer $1.7bil of construction projects

Govt to defer $1.7bil of construction projects
 
Singapore’s government is deferring a further 1.7 billion dollars worth of construction projects as material and labour costs rose as much as 5 percent in the first quarter.
 
National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan gave the update in a parliamentary written reply issued today.
 
The move brings the total value of [...]

Coming nearer to residential areas: dorms for foreign workers

Coming nearer to residential areas: dorms for foreign workers
 
New dormitory sites for foreign workers may be located nearer residential areas as Singapore becomes more built up, said National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan.
 
In his written reply to a question from Sembawang GRC MP Lim Wee Kiak in Parliament on Monday, Mr Mah urged Singaporeans [...]

Govt property vacant for years

Govt property vacant for years 
Auditor-General’s annual report raps agencies for not ‘maximising usage’ of state-owned buildings
 
GOVERNMENT chalets left to go to seed and unleased for over 14 years and other buildings and tracts of land left empty for years on end - these have come to light in the Auditor-General’s annual report.
Mr Lim [...]