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(22 Aug) - Singapore's long-held status as a financial market safe haven could come under pressure from potential risk of higher rates amid the imminent tapering of U.S. monetary stimulus. The country is a favorite among foreign investors looking for fairly low-risk stocks that pay high dividends. But the prospect of a tightening... 

During the first five years following the purchase of a flat, also known as the minimum occupation period, a flat owner cannot own, buy or invest in a private residential property ("Different rules on flat ownership" by Mr Daniel Tong Wee Jin; Aug 14). This rule serves to reinforce the home ownership principle underlining our... 

Map: Eurodollers/Wikimedia Commons; Field: Shutterstock (22 Aug) - Ever since May, when a Chinese company agreed to buy US pork giant Smithfield, reportedly with an eye toward ramping up US pork imports to China, I've been looking into the simultaneously impressive and vexed state of China's food production system. In short,...