27 January 12 | The Business Times by Teh Shi Ning
(SINGAPORE) Industrial production surged 12.6 per cent in December from a year ago - close to double the 6.4 per cent growth the market was expecting - and spurred talk of an upward revision to advance estimates of Q4 and 2011 GDP growth. Economists now think Singapore's economy grew closer to 5 per cent last year, up from the official advance estimate of 4.8 per cent announced earlier this...
19 January 12 | The Business Times by Victoria Ho And Edwin Loh
SONY plans to groom a crop of business leaders in Singapore, with the opening of its Sony University here. The campus is Sony's first outside Japan, and the Japanese electronics giant plans to invest approximately $4.5 million over the next three years in the facility. Narihiko Uemura, managing director of Sony Electronics Asia Pacific and Sony Electronics (Singapore), told BizIT that the company...
19 January 12 | The Straits Times
JAPANESE giant Sony yesterday launched a leadership training centre in Singapore, its first outside Japan. Located in Jurong's International Business Park, the 3,362 sq ft facility will train middle and senior executives for positions in Asia-Pacific and emerging markets such as India, China, Vietnam and the Middle East. 'The business in Asia-Pacific and emerging economic zones is very, very...